Moorron
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 posted on 11/11/09 at 01:57 PM |
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Speed cam van not in normal location
Luckily i was doing the right speed but i have a question regarding police speed cam vans.
As far as i am aware they park in one location which has a few painted lines above and below that location and they are used in the photo to prove the
distance/setup of the vans camera. But today one of these vans was about 100 meters away around the next corner.
Can they still collect the date used to send a ticket out? , it was parked up on a kerb and not in the layby's provided for them.
Is this a new tactic or have i got it wrong and they can park anywhere.
Cheers
Sorry about my spelling, im an engineer and only work in numbers.
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stevebubs
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| posted on 11/11/09 at 02:00 PM |
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No laybys or painted lines around here....
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jacko
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| posted on 11/11/09 at 02:04 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by stevebubs
No laybys or painted lines around here....
same here Kingston upon Hull
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nige
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| posted on 11/11/09 at 02:11 PM |
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in not so sunny scunny
they use a tripod mounted camera about a meter high at the road side and a people carrier or van in a road close by
money grabbing sh*tbags 
when you start this journey
you think it will be done in " no " time but then " no " turns into a " bloody " long time
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IanBrace
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| posted on 11/11/09 at 03:08 PM |
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If I remember rightly they must be parked legally and not sure that half on the curb is legal??
I recently had one that I thought had got me and he was deffinately illegally parked. I pulled up, got out and photographed it from all angles. The
operater wasn't happy about it but I never heard anything else about it!
www.aerialphotography.org.uk
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blakep82
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| posted on 11/11/09 at 03:21 PM |
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do they have to have some certain markings on them? like how speed cameras have to have flouorescent paint on the back?
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Moorron
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| posted on 11/11/09 at 04:33 PM |
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it was parked on a raised kerb, over a bridge so on the tarmac part but not where a car would be allowed, it was marked as a speed van.
Around here they have purpose built layby's with a few white lines on the road. But for a few days in a row now its been down the road.
If i catch them there tomorrow i will stop and photo it just incase.
sounds like a new tactic then round here, trying to catch people off guard. Prop knowing people are too scared to contest them nowadays so trying to
get a nice xmas bonus.
Sorry about my spelling, im an engineer and only work in numbers.
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Jon Ison
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| posted on 11/11/09 at 04:49 PM |
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Our closest regular spot, around 200yds from home, is the entrance to a private fishing pond, I often wish I had the key to the gate and just sit
there with indicator on waiting to pull in.
There was talk of a horsebox been used in Derbyshire at one time, I have seen what looked soooooooooo much like a camper van it was unreal collecting
taxes.
One final point from me, I do not for one minute condone speeding, what does get my back up is they park for revenue not safety, if they are near a
busy junction, pedestrian area, school, great they have my 100% support, but zillions of miles from anywhere on a straight road behind a bush, sorry
its cash collection only and absolutely zero safety, my opinion will never change on this.
Convince me if you can.
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motorcycle_mayhem
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| posted on 11/11/09 at 05:57 PM |
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Nice one on the A30 last weekend, where the road goes by Brown Willy. Basically absolutely nothing up there, no junctions, just normal wet, bleak and
pretty dismal Cornwall. Tripod mounted camera with the attendant car neatly positioned behind the gorse. Nice.
As the other poster says, put this rig on the approach to a blind junction, or an approach to town, I'm happy...
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Steve G
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| posted on 11/11/09 at 07:06 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Moorron
sounds like a new tactic then round here, trying to catch people off guard.
Shocking tactics - trying to catch people speeding in areas other than where they (the anti-fun police) normally are - disgraceful - its just not
cricket!!! 
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austin man
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| posted on 11/11/09 at 11:38 PM |
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dont different cameras have different abilities ?? ie calculate appraching speed and some that calculate via marking ie distance covered
Life is like a bowl of fruit, funny how all the weird looking ones are left alone
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stevebubs
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| posted on 11/11/09 at 11:40 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Jon Ison
Our closest regular spot, around 200yds from home, is the entrance to a private fishing pond, I often wish I had the key to the gate and just sit
there with indicator on waiting to pull in.
Surely that's illegal as it's blocking the owner's right of way?
Nothing to stop you sitting there with your indicator on anyhow....
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 14/11/09 at 11:38 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by motorcycle_mayhem
Nice one on the A30 last weekend, where the road goes by Brown Willy.
As the other poster says, put this rig on the approach to a blind junction, or an approach to town, I'm happy...
Who/what is Brown Willy? (I hope it isn't a 'what'  )
Iirc they have to publish the sites where mobile cameras (of any kind) will be sited. Plus I found a rule that they're not allowed to put them
on roads where speeding is dangerous!
I fully agree with cameras near schools, blind bends etc but on clear open roads?
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