The police **** me off with speed camera placement. Just last night I went out to see a film which ended at 10pm give or take. At 10:30 I was driving home on a local dual carriageway. This particular dual carriageway is about a mile long and has a limit of 40mph the whole way down which quite frankly is lunacy anyway (For any locals, its the dual carriageway out of Wakefield towards the M1 that passes the Wetherby Whaler towards Pugnies, I'd been to Cineworld).
Fortunately for me I was in no rush and was driving pretty much on the limit, possibly a nats under. The road was deserted, and I mean not a car for half a mile in front or behind. Half way down the dual carriageway, a police van, hidden essentially in the bushes, with two policemen holding a laser around the corner of a tree.
At that time of night on that road 60mph would be perfectly acceptable and yet you could have had points on your license for doing 45mph. Complete *******s IMO. Are they there during daylight hours when people are cutting each other up? Are they hell.
I've been driving for 10 years (27 now). I have been prosecuted for speeding once, 37mph as I drove out of a village. I had driven at 30mph right through the village, passed the last house and sped up as the 60mph sign approached. Police van with a radar, again hidden in the bushes. I mean seriously, that can only be there to pick up the numbers, it sure as hell wasn't for safety.
Did I break the law? Technically yes. Did that incident protect the public? Did it hell. The only purpose of that fine and 3 points (4 years ago now) was to give me a distrust of traffic officers.