Polish speed cameras

mvefa have you ever driven in Poland as the way you talk you com across as a bit of an expert in these things?

Driving here IS extremely dangerous and you are effectively surrounded by monkeys in powerful machines with no idea how to treat them or handle them. If you stick to the rules some idiot will crash into you. Poles are generally nice people but the second they get behind the wheel of a car they are just dangerous and clueless and unwilling to accept blame for things which goes wrong (a mentality which shines through in other things they do).

Sometimes they work some times they don't. I got a picture of me taken few weeks ago driving 70 when there was a 40 speed limit. It was at 3 pm not a living soul on the road or anywhere, I actually knew there was this speed limit there just forgot about it in the heat of an argument.

Beside that there was a camera in one part of my city where people usually speed up because there 3 lanes in each direction - it's in the middle of the city so there a natural 50km limit ; ) They put this camera there and from what I heard the camera did depleted 1000 photos limit in an hour ;) They uninstalled it on the next day.

PC is very, very wrong. it is the satan of all evil in the UK, god forbid you should try to hurt someone breaking into your home. The UK suffers greatly from PC ness, its number 2 on the list why I am in Poland, the wife being number 1.

I understand the last part you write and in an ideal world yes, but the world is not ideal, I really like to drive here, its not boring, it requires more skills than I had before I got here, I notice a lot more and my anticipation is so much sharper. I drive a diesel Citroen Picasso, its high center of gravity keeps out of boy racer status, I know what it can do and what it can't do, I expect that any car will change lanes at the last moment, I don't let it stress me out, it part of life here, I am in their country I do as they do.


Then you are person who will cause the fatal accident by not doing the same as the locals. If I gain on a truck on a fast A road, behind me are a line of fast cars, I know they are going to go for it, I judge what the guy behind me might to, so I give him some space between me and the truck or pull over into the hard shoulder and give the guy some space to come through or I block him and take the truck, then if I do that he will follow with me, so I will judge if is safe to tuck in and let he go past. Sometimes its just best to let a long line of cars through and tuck on the end. I do 90KPH on A roads, thats the limit, but I do not get in the way for those who do 120 KPH. People do some fairly risky overtaking in my opinion, so I like to think I make it less risky by being aware of whats around me and at any moment a Fiat 127 with 5 fat blokes might struggle out of a turning with a few trucks gaining ground on him and a load of cars about to overtake, I am not speeding but I am in the middle of it all and I really do enjoy the thrill. We don't get this in the UK or in Denmark were I used to live

a lesson i learned on my very first trip to Poland and have always used since, stay behind a vehicle of some description at all times unless hes slow of course when on A roads. This stops the nutters overtaking in the opposite direction hitting you first and is easier on your passengers blood pressures. It also eliminates nutters overtaking between you and the car in front.

Haha, yea, they have those all over the place in chicago. It really has improved driving conditions. But sometimes, some pissed drivers go over night and smash them, lol.

In the Uk they help to fund the British government. In Poland they seem to be for people to test their emergency braking skills.

I got flashed by a speed camera in Eastern Germany back in 1997.....I was in an English registered Landrover , which is now with me in Poland.....I am still waiting for my ticket...!