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Cash and cameras
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Stuart Thomas has been reviewing the way the gentlemen of the press have treated transport recently; not least the furore over maps and speed cameras...
"Our main message is that drivers can certainly pull over onto the hard shoulder and retrieve an item when it is safe to do so. But road users should contact the emergency services if there is a threat to the safety of others," a police spokesman told a Daily Mail reporter. Fair advice indeed, but it's hard not to imagine a certain envy in his response when you realise he was commenting on news that motorists had risked life and limb on the M3 to help themselves to a share of an £11,000 "scramble. It seems a car had run over a rucksack full of £20 notes dropped by a motorcycle passenger some drivers even stopped on the fast lane to grab the lucre.
No accidents were reported, but with rumours spreading that the money was the result of a drug deal, the chances that somewhere, someone closer to the source of the money has had an "accident" following the spillage remain quite high. ining £20 notes M3 drivers "El park in the fast Lane i4=a I-4 to pick up it lost money 1;1. 747474" — Transport 2000 and Brake were two of the road safety groups quick to castigate the M for revealing the location of speed cameras in its new road atlas. "Irresponsible in the extreme,thundered Transport 2000's Steve Hounsham in London's Metro freesheet, apparently oblivious of the fact that this information is freely available elsewhere and, according to the AA, publicising speedtraps in this way has the backing of regional police forces and the Department for Transport.
"The only people interested in the location of speed cameras are those who break speed limits," Hounsham added.
on dangerous stretches of road which serves as a further deterrent to speeding. Is it too controversial to point out that these well-meaning organisations are playing straight into the hands of those people who want all Gatsos ripped out and who claim that secret units intended to catch and not deter are simply money spinners? That'll help road safety.