Speed Camera question

[birdieman]

Clutching at straws here but I went past a speed camera on the A1 today and got flashed but I was on the opposite side of the road from the camera travelling towards the camera rather than away from it.

Can the camera see a front number plate on the opposite side of the road?

Will I get a ticket?

 

[Imurg]

Truvelo cameras look at cars coming towards them.
Gatso's look at those going away from them.

Was it a box with square camera lenses or round ones..?
Truvelo has round ones.

 

[stevie_r]

Think it has to get you from behind (if it's a fixed camera), from the front wouldn't catch bikes! Was anyone travelling the other way that could have tripped it?

 

[Dodger]

Which one?

yer fine by the way.

 

[ADB]

You can only get a ticket if you are travelling on the side of the road the camera is on - the markings on the road are needed to prove your speed. You should be fine.

 

[stevie_r]

Didn't realise there were two types but just read up on the truvelo and you don't see a flash apparently as it's IR

 

[stevie_r]

And see whoever invented those average speed cameras? I hope their next crap is a telephone box with the door open

 

[birdieman]

There were no other vehicles near the camera, Dodger it is the one just south of the roundabout for Pease Bay/Cockburnspath, I am aware of it but it's been a long week and my brain was in neutral, think I was doing about 72, it's 2 lanes on my side going south and one lane going north.

Have not had a ticket in 18 years but I got done in Edinburgh recently, awaiting result of that after admitting it was me, so I was panicked I'd suddenly be on 6 points from zero 2 weeks ago.

 

[Region3]

I'm sure I read somewhere that the 'flashy' ones aren't allowed to get you coming towards them because of the H&S aspect of distracting you from the road.

Odd that it flashed with no cars on the other side of the road though

 

[Mark_G]

Watch out for mobile speed cameras, the police in Norfolk are being rather nasty, they used to have a policy of being perfectly obvious, so you had a fighting chance. Now however they seem to have changed so anything goes, my wife got caught travelling on a 40 mph dual carriageway, and the camera was in a van parked in a layby on the opposite carriageway, out of view. On the same night I had my speed checked further up the road in a 30mph limit, at 9.30 at night, (in the dark), by a PC in the oldest least reflective, reflective coat you ever saw and he was hiding behind a bus shelter.

 

[johnboywalton]

Odd that it flashed with no cars on the other side of the road though

There was a speed camera that i used to pass every night on the way home from work, it was on the other side of the road and if you drove past it over the limit on my side, it would set it off, i never got a ticket even though it must have gone off loads of times.
I hope this makes sense

 

[CliveW]

Have a look on this website, loads of useful info that dispels many an urban myth! http://www.pepipoo.com/

 

[Dodger]

There were no other vehicles near the camera, Dodger it is the one just south of the roundabout for Pease Bay/Cockburnspath, I am aware of it but it's been a long week and my brain was in neutral, think I was doing about 72, it's 2 lanes on my side going south and one lane going north.

Have not had a ticket in 18 years but I got done in Edinburgh recently, awaiting result of that after admitting it was me, so I was panicked I'd suddenly be on 6 points from zero 2 weeks ago.

100% fine....I do it all the time and indeed will no doubt set it off tonight when I return from Auld Reekie.....next time just make sure you smile!

A word of warning though,through the week the van sits with a camera in it on the Northbound single carriageway regular during the week and you can't see them until it is too late.....they sit about 200 yards south of the camera.

 

[DCB]

After a brief look through the forums it appears the folks on the pepipoo forum must be the most set upon people in the land. None of them has done anything wrong and the have been persecuted mercilessly by the state

 

[Imurg]

Let's face it Guys - if we didn't speed there would be no need for cameras or speed bumps........

 

[TonyN]

Speed cameras can do you if your on coming or travelling away from. I the cfamera is set for oncoming, it will either have no flash, or a red filter (red light doesn't interupt night vision so it doesn't blind you).

The key things is the road markings. It must have some road marking in the lane you are travelling to show what your distance over time is. Don't be fooled thinking they must be the little white boxes either side of the lane that run for a couple hundred yards. On coming cameras usually have 3 white lines the width of the lane and are as close as a few feet apart and run only a very short distance, (less than a car length).

Who's to say that the image will be processed anyway? There is a masssive list of reasons why that ticket might not make it to your door mat. If it does, enquire about a speeding awareness course locally.

You will have to pay for it (about the same price as the fine) but you don't get the points. These course are only availble if you have been caught by a static camera and not a manned one. I.E a filthy Police Officer

 

[neilkath]

i used to set of the camera by my mums when i went passed on the other side of the road it used to flash but never got a ticket

 

[backspin22]

You might get offered a Speed Awareness Course....worth doing to avoid the points - but turn up ON TIME and play it by the book.

 

[Crazyface]

The people should rise up and spray the lenses on these obininations.

 

[john0]

Speed cameras are a very sensitive issue with me at the minute!!