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1. Congratulations to the Daily Star
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
...ll say.   So there you have it. A great way to avoid being fined and/or losing your licence is to be caught wearing a police uniform. On duty, off duty, racing to an emeregency or not. They don&#...

2. Huge cost of speed cam abuse
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
This is from the Sunday Sun in Newcastle... FURIOUS motorists sick of being caught by speed cameras are costing North tax payers thousands of pounds by vandalising them. More than a dozen of the con

...n has admitted vandalising 11 cameras, putting them out of action and ensuring speeding drivers cannot be caught. While some motorists support the group and its actions, road safety campaigners have ...

4. 2 in 5 drink drivers is 'foreign'
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
Is anyone really surprised at this statistic? Most of those being caught are from Eastern Europe where the same standards to drinking and driving don't seem to apply. Well done for the police in c

...lack and white. Instead, they claim, the laws are 'too complex' to fulfill. Now they've been caught out and have to pay back fines (and before people start bleating that someone was parke...

...; speed within those neighbourhoods is just foolish. What will that prove? Idiot joy riders won't get caught, someone knows of a short cut could be banned and people without licences won't car...

7. Town votes to ditch speed cameras
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
...ospitals and on our High Streets. But they weren't. Instead they were placed where motorists would be caught. That is where safe, skilled drivers going at a speed for their environment. Drivers wh...

8. Captain Gatso: Cyclists must obey the law
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
... be forced to wear a bib bearing a unique number whenever they use the public highway. Then they could be caught on CCTV cameras, just as motorists are, when they ignore no-entry signs and jump red li...

Drivers paid out £1.7m in one year after being caught speeding in Lancashire. The money, paid in fees for speed awareness courses is in addition to the fines levied by speed cameras – whi

10. Captain Gatso: Upcoming fuel protest
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
...to take this up?  There's a lot of anger among drivers, especially the poorly paid who are being caught out by the spiralling fuel prices. Bus prices are also having to rise so this does conc...

11. Speed cameras in their sights
(News/Police and The Law)
Many of us will have been caught by speed cameras. But do they reduce accidents or are they just a revenue raiser? Reporter Miles Godfrey speaks to a group of campaigners so convinced speed cameras d

...and those committing motoring offences such as driving with no insurance, road tax or even an MOT will be caught, either by patrols or by a fine sent through the post. Assistant Chief Constable Dave ...

...archaic speed limit.   Speed campaign nabs 1,800 motorists in a week More than 1,800 motorists were caught speeding in Suffolk during a week-long campaign. Almost 1,500 were caught by police off...

14. 1 in every 3 drivers is fined annually
(News/Police and The Law)
...s are minor, leading to concerns motorists are being used as 'cash cows' One in three drivers is caught each year by a parking warden or speed camera. The total rises to more than four in te...

...ce being banned for only two speeding offences under a draconian shake-up of road safety laws. Motorists caught going well over the limit would receive six points - double the current penalty - and a...

The number of drivers caught speeding in Northamptonshire has more than halved since speed awareness courses were introduced to target the problem. Since 2001, motorists caught driving slightly above

...sts were targeted by a new hand-held speed gun bought to help tackle speeding through villages. Officers caught dozens of motorists breaking the limit in the first three weeks of the scheme and issue...

...Monday morning, vigilantes also eliminated the notorious camera in Harpenden, Hertfordshire that had been caught in 2006 issuing speeding tickets where the speed limit was illegally set too low, the H...

...etropolitan Police, turned on the blue lights of his police-issue Range Rover after realising he had been caught by a speed camera. After browsing the police computer, he then claimed to have been ch...

MOTORISTS in Lothian and Borders are more likely to be caught by speed cameras than anywhere else in Scotland. New figures show the region has overtaken Strathclyde as the country's speeding fine

21. CAPTAIN GATSO: Axe the tax
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
...torists who will lose out. Don't register your car and use the roads freely (you are unlikely to get caught) and none of this nonsense will be of interest to you. I am the Campaigns Director for...

...ON after driver proves UK's most profitable speed camera is illegal due to poorly-lit signs Drivers caught by Britain's most profitable speed camera are set to win refunds totalling £1...

23. More speed cameras for Norfolk
(News/Police and The Law)
...y gets a new wave of digital cameras - meaning those flouting the law at certain hotspots will risk being caught around the clock. Until now only six of the county's 19 fixed safety cameras have ...

A disciplinary investigation has been launched after a police speed camera operator was caught napping on the job in Northampton. The sleepy Northamptonshire Police support worker was snapped dozing

...following a legitmate course of action is just plain wrong. Let's get one thing straight - if you are caught speeding, and you were speeding, then there's very little that can be done. Captain...

...an that British motorists driving overseas are more likely to be sent penalties in the post when they are caught by speed and red light cameras. At present police rarely pursue drivers of foreign-reg...

27. Speed cameras fines hit record high
(News/Police and The Law)
....this time it's in Australia! ALMOST nine out of 10 motorists caught speeding in the network of fixed speed cameras in last year's record fine haul were only minimally over the speed limit.

28. Camera's got a blindspot for speeding cars
(News/Police and The Law)
...means speeding motorists using the fast lane can get away with driving over the 40mph limit without being caught on camera. Hampshire's Safer Roads Partnership, which is in charge of speed camera...

...llegedly dared each other to see how far away from their base in south Wales they could get without being caught. They even allegedly took photographs of each other at their various seaside locations...

...ip is refunding around 3,500 fines and removing the subsequent penalty points which were issued to people caught by the camera in Lower Luton Road in Harpenden, between August 19, 2004, and August 25,...

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