Can I use my satnav system, which indicates the locations of speed cameras, whilst driving in France?

My wife and I are intending to travel to Slovakia from the UK by car. The TomTom tells us that the quickest route will mean travelling for a while in France. However I believe that I read a response from...

Did you know that there are speed cameras that will cause a Garmin satnav to stop working?

On three occasions over the last year I have used the M1 between Junctions 15A and 32. On each occasion my Garmin satnav has stopped functioning in the vicinity of Nottingham and did not resume until it...

Why are automatic number plate readers on speed cameras so inaccurate?

I was surprised to receive a Notice of Intended Prosecution (NIP) for allegedly travelling at 56mph along a stretch of dual carriageway I know has a 40mph speed limit - which I do consciously try to observe....

Deactivated speed cameras

Why do you think that Northamptonshire has suspended speed camera operations? Is it that the roads have become so safe that they are now redundant? I don't think so. They were, from the beginning, an additional...

Speed camera detectors in france

I have an Inforad v4e Speed camera warning device. The AA website states that any form of radar detector is totally illegal in France. The Inforad is, in my opinion, simply a GPS unit with camera locations...

Where does the money from speed cameras go?

I have recently been dunned for £60 for speeding by an unmanned camera, all, apparently, in the interests of road safety. This raises the question of who audits the money? I feel that it merely goes to...

Was a lorry driver exonerated in court for warning oncoming drivers of a speed trap?

Many years ago I believe you ran a item in your pages concerning a lorry driver being found guilty by police for warning drivers of a speed check/trap, but on appeal to the law lords he was exonerated....

Trappist flunks

According to a report in your column on 5th August 2006 there was a Law Lords decision that it was not an offence for a motorist to warn others of a speed trap. Yet we read that magistrates are still fining...

Why are drivers given no quarter for minor offences when civil servants are often let off?

I got a ticket for being caught in a bus lane in London, because I stopped to let an ambulance with its siren on pass, accompanied by a police escort. I am appealing. Did you happen to read of the policeman...

Why don't drivers who complain about tailgaters just let other traffic pass them?

Reading the survey about top 10 motorists' complaints, the one that amazed me was that 70 per cent of people disliked having someone following too closely behind. I had always assumed these people never...