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The speed camera formerly located on the A14 in Suffolk, UK was relocated to an underwater site some forty miles away. Fishermen discovered the remains of a ticket machine in a channel near Methwold Lode in Norfolk. Last Thursday a camera had been knocked down and its inner workings removed. Suffolk Police spokesman Mike Nunn told the Easern Daily Press that he believes this is the missing device.
“We will be working with Norfolk Police to see if it is the same camera,” Nunn said.
Vandals are believed to have ripped down a speed camera and carried it some 40 miles across a county border before dumping it in a remote cut-off channel.
The head of a safety camera found in the channel a mile from Methwold, near Thetford, is thought to belong to a Suffolk camera vandalised on the A14 near Stowmarket.
Those responsible went to huge effort to get rid of the camera, officials said, driving into a nearby field and attaching a rope or chain to drag it over, ripping out the concrete base and exposing the mains cables.
They then pulled off the top of the camera with its radar, which was on the A14’s eastbound carriageway at accident blackspot Haughley bends, and stole them. It is thought this happened last Thursday.
Three days later, an angler spotted the submerged head of a camera in the channel close to Methwold Lode.
The A14 camera will be replaced at the 50mph limit stretch of road, which is designated an accident reduction zone, with an estimated bill running up to thousands of pounds.
Suffolk SafeCam, which owns and operates the cameras, hope to retrieve it and spokeswoman Michelle Finnerty said in the meantime mobile cameras would be used to ensure motorists stick to the limit.
“The camera has been attacked, it’s been completely ripped out of the ground and investigations are ongoing at the moment. The concrete bit it was set in is out as well, someone has gone to a great deal of trouble.
“The cameras have been extremely effective in reducing the number of collisions in that accident reduction zone.”
She added the four cameras were there for a good reason, allowing Haughley villagers to get on and off the road safely.
Suffolk Police spokesman Mike Nunn said the cameras were in place for the safety of other road users and the vandalism, which is thought to have taken place one day last week, will not be tolerated.
“We will be working with Norfolk Police to see if it is the same camera,” he said.
It is understood Norfolk Casualty Reduction Partnership is missing no speed cameras.
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LOVE IS GIVING SOMEONE THE ABILITY TO DESTROY YOU, THEN TRUSTING THEM NOT TO.
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, But rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, VODKA in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming…….WOO HOO, WHAT A RIDE!!
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