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Did you know that recent Government legislation changing the Freedom of Information Acts gives you access to speed camera offences registered within the last 12 months and placed on a freely accessible website?

Did you know that every time your car goes even a mile or so over the speed limit, it is registered and placed on the database? They only send a ticket if you are way over, OR (and here is the rub.....if you receive over 20 near misses). YOu can now check how many you have against your car's registered number.

It will ask you for a passord - just click on the 'need a login - click here link, and you'll be given one in a pop-up window. In the top right hand corner there is a 'click-on' window, and it even shows the picture taken by the camera!!

http://www.e-database.co.uk

It's truly horrifying, this Big Brother society we live in! I'm shocked and stunned

I'd like to know who was gallivanting around Cambridge in my car on Tuesday. I blame 2Legs.

He had my Fabia in Middlesborough on the same day, you know!

Morally, I have no objection. Ethically speaking, I'm a reluctant car owner who knows they're Bad and Wrong but happens to love driving.

My objection's on a practical level. Not many of my friends own cars, and in an effort to spread things around a bit (and make it unnecessary for them to get their own, as none of us need one to commute) I've added a few of them to my insurance, and let them borrow the motor if they want to go somewhere I'm not using it. So it would be hugely unfair if 20 near misses got chalked up into one ticket seeing as by the law of averages probably only a third of them would be mine.

On the other hand, have you tried clicking on the 'view picture' link? I did so after checking my own car, and it had come up with 37mph in a 30 zone in Cambridge on Saturday. As I'd lent it to my mate to drive to a wedding in Nort Yorkshire and he'd driven up there on Friday, I thought I'd better check it out. And I think it's a hoax

To confirm it, then I tried my old car's registration, which was a 1966 Riley Elf that I'd sold to a bloke in East Anglia. That came up with a speed infringement of 81.2mph somewhere in Cleveland. I'd be surprised if that car was *capable* of 81.2mph, frankly.

I followed that with the registration of my first car - PJD476R. I *know* it can't be out on the road, because I stove the nearside wing in way beyond economic repair as it was only worth about £200 at the time, and I sold it for scrap to a bloke who needed the gearbox out of it. It came up with the same one in Cambridge as for my own car.

Ladies and gentlemen, we've been had

That website wasn't created on April 1st, was it?

No idea! I found it on another website this morning and nicked it.

I was most disgruntled as I *never* speed, and certainly never get flashed at speed cameras! I've got a shiny sparkly (if slightly old and crumpled) clean licence.

in the Netherlands some one destroyed speed camera with a bomb.

in my opinion this has nothing to do with big brother. blame it on the people who are notorious serial speeder(s) they are responsible for this.

if the police stops a speeder often the police gets abuse they should catch criminals, but some of the speeders are criminals. if a speeder drives within city limits your kid could be hurt or killed. a change in law should speeder make chargeable with atempted murder even tho no people were hurt.

the offenders are to blame!

I think offenders should have speedlimter build their cars.

I think you should post this on Askh2g2 and see how much outrage it provokes before someone spots it...

Although I suspect that was what you were trying to do here, no?

I agree that speeders are criminals. It's as if they are saying that they can decide which laws they want to obey and which they don't. In the UK they can't put up a speed camera until FOUR people have died on that spot through road traffic accidents. Then people say it's about making money. I'd rather see the fine removed and the points increased. And more checks done to stop people giving spouses names as the driver to stop them losing their licence.

Traveller in Time only once flashed for speeding some years ago
"I think it would be a luxuory, I had to pay nearly a hundred Euro, but did not get to see the expensive picture."

Yes! I was.

I'll pop it into PR as well, see who we can catch.

I have come to the concluesion as someone who drives pretty much every day on the A14 which is renound for it's accidents that it is not the speed that people are driving at thaat causes the problems but the fact that as a general rule people are driving at about a 1/4 of the recommended distance between vehicles. this is noticeable as most mornings on the A14 the traffic is generally doing 60ish due to the weight of traffic yet consistantly we get accidents that shut the whole road and sometimes even cause fatalities, because people are trying to cut across in to spaces that aren't there. And then on top of that every one behind is too close so can't stop in time.

If people just observed the two second rule we'd be a whole lot better off.

Traveller in Time counting seconds
"But what do you expect ? Driving sixty in a row of cars is just like being parked, you do not park with more then a car length inbetween.

The only problem comes when people insist on being parked on another lane then they are. "

That was brilliant!

Now, who can I nab

Mol

hmmmmmm

ooh, a newbie! Welcome to h2g2 BeaupeeP! I hope that you are enjoying it - how did you find your way to my journal?

All this will be one with Ninevah and Tyre.

Do not worry. Soon we will all be dead as will be those what persecute us and their children and their parents and the guy what fixed the dents.


BeaupeeP

I found this by accident, how else in this weird place

BeaupeeP. - I spose this is another automated pseudo intelligence questioning me.