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Hadecs3 speed cameras are the new top traffic cops

A ‘stealth’ camera on the M25 is outstripping traditional speed traps...
Published 24 February 2015
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News: Complaints spark motorway 'stealth' camera rethink...

New motorway “stealth” cameras could be painted yellow to make them more conspicuous after complaints from drivers that their use is underhand...
Published 02 February 2015
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Letters of the week, January 25

This week: Smart motorways, parent-and-child parking (again), and illegal foreign cars.
Published 27 January 2015
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Drivers warned to stick to 70mph as motorway speed...

Until now breaches of the national speed limit have been largely ignored. But smart technology is changing that — and the first tickets have already...
Published 12 January 2015
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Cameras could penalise motorway tailgaters

First they were used to catch speeders; then to collar drivers who crossed red lights, strayed into bus lanes or stopped in box junctions. Now cameras...
Published 03 September 2014
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News: Roy “Chubby” Brown fined for reading newspaper...

Reading a newspaper at the wheel while driving is no joke, as comedian Roy “Chubby” Brown has found to his cost.
Published 22 August 2014
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News: Higher fuel prices and speed cameras rein in...

CONGESTION AND roadworks can reduce traffic to a crawl on motorways but away from these irritations and on rare, free-flowing stretches, fewer drivers...
Published 06 June 2014
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News: Safety charity urges crackdown on speeders after...

A road safety charity is urging the government to get tougher with speeding motorists after a driver on the M25 was clocked travelling at 149mph by...
Published 28 May 2014
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News: Safe Swiss, bonkers Belgians, perilous Poles

Drivers are twice as likely to be killed on French roads as on British ones, and Belgian highways are almost three times more dangerous, research...
Published 12 May 2014
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News: Speeding costs drivers at least £90m a year...

UK drivers paid around £49m in speeding fines and an extra £41m in insurance premiums in the past 12 months, thanks to their speeding habit.
Published 02 May 2014
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Your motoring problems solved

Driving on the M1 at restricted speed through roadworks the other night, I began wondering whether average-speed cameras still function in the dark.
Published 31 October 2013