QUOTE (conord @ Apr 18 2011, 02:31 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>x2 i see these lads in stupid spots clearly making money but to be honest that first one looks to be justified. a long straight road like that, with no speed bumps and lined on both sides by homes seems to be exactly the places to have these.
in waterford we regularly get cops out doing speed checks on a dual carriageway with solid conrete divide and 60KMPH speed limit. As far as i'm aware noone has ever even been injured in an accident there never mind killed. complain about that.
Right.
In fairness, going by your location you can't be expected to know the area, but every house along that road would have front gardens about 100ft long and 90% have electric gates: it is an affluent area and there are very few young kids living there-the average house price is probably well over €1m. Just beyond the van, there are no houses on one side, just a wide path by the sea, seperated from the road by a wall and about 2-3 feet higher than the road. Pretty difficult for a child to accidentally run out in front of a vehicle. Anyway, this is a road, where vehicles have right of way, not a bloody footpath-people seem to think that if a child runs out in front of a car, the car shouldn't have been there?
Besides that, there is a major traffic light controlled cross roads between the first picture and the van location, meaning you are not likely to be screaming down there at all.
Fact is, speed alone does not kill-inappropriate speed for the weather/road conditions or speed with drink/drugs taken, speed with defective vehicle/road surface, speed with mobile phone use DO! What does a van do to help eliminate these? Feck all!
Oh....and it was 10 to 8 on a Sunday morning....loads of kids about....