Post by Big Blue on Oct 4, 2022 14:34:10 GMT
As opposed to hi-jacking John's thread, one about the benefits of actual policing vs. camera-led enforcement.
On my way to the gym today an Audi S3 of newish shape went through the Epsom one way system a bit untidily. The thing that annoyed me most was pulling into the middle "ahead-only" lane on the back of the one-way then pulling away too fast on the green light to turn left towards Ashstead. The driver then turned left into Woodcote Road (where I was going) and continued to drive at some margin above the limit. Almost everyone speeds in Epsom so I'm not picking that particular bit of speeding up but at the zebra crossing from the duck pond into the hospital staff car park the driver didn't stop for a pedestrian. I was that far behind at this point that I only needed to back off as said individual crossed safely. As I continued up the road towards the Club, I reached the s-bend where the road becomes named Wilmerhatch Lane, a 30mph road with very expensive houses on one side and woodland then farmland on the other. The Audi was nowhere to be seen so I assumed it had turned off into Woodcote Side because it couldn't have gone that far over the limit.
As I came alongside the Club estate walls I saw an officer in hi-viz stepping out of the bushes as he pulled said Audi over. FUCK ME! The driver must have been doing 60+ to be that far ahead at that point with him having time to pull her over. As I passed I laughed loudly and was surprised to see a peroxide blonde late 20s-early 30s lady driver.
The point being if he hadn't been there she would have carried on towards the downs like a maniac unchallenged. Granted I'm sure that was a 60mph when I was a kid, but she was never old enough to know it as anything other than a 30 zone. No camera ever caught anyone fucking up a pedestrian on a zebra crossing or being in the wrong lane at a set of lights. That section even has signs advising of the frequent police patrols, no doubt required due to the enthusiasm of my fellow members as they leave the country club for home to assure their wives they have been in the office all afternoon and nowhere near the golf course.....
On my way to the gym today an Audi S3 of newish shape went through the Epsom one way system a bit untidily. The thing that annoyed me most was pulling into the middle "ahead-only" lane on the back of the one-way then pulling away too fast on the green light to turn left towards Ashstead. The driver then turned left into Woodcote Road (where I was going) and continued to drive at some margin above the limit. Almost everyone speeds in Epsom so I'm not picking that particular bit of speeding up but at the zebra crossing from the duck pond into the hospital staff car park the driver didn't stop for a pedestrian. I was that far behind at this point that I only needed to back off as said individual crossed safely. As I continued up the road towards the Club, I reached the s-bend where the road becomes named Wilmerhatch Lane, a 30mph road with very expensive houses on one side and woodland then farmland on the other. The Audi was nowhere to be seen so I assumed it had turned off into Woodcote Side because it couldn't have gone that far over the limit.
As I came alongside the Club estate walls I saw an officer in hi-viz stepping out of the bushes as he pulled said Audi over. FUCK ME! The driver must have been doing 60+ to be that far ahead at that point with him having time to pull her over. As I passed I laughed loudly and was surprised to see a peroxide blonde late 20s-early 30s lady driver.
The point being if he hadn't been there she would have carried on towards the downs like a maniac unchallenged. Granted I'm sure that was a 60mph when I was a kid, but she was never old enough to know it as anything other than a 30 zone. No camera ever caught anyone fucking up a pedestrian on a zebra crossing or being in the wrong lane at a set of lights. That section even has signs advising of the frequent police patrols, no doubt required due to the enthusiasm of my fellow members as they leave the country club for home to assure their wives they have been in the office all afternoon and nowhere near the golf course.....