160 people caught speeding in Oxford in 90 minutes
A few months back I popped out for 30 mins from site to get my lunch, sat in my usual spot on the stone wall, and had the pleasure of watching around 70% of drivers driving along St Giles in Oxford be pulled over for speeding.
So, it’s a 20 mph zone down there and is usually a bit of a race to accelerate out to the faster roads to the motorway. It’s a perfectly straight road with an amazing line of sight to where this man is sometimes standing with a speed gun.
It’s quite difficult to see him with his camouflage jacket on which blends perfectly with the local limestone surroundings.
In an hour-and-a-half operation, 159 offences were recorded by officers, the fastest being 45mph.
If you can’t see the guy in the high vis then you really shouldn’t be speeding. I mean you shouldn’t be speeding anyway but it’s more worrisome that you can’t react quickly enough at whatever speed you’re doing to the blindingly obvious man at the end of the road.
But yeah, bloody cyclists eh!
Via @AsEasyAsRiding