New Speeding Check by Police
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A NEW method of checking speed
ing was described by a police witness at Melton Mowbray magistrates' court last week when two drivers of heavy goods vehicles were charged with exceeding 20 m.p.h.
A constable said that he was travelling along Thistleton Road, Wymondham, on October 25, when a lorry passed him in the opposite direction. The witness said that he threw out a bag of dye on to the road to serve as a marker and started a stop watch. He then followed the lorry for 3 1/10 miles and overtook it. throwing out another marker and stopping the. watch. He calculated the average speed of the lorry to be 31.2 m.p.h.
The lorry driver pleaded guilty. He was fined £3 and his licence was endorsed.
Another driver was said to have travelled at an average speed of 36 m.p.h. He was fined £5 and his licence was endorsed.
A police superintendent said that the marker method had been introduced as all others had failed to reduce speeding alone country roads.