Uneasy at these events.

[100K+]

It may have escaped members attention that some 80+ drivers are to be fined and have points added to their licences for driving off the M11, after the road was closed and traffic halted following an accident, but driving the wrong way to do so.
Evidence for this offence being provided by dash cam footage from cars and drivers which were there at the time.

Is it just me or is anyone else uneasy at this situation.

I'd ask how soon it will be before such evidence be accepted for other motoring offences ie speeding, I can see a situation arising where, as dash cams become more common, we as drivers are going to be encourage to "Spy" on our fellow drivers and "shop" them when we think they are guilty of wrong doing all in the name of civic duty..

BTW I am not one of the 80+ drivers who are to be fined... just in case you were wondering..


Thank goodness my driving days are nearer ending than just starting....

Cheers
Bob

[Bendolfc]

Not uneasy at all, it's about time and might serve to make idiots think twice in future.

Plenty of people have already been prosocuted for varing offences captured on dashcam so it isn't anything new.

[Harvey1512]

No unease from me. I assume that most of my driving is caught on overhead cameras etc so a dash cam or a police / council camera, it makes no difference to me. Don't do anything stupid is the answer.

[phutyle]

Say I saw someone being mugged on the pavement as I drive past. I get home and I see that I have it captured on my dashcam. I hand the footage over to the police, who had no other evidence to go on, and they identify the suspect and secure a conviction.

Would that make you feel uneasy?

[TonyB65]

Originally Posted by phutyle

Say I saw someone being mugged on the pavement as I drive past. I get home and I see that I have it captured on my dashcam. I hand the footage over to the police, who had no other evidence to go on, and they identify the suspect and secure a conviction.

Would that make you feel uneasy?

They wouldn't be interested, too busy on patrol on Twitter.

[Harvey1512]

Originally Posted by TonyB65

They wouldn't be interested, too busy on patrol on Twitter.

To be fair to them if someone reports abuse from Twitter or wherever they are duty bound to deal with it. I feel for them there, they are being bogged down with name calling investigations, 99.999% being from cowardly keyboard warriors. It must drive them nuts.

[XC90Mk1]

Originally Posted by TonyB65

They wouldn't be interested, too busy on patrol on Twitter.

Thts just what I was going to say.

[100K+]

Originally Posted by Bendolfc

Not uneasy at all, it's about time and might serve to make idiots think twice in future.

Plenty of people have already been prosocuted for varing offences captured on dashcam so it isn't anything new.

Originally Posted by Harvey1512

No unease from me. I assume that most of my driving is caught on overhead cameras etc so a dash cam or a police / council camera, it makes no difference to me. Don't do anything stupid is the answer.

Thought some may feel this way - that's good - its a free country etc, we don't all think the same about things - just look at Brexit LOL..but due to what I perceive as an increased level of minding your neighbours business, rather than one's own, we as a society could be said to be moving towards what I read about the old East German life style where the police,the secret service and your neighbours all spied on you, but how it all started out as all men were equal ( but was corrupted, as in Animal Farm to all men are equal but some men are more equal than others)
As history and Tony point out, once a society goes down that road its almost impossible to turn the clock back.

Do we learn lessons from history??

Cheers
Bob.

[Ukwide]

Originally Posted by 100K+

Thought some may feel this way - that's good - its a free country etc, we don't all think the same about things - just look at Brexit LOL..but due to what I perceive as an increased level of minding your neighbours business, rather than one's own, we as a society could be said to be moving towards what I read about the old East German life style where the police,the secret service and your neighbours all spied on you, but how it all started out as all men were equal ( but was corrupted, as in Animal Farm to all men are equal but some men are more equal than others)
As history and Tony point out, once a society goes down that road its almost impossible to turn the clock back.

Do we learn lessons from history??

Cheers
Bob.

And what happens to the pillock who takes their dash cam to the local constabulary and says, look this idiot was speeding doing 50 mph in a 30 mph zone, I followed him/her for ..... miles it’s all on my dash cam, the old bill will love that, two for the price of one.

In Wiltshire, they won’t even accept City Centre camera footage as evidence, so lord knows what they’ll do with a dash cam footage. Oh and I do know of one pillock who videoed a car driving erratically on his phone camera and took it to his local plod, only to be asked and did you take this whilst driving sir? Apparently the silence was deafening as the realisation sunk in, using a phone whilst driving......

[Whippy]

Originally Posted by Ukwide

And what happens to the pillock who takes their dash cam to the local constabulary and says, look this idiot was speeding doing 50 mph in a 30 mph zone, I followed him/her for ..... miles it’s all on my dash cam, the old bill will love that, two for the price of one.

In Wiltshire, they won’t even accept City Centre camera footage as evidence, so lord knows what they’ll do with a dash cam footage. Oh and I do know of one pillock who videoed a car driving erratically on his phone camera and took it to his local plod, only to be asked and did you take this whilst driving sir? Apparently the silence was deafening as the realisation sunk in, using a phone whilst driving......

No officer, my passenger shot the footage for me.