[WillowTheWhisp]

Excellent Jambutty. Perhaps people would do well to remind themselves of that from time to time. How many people who have passed their test will tell you "Green means go, red means stop and amber means get ready to stop."

We were once stopped by the police for "speeding" along Hyndburn Road when other cars were actually overtaking us but as we were (even according to our own speedo) doing more than 30mph at the time we really didn't feel justified in complaining about it.

I do think sometimes it's taken to extremes and there are also many other causes of accidents. Sometimes constant checking of your speedo can mean you don't have your eyes on the road and could miss a child darting out in front of you for instance. We've had that too - a kid lying horizontal on a skateboard careering down the pavement suddenly hit a stone or something which sent him off course and into the road right in front of us. It frightened me to death.

There is also the point that some of these hand held devices have been proved to be inaccurate and even take a small movement of the arm holding the thing into account and add it to the speed of a vehicle being 'clocked'. But wanting to know where speed cameras are just so you can avoid them and exceed the limit elsewhere is not a particularly brilliant idea.