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Driver speeding past child cyclist (Devon and Cornwall Roads Policing Team)Driver caught speeding past child cyclist at an "eye-watering" 61mph in a 30mph zone outside school
A driver has been caught speeding at 61mph in a 30mph zone, just a few feet away from a child cyclist, with the police confirming that a prosecution will take place, while also identifying 280 other instances of motorists speeding or using mobile phones in one hour.
Devon and Cornwall Roads Policing Team shared the image of the driver taken from the speed gun, caught driving a white Mercedes at double the legal speed limit outside Hayes School in Paignton, passing a child cycling on the edge of the road.
The policing team wrote: "A busy morning on the Paignton Police patch. Enforcing outside Hayes School and on Dartmouth Road, where this driver was caught at an eyewatering 61mph in a 30mph, with a child on a bicycle just feet away‼️ Driver will be prosecuted".
Adrian Leisk, Head of Road Safety at Devon & Cornwall Police, said: "Our South Devon team identifying, yet again, that speeding drivers in Torbay are not expecting to be held to account."
Our South Devon team identifying, yet again, that speeding drivers in Torbay are not expecting to be held to account. This is all the more concerning when you read https://t.co/Uazq63iuwk where Torbay is ranked number 1 for all the wrong reasons https://t.co/LXr73CflS1
— Adrian Leisk (@Adrianleisk) August 24, 2023
He added that this was made all the more concerning given the fact that the borough of Torbay, comprising of Paignton, ranked first in the list of places where casualty reduction efforts have been the least effective, according to the GB Road Performance Safety Index report.
The future projection data also indicated that without significant intervention, Torbay will have a 'killed or seriously injured' (KSI) casualty rate that is 3.45 times the target rate for 2030.
The team was not just policing in one location. A person asked the social media account of the roads policing team if they were enforcing speed between Marldon Rd and Marldon Cross roundabout, mentioning that it was "like a racetrack going north".
Devon and Cornwall Roads Policing Team replied saying that they had completed an hour of speed and mobile phone enforcement at rush hour, identifying over 280 offences.
Hi Kevin, yes on that same afternoon I completed an hour of speed/mobile phone enforcement at rush hour. Over 280 offences identified 👍🏼 - 31027^
— Devon and Cornwall Roads Policing Team 🚔 (@DC_RPT) August 24, 2023
A police spokesperson told DevonLive: "The #NoExcuses campaign was developed to highlight some of the most unbelievable reasons given by drivers for committing one of the ‘fatal five’ offences by motorists travelling on the roads of Devon and Cornwall."
> Speeding red-light jumping driver who almost hit schoolchild fined – but not banned
Earlier this month, road safety stakeholders in West Midlands, led by the region's walking and cycling commissioner Adam Tranter, introduced a new package of tougher measures to tackle dangerous driving.
The meeting also cited the aim to "target the most dangerous drivers" with "relentless enforcement of the rules of the road".
Just this week, new high-tech bi-directional speed cameras were installed in Devon and Cornwall. The new cameras, placed in areas including Drakewells and Gunnislake, have already caught thousands of drivers in just the first few days of a trial period in the south west.
The pilot project saw four of the new cameras installed with 3,280 drivers issued tickets in only two weeks. One of the cameras has been activated about 120 times per day in the first two weeks, while another detected a driver travelling at 73mph on a 30mph road.
Adwitiya joined road.cc in 2023 as a news writer after graduating with a masters in journalism from Cardiff University. His dissertation focused on active travel, which soon threw him into the deep end of covering everything related to the two-wheeled tool, and now cycling is as big a part of his life as guitars and football. He has previously covered local and national politics for Voice Wales, and also likes to writes about science, tech and the environment, if he can find the time. Living right next to the Taff trail in the Welsh capital, you can find him trying to tackle the brutal climbs in the valleys.
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Apart from the fact that it apparently looks cool and makes you more aero as a driver the low driving position (which is entirely a choice given the adaptability of modern car seats) makes it harder for the police to prove who was driving. Given 61 in a 30 should result in a ban my money is on the registered keeper taking points for the failure to identify.
They should get enough points to ban the keeper, then! Not knowing who is driving your car - unless you had reported it stolen some significant time before - should be a serious offence, IMO.
It is fairy serious - 6 points and a fine, but there is indeed a case for the punishment to be upped to the equivalent of the offence being covered up - which would focus minds.
Hear, hear.
I see more and more people driving that have their eyes barely above the top of the steering wheel, then when they're parking, they're leaning right up to be able to see the front (assuming they're not using a camera or just not bothered). It never seems to occur to them that they need to be able to see properly when driving on the road. Unfortunately all the convenience aids in cars now seem to mean that everyone is so used to the car doing all the work for them that the driving has gotten far worse.
Thought I was the only one who had noticed this. It's not confined to a particular age group or vehicle type either. Have been getting concerned about the numbers of drivers whose head is barely above their steering wheel or door panel.
Anything but significant prison time for this driver would be an insult to all road users.
Car should be crushed, license should be permenantly revoked, driver should serve multiple years in prison. The only reason this ridiculously dangerous driving didn't kill a child was because the child was a good enough cyclist to avoid them.
Edit - I must have responded exactly as the troll was (I assume) banned. Due to the uniquely terrible way this site has been bolted together, It's just appended my reponse to the next comment down, which is why this comment doesn't have anything to do with one it's replying to.
To be fair, "... it's probably not a child" has got to be one of the funniest takes Nige has ever come out with.
But yeah, if you scale the cyclist on the left up so that their wheel is the same height as the cyclist on the right, they're still just over half the size of the cyclist on the right. If (as is highly likely) they're riding a bike with smaller wheels, they'd be even smaller in comparison. The cyclist on the left is very obvioulsy a child.
There is only one uniquely terrible thing around here and it's not the way this site has been bolted together
Small - far away
Their banishment took my reply with it. I postulated that if they couldn't tell if it that was an adult or a child, that may explain their terrible takes on NMOTD over the years.
I asked if they had tried not being a wazzock. Seems like that was the straw that broke the camel's back....
Even a child knows this.
*an alleged child
Either a child, or a very odd looking man in an XXXL helmet.
It looks to me like there are three cyclists. With one mostly obscured by the guy at the front.
Is this a sock puppet account?
It does look odd around their left leg - almost like there is a blue shoe slightly above a white shoe and a front wheel in the midst of a turn.
Perhaps another child (can't imagine another adult being some completely covered by the guy in front)?
Could also just be some rubbish by the side of the road.
Perhaps a smaller child on a tagalong attached to the adult's bike?
Without the need for any photo altering comparisons, since they are only 151m from the cop with the speed camera and cycling toward him, I am thinking that they cycled right by him a few seconds later and he had every opportunity to confirm it was indeed a child before he composed the original social media post. Why do some trolls try and deflect blame with the most easily disproved crap?
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