On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:06:32 -0000, "dennis@home"
wrote:

There are only a few reasons they get caught, either..

they saw the camera and ignored it

they were travelling too fast for them to slow down when they saw the camera

they didn't see the bright yellow box on a stick

they aren't paying attention to their driving and don't know what the speed
limit is

None of them are make a good driver!

I disagree that failing to see the camera necessarily makes a person a
bad driver. A good driver should focus their prime attention on
everything that is likely to be a risk factor, and other things that
are not a safety issue should be of secondary concern. In some cases
the driver will quite correctly be fully focussed on moving objects
that are obviously far more hazardous than a piece of stationary
street furniture, and have insufficient spare capacity to notice the
colour of the roadside flowers, the bright advert on the side of a bus
shelter or a square yellow box.

There was an inquest a year or so back when the coroner remarked that
a driver's reaction to a pedestrian stepping out in front of his car
was quite possibly slowed due to having just spotted a speed camera
and becoming focussed on ensuring he did not pass it too fast. The
pedestrian's death was ruled as being an accident with no blame to the
driver, who forensics found was travelling below the speed limit at
the time the pedestrian stepped into the road. The position of the
camera was however considered to be a contribitory factor

According to what you have stated however, a driver who had spotted
the pedestrian and given full attention to avoiding hitting that
pedestrian, but who had not spotted the bright yellow camera would be
a worse driver.

--
Cynic