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It’s always just a worthless
It’s always just a worthless warning letter. Lancashire has just gone one better: they don’t respond at all.
As the police have done
As the police have done nothing
And their aim is to continue doing nothing- all this tripe about Highway Code changes is not accepted at all by the police, who still follow the ‘might is right’ rule where cyclists should always defer to respectable folk in vehicles in all circumstances and should be grateful at all times that the motorist hasn’t hit them.
The driver of a 44-tonne
The driver of a 44-tonne lorry that crashed through Newport roundabout at 1.50am on Saturday had ‘complained of chest pain’
I can only comment like this because I know nothing about the incident: this is the lorry driver building himself an excuse ‘because chest pain has to be taken seriously and may have been the cause of the driver failure’, whereas it’s really because he was eating/ drinking/ smoking/ on the phone/ too experienced to need to bother paying attention etc.
I have not been able to find
I have not been able to find any reference to having to display signage
It’s still there on OpSnap Lancs! You still have to accept this, and when I’m filming people hurtling through a red traffic light, my transport is legs. The fact that most forces don’t deploy this dodge indicates that it has no legal foundation:
I confirm that I understand that dashcam footage falls under the Category of CCTV and as the footage is taken in the public domain, the Domestic Purposes Exemption under the Data Protection Act/UKGDPR does not apply and therefore all users are Data Controllers in their own right. As such you should be informing the public that they are being filmed and should have some form of notification on your mode of transport as you have responsibilities under the Data Protection Act /UKGDPR
I have only just noticed the “1 minute before and after” clause- around 2019, Lancashire used to demand either 2 minutes or 5 minutes (I’ve forgotten) before and after at a time when you were limited to a 60 MB file! They don’t have that ‘rule’ (read ‘dodge, to discourage submissions) here any more
hopes that drivers might see a cyclists side of the interaction
Sadly, this hope is almost always forlorn- especially with readers of the hyper-junk press. I had it in my mind, from something on here I think, that Sussex was using the same GDPR stuff as Lancashire, but I thought I ought to check. I could only get part way through the process before having to give in my details, so I don’t know much about Sussex police except that they’re going with the one minute before and after rubbish, which they claim is essential for video to be accepted in court. This is obviously just a Trump type made-up ‘fact’- this one is 14 seconds long and would be excellent evidence in court. It obviously didn’t get there because this is Lancashire, and RLJs are legal here!
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I’m still waiting to hear back from Sussex Police – I’ve done an FOI on this
It won’t do you any good! Sussex is one of the forces following the Lancashire Constabulary dodgy OpSnap model, which involves no prosecutions, lying about what they’ve done and refusing to disclose anything about anything. Cutting a long story short: see the most recent item on here, which is about this offence(link is external). I now have the Information Commissioner’s Decision Notice dated 3.5.23, Ref: IC-225713-W2Y2. Oddly, this is not available on the Information Commissioner website(link is external), despite them being published up to the decision date of 10th May. Maybe they hold back when they think it’s going to the Information Tribunal, which it is.
If you want to find out what the police actually did, when they claim to have taken action, this DN is important, because there will be numerous cases where they did nothing at all or, at best, sent out the joke warning letter for the offender to hang on a nail in the toilet.
This is the top of the DN, verbatim:
1. The complainant has requested information about an incident he reported, from Lancashire Constabulary. Lancashire Constabulary would neither confirm nor deny (“NCND”) holding the requested information, citing section 40(5) (Personal information) of FOIA.
2. The Commissioner’s decision is that Lancashire Constabulary was entitled to rely on section 40(5) of FOIA. No steps are required.What it means is: when the police tell you they’re ‘taking action’, and you try to find out what the action was, they refuse to tell you, claiming that they can’t even confirm that they have any idea what the police did! It’s even possible, given the institutionalised ineptitude at Lancashire Constabulary that they really don’t know!
AKA Boomers United
AKA Boomers United
It’s no accident that the only 2 vehicles in the shot are as guilty as sin!
What I want is the certainty:
What I want is the certainty: if no accurate GPS on the same unit then no time/ date display at all. It’s either right, or not at all.
I seem to be the only person
I seem to be the only person on here who is at all interested in GPS cameras. I have a GoPro Hero 7 Black, but I think that was their only GPS model- they haven’t offered one for years. Nobody wants this facility, which works very well, so nobody makes them
Very useful info. Thanks!
Very useful info. Thanks!
Good bike; shame about the
Good bike; shame about the tyres and the seller! It was like early autumn in North Lancashire today. This is looking down the Trough of Bowland- at about 3 1/4 hours it was 15-20 minutes slower than a full size bike. I kept checking the tape repair of the rear tyre, and it’s holding. That’s the new 11-36 silver finish cassette – a worthwhile improvement even though it’s only 2 more teeth!
You can also get away with
You can also get away with Googling road.cc: <whatever your memorable phrase or keywords are. So I can find my Lancashire Constabulary one with road.cc: Lies, Damn’ lies. The <space> after the <:> seems to be important
I doubt if any on here have
I doubt if any on here have bought this bike, and it’s been unusable up here recently because of the rain and unobtainable mudguards. However, I have obtained some now from Tredz- 20″ Bluemels which are really good and stable. Fitting hints available on request. Still no decent wider tyres available, though.
Local bike shop posted this
Local bike shop posted this picture of how tubeless tyre sealant can go
Wonderful! I just can’t wait to sign up for £20 per wheel every 6 months
Very entertaining, although
Very entertaining, although not quite as much fun as it would have been with an Audi or BMW
Joy! Another driver driving
Joy! Another driver driving one of the main ‘usual suspects’ vehicles taken off the road for a while- at least officially. However, such deterrents don’t work when the police are too idle to do anything about clearcut offences. AF11 XVU was first reported for no MOT 9 months ago, but it’s still driving around Lancashire
