Gaby Hinsliff, political editor
Sunday April 9, 2006
The Observer

Rogue drivers are evading thousands of speeding tickets by exploiting a loophole in the law that enables them to ignore roadside cameras.

One motorist has been clocked speeding more than 100 times without being caught, while another has got away with driving at 119mph in a built-up area.

The phenomenon has prompted police to call for a change in the law. The scam involves offenders registering their cars at one of a network of ‘mass-mailing’ addresses used legitimately by businesses instead of at their own homes. When the driver triggers a camera, the penalty notice is sent to the mass-mailing address. Police seeking the motorist find only a shopfront where nobody lives.

Speed cameras generated more than £114m in fines last year and are credited by safety campaigners with saving lives. Figures released last week revealed that the speed of most drivers had dropped as the number of cameras had increased.

Tory frontbencher Andrew Selous, who is campaigning for a change in the law, said uncontrolled speeding by individuals with no fear of being caught risked deaths and serious injuries. ‘There is the danger, and there is the sheer injustice of it,’ he said. ‘If you or I are caught doing 35mph in a 30mph limit, we get three points on our licences and a £60 fine. People may resent that, but understand there is a reason for it.

But there are segments of the population who have wised up to clever ways of getting round this, which is extremely dangerous and downright unfair.’ […]

A Home Office spokesman said the national identity register being introduced to back up planned ID cards would help, and added: ‘We are examining how serious the issue is.’ A Department for Transport spokes-man said the DVLA database was ‘97.5 per cent accurate’. […]

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1750138,00.html

No no no, you fucking morons.

The ‘sheer injustice’ is that the cameras are there harvesting you in the first place, not that there are people who are smarter than you who have managed to evade the shears.

They are not doing it to ‘cheat’ speed cameras, they are doing it to drive freely on the roads that they own and pay for. Whose side are you on you idiots?! And once again, how this article is not related to the NIR and how people will corrupt, avoid and abuse it is staggering. They simply repeat unquestioningly a home orifice blurt of bullshit.

Let me spell it out for you; people will be using these tactics and more if the NIR is not stopped. They will be justified in doing so, and it will be only the stupid and the sheeple that will be caught out and made slaves by it.

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