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Author: Subject: 40 MPH repeaters???
pewe

posted on 1/4/12 at 01:14 PM Reply With Quote
40 MPH repeaters???

I may have been clocked by a Truevelo in Newcastle on Tyne last weekend.
Normally I'm pretty cautious but an unfamiliar road and following the car in front meant I wasn't concentrating 120% and doing just under 50 - the previous limit.
When I went back along the same piece of road the following day there was only 1 x 40 mph repeater between the main 40 signs ( at a complex narrowing of the road, traffic lights etc. etc.) and the camera about half a mile up the road and that was about 50mtrs before the camera.
Does anyone know what the legal requirement is for repeaters in a 40 limit/proximity to a speed camera?
Academic at present but I'd be interested to know chapter and verse.
Thanks, Pewe10

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pekwah1

posted on 1/4/12 at 01:53 PM Reply With Quote
Google pepipoo, all about grtting out of speeding tickets etc, sure they would know on there!
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Big_Al

posted on 1/4/12 at 04:14 PM Reply With Quote
The guidelines for road signage state should be at least every 400 yards.

They are only guidelines and not the law.

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matt_claydon

posted on 1/4/12 at 04:46 PM Reply With Quote
Everything you ever wanted to know, including references to the relevant legislation here:

http://www.abd.org.uk/speed_limit_signs.htm#repeaters

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pewe

posted on 1/4/12 at 05:01 PM Reply With Quote
Thanks for the info guys.
Hopefully 40 mph plus 10% plus speedo error will mean they won't ticket.
If they do the guy driving the Bentley Continental convertible in front of me will be ticketed as well!
Cheers, Pewe10

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coyoteboy

posted on 11/4/12 at 01:00 PM Reply With Quote
The 40 repeater was 50yds before the camera but you still went through over the limit? I may have mis-read that.
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