Speed Camera poser?

Guinness

Guinness

Nori Brick
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I'm driving through Rishton, towards Blackburn, earlier today. Doing a steady 29.995mph. The speed camera is on the other side of the road.

A young Carl Fogarty comes barreling past me at about 50mph. This puts him on the side with the speed camera, he is speeding but going towards the camera.

Questions

a) Are these things set to snap both sides of the road (after all the markings are on both sides?

b) If they only work one way will young Carl be snapped? (he was speeding albeit the wrong way)
 
They only work on 1 side of the road, he will not have been caught. reason markings are on both sides is that they calculate your speed with the markings, if the car caught was overtaking someone else ie on the other side of road this method will still work, and at the same time they would be able to tell if the car being overtaken was speeding or not
 
The ones around here only work for cars going away from them. However there are many accross the country that do get you coming towards you. They look quite different:

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These both take a picture of you coming towards them.
 
i was on the A 556 near manchester airport at about midnight saturday, when a Porsche and a BMW passed me and the camera on the other side of the dual carriage way went off twice. it deffo wasn't a forward facing camera ???
 
Was there someone on the other side? they always flash twice, they take 2 photo's and look at where the car is on the markings, this indicates the cars actual speed
 
If your against the way the police use these camera's for revenue check this link out for some stickers to put in your window
http://www.abd.org.uk/speed_camera_signs.htm
 
Strange how that happened then because forward facing camera's dont flash. you dont know you have been caught until the letter arrives. There is some new digital camera's being tested at the min but not sure if they are up this area, police can set the speed limit from a control room, bit like the ones on the M25
 
http://www.ukspeedcameras.co.uk/ this is a good site for information on cameras and where they are
 
it wasnt a forward facing camera thats what i couldnt understand. no traffic on that side they wher in the correct lane but it deffo went off. very strange ???
 
There is a speed camera on new lane, ossy. It is for downhill speeders so when the detector in my van tells me it is LIVE, I get my push bike out and get up to 40mph ish as I go past it.. Just love to see that flash and know I am Scott free :)

Am I a speed camera Poser??
 
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Its great here not allowed speed cameras because it takes away from your civil liberties or summat, :p but when I was home at xmas I thought the alians had taken over, little yellow boxs every where except where they are needed. Why would you have a speed camera on the motorway every one is going to speed, its the weaving in and out and pulling in without indicating also tailgating and if one more pratt had flashed his lights, opps road rage, maybe a suggestion....... cops in cars on the road and not in cafes.
 
Guinness said:
I'm driving through Rishton, towards Blackburn, earlier today. Doing a steady 29.995mph. The speed camera is on the other side of the road.

A young Carl Fogarty comes barreling past me at about 50mph. This puts him on the side with the speed camera, he is speeding but going towards the camera.
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If he's on a motorbike, there's no front numberplate so he can't be identified.
 
Gatsos only work rear facing. They can be set to flash but the picture is not admissible.

Truvelos are forward facing and do not flash

Specs cameras(currently only M25 and the roadworks over Thelwall) are digital and work out average speed between two points using number plate recognition.
 
we once saw a guy on a motorbike going past a camera at speed pulled a wheelie covered his plate with his hand and off he went. Now thats a speed camera poser!

I would'nt mind but for the cost of the fine you get for speeding they could at least send you the picture!
 
If you do over 160mph(or somewhere round that speed) the gatso wont get you as you are going too quick for it. Don't know if that helps anyone.
 
Too quick in which sense?

Is it too fast for the radar detector to react and detect an offence taking place?

Or is the speed so fast that the offender is out of the cameras zone, when the second picture is taken by the gatso, to calculate the speed of the vehicle?
 
I think it's about 172mph.

Too fast to be detected.

I can't see too many people doing 172mph along St Johns Road here, even though it is quite a long, wide road
 
It wont even take a picture. I think its actually about 137mph for gatsos. They did a test on Top Gear once.
 
<fx: Ian gets out the bike to test>

Approaches speed camera accelerating hard

150......160.....165....166.....167...........168..........169........FLASH!!

Bugger! :)
 
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