Arseholes…
On patrol with the community speedwatchers
Power-crazed vigilantes or dedicated to road safety? These residents have taken matters into their own hands
As a family hatchback whizzes down the suburban street, it triggers Susannah Miller’s speed gun. The car is travelling at 41mph – more than 25 per cent above the 30mph limit.
Miller notes the vehicle’s particulars, ready to begin the cumbersome process of filling out official police paperwork to log the offence.
But Miller isn’t a police officer and she isn’t being paid for her efforts. She, along with her husband and a group of neighbours, have spent hundreds of pounds – and many more hours – monitoring the speed of traffic in their local area in Bromley, south London.
With the help of a £200 speed gun, these volunteers have reported more than 1,000 speeding motorists to the Metropolitan Police in the past two years – a gargantuan task that has required more than 250 hours of paperwork alone.
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