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Officers and parish councillors monitor speeding on The Pastures...
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Attention being paid to speeding
Police are responding to speeding concerns in Narborough.
Residents and parish councillors in Narborough have helped Leicestershire Constabulary to launch a week-long campaign to reduce speeding.
The Force is taking part in a European-wide Speed Enforcement Campaign between Monday August 18 and Sunday August 24.
Throughout the week officers will be focusing their efforts on roads where speeding has been highlighted as a concern by members of the community.
One of these roads is The Pastures in Narborough. Following complaints from residents, reducing speed on The Pastures is now a priority for the neighbourhood policing team and Narborough Parish Council.
PC Simon Woods, neighbourhood officer for Narborough and Littlethorpe, said: "Through the regular consultations we hold with residents in Narborough, it is clear that speeding is a significant concern on The Pastures.
"The road runs through a very busy residential estate which houses many young families. There is also a school and park nearby, so the safety of children is at risk by motorists who exceed the 30 mile an hour speed limit.
"We will continue to raise awareness of speeding in the area with the use of a mobile electronic sign which displays the speed at which cars are travelling. We will also be holding further enforcement operations on The Pastures, as well as Hardwicke Road and Riverside Way in Littlethorpe which have also been identified as speeding hotspots by local residents."
Narborough Parish Council is currently looking into setting up a Community Speed Watch scheme in the area, with the support of Leicestershire Constabulary. The scheme involves volunteers from the community being trained to use hand-held radar guns so they can record the speed of passing vehicles. Warning letters are then sent to the offending drivers.
Councillor Trevor Matthews, chairman of Narborough Parish Council, said: "Excess speed has been identified in this parish in three areas. It is a priority for the local policing team, it is a concern for the parish council and it is even bothering young people in the area who have raised it as a problem through our youth questionnaire.
"We will continue to work with the police to raise awareness of the dangers of speeding and hope to set up our own Community Speed Watch in the parish in the near future."
Motorists caught speeding face a £60 fine and three points on their driving licence.
John Budulis, road safety officer for Leicestershire Constabulary, said: "Speeding has been highlighted as a major cause of collisions. By running awareness campaigns and enforcing the speed limit we will hopefully get the message across that by reducing speed we will also reduce the number of collisions and injuries on our roads."
Inspector Viv Brenchley, commander of Leicestershire Constabulary's Road Policing Unit, said: "Speed is one of the largest contributory factors in all fatal and serious injury collisions. The greater the speed upon impact in a crash - the more severe the injuries will be.
"The impact on a family when a loved one is killed on the road is devastating. We see this on a regular basis and it is one of the most unpleasant experiences we have to deal with.
"If we can get motorists to slow down then it will reduce the number of collisions and thereby make the roads of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland safer for everybody."
The speeding enforcement campaign is being co-ordinated by TISPOL, the European Traffic Police Network. It aims to reduce road deaths and casualties on European roads by bringing together the roads and traffic police forces in Europe to work together and exchange best practice.
Enderby EYE archived news 19/8/2008
I know this type of shot has been done a thousand times before but I liked it nonetheless.
I was carying my camera with me last weekend and I shot this without thinking much. I don't do that often these days and it was nice to simply shoot spontaneously something simple.
As night falls over the eastern seaboard, an MBTA commuter train flies through Readville along the Northeast Corridor. This pan shot and inclusion of the fence was more accident than planned, but the photo came out better than I thought it would.
Nothing too special today on the picture front. We had dust everywhere, with the visibility at about 1/2 a mile all day, so the light was bad for picture taking to begin with.
The only think I saw today that was mildly interesting was this truck that got pulled over for speeding.
Picture taken 23 Feb 2010.
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Art Nalls performing a banana pass in the L-39 Albatros.
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Hmm, hard (and dangerous) to take pics while speeding on the freeway. But I wanted to capture this really fantastic vintage convertible.
Skateboards seem to be a popular mode of transportation - I saw several at the university - both genders. I was bust my ass on one.
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So I was just messin' around with this photo, and I decided to put in a motion blur and a small glow. The end of the train was so difficult to work around, took me a few hours just to get it right and I still hate the way it turned out.
(Yes, this is a photo I took. I'll throw the original up later. )
As for the setup, it's different than I usually do. I was very much inspired by Dustin Diaz and I wanted to try out his format with a nice little quote from Matisyahu.
I hope you all like.
I'd love to get some feedback on this one.
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