Flashing lights to show speed trap.

I am with you..I don't flash. and I don't speed. frankly I want speeding drivers to be caught...maybe then they will think twice about putting others lives at risk

I think it may be an offence to warn others of speed traps. It won't be careful drivers who are caught by the traps only those breaking the law.

It is an offence to warn others of a speed trap. Let them get caught, as they deserve.

Must say I haven't seen a speed trap in over 10 years and thought/hoped the police were using their resources to deal with crime.
Traffic generally moves at a safe rate, roughly within 10% of the speed limit.
I do flash people possibly going a little over the limit but anyone really speeding I wouldn't dream of warning them. They are the ones we need to catch.

I would always flash oncoming traffic. Think police could be more effectively used than sitting in a van trapping people. Actually believe it's a money making practice more than a safety one.

I wouldn't warn anyone about a speed trap. If they're speeding then they're breaking the law.

The last time someone flashed at us we discovered that it was because there was a hedgehog crossing the road! We slowed and it reached the pavement safely. Much better use of headlights.

Mixed views- if it makes people slow down that is a good thing. Even better if they stay slowed down!

I'm thankful someone flashed me on a country road at night because I found a herd of deer were galloping down the road in front of me when I rounded the bend.

I never flash and I never speed - consciously; my satnav bingles at me a bit if I accidentally go over, which is rare.

My reasoning, apart from being law abiding, is that if I did hit someone, I'd be horrified; if I hit someone while I was over the limit, I don't think I could live with myself.

If I get fined for accidentally going over, that's my tough luck.

Ps I wasn't exceeding the speed limit and wasn't going through a village.

I have always understood oncoming traffic flashing their lights meant a general "slow down". It could be for anything, Calistemon's herd of deer, an accident, flooding, etc.

Obviously the pious on here have a direct route to God and will have already been warned of these things.

I flash!

Surely the point of me flashing a speeding oncoming motorist is to get them to slow down for everyone’s safety? I don’t only do it after passing a speed camera!

It is the responsible thing to do to flash your lights if there is a hazard ahead for other drivers not for speed traps.. which the OP mentioned.

OH flashed another car once because there were geese in the middle of the road. We had pulled up behind another car and the passenger got out to chase the geese who were attacking the tyres but the geese started to attack the passenger!

I think one should always try to alert others to a danger ahead. A speed trap is not a danger but may turn out to be inconvenient and expensive to speeders, which they should be left to find out for themselves. Visgirl beware of finding you have flashed an unmarked police car!

I flash,A, to slow them down,B to warn drivers there are Deer crossing as we have lots of them where i live and C, if drivers haven`t put their headlights on.

Flashing lights here mean there are ponies, cattle or sheep in the road. Sometimes big groups of pheasants. Recently someone flashed their lights at me and around the next corner were two peacocks being chased up the lane by a girl with a huge net!

I always keep within the speed limit...so far within the limit I'm called Captain Slow in our family.

I wouldn't flash for a police trap because it was being caught speeding that stopped me driving too fast. I did one of the police speeding courses which scared the bejesus out of me and made me realise the dangers of going too fast. I hope it would work for others who drive too fast and might save their life or the life of someone else.

I flash to alert oncoming traffic of a need to slow down, be it flooding, wildlife in the road, speed traps etc. As for the self righteous on here, it is possible to miss changes of speed limits, for instance those on here in Bristol who are familiar with the road going in and out of Keynsham which has a change down to 30, yet the signs are always completely obscured by tree branches until you are alongside them. There will be other examples of that around the country which would be a nice little earner for the speed trap industry.

I would never flash my lights to warn traffic of a speed trap. They shouldn’t be speeding in the first place and deserve to get a fine if caught.

Trap. No. If you are travelling within the speed limit there isn’t a problem. Often areas are monitored because they have had incidents involving pedestrians and cars. I’d rather the police did this, regardless of people flashing their lights or not, than have someone I love injured or killed.

Flashing gets them to slow down - job done.

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Must say I haven't seen a speed trap in over 10 years and thought/hoped the police were using their resources to deal with crime.* When did speeding cease to be a crime?

I’m definitely a flasher, having been fined for being two mph over the limit. Certainly for any hazard in the road. Glad the hedgehog made it unscathed.