Mobile Safety (yeh right..) Camera Vans

[dan]

Does anyone one know how you tell if you get caught?? Saw my first ever Mobile Safety (*cough* splutter..) van on the A4174, I did slow to 70 (70 limit) from a little over 80 (though I'm not sure exactly what speed I was doing as I find it safer to look out of the windows and not constantly monitor the speedo), but as the cameras were facing me I there was no flash. There were a couple of plods malingering around (not attending burgleries and shop thefts etc.) but none of them paid any attention to me.

Does this mean they were sitting smug in the knowledge that they had earned their commision for that day??

This road has perfect visibility a perfect surface and to my knowledge has no record of accidents. Blatant bloody revenue gaining!!

To all the plod posters.. Sorry guys I do feel that you are being used as a tool by councillers politicians etc. but I'm afraid it's hard to stay simpathetic. Hell I don't know if I was caught and my respect has gone down a notch.

[JMorgan]

quote:Saw my first ever Mobile Safety (*cough* splutter..) van on the A4174,

Come to sunny South Wales. Loads of the buggers so you get used to spotting them, round corners, up trees etc. In the local press they seem to target certain speeds and general enforcement, sorry entrapment. eg they go after 90+ on the motorway one day then over 80 the next. Then check out 30mph villages another. So it might be a nervy 2 week wait.
Am I right in saying the police will not provide stats for black spots? So they hope thier noses don't elongate when camera's are installed.

[bobthebench]

Only sure way of finding out is wait a couple of weeks. The joy (!!!) of these systems is that they need no flash. They operate in daylight, record everything and impose the speed within the photo. At the end of the shift, the tape is passed to the Road Policing unit, who re-run the tape and decide who to issue tickets to.

Sorry.

[dan]

Thanks guys

Kinda what I was expecting

To be honest while I'm mightily cheesed off at the prospect of getting a ticket, I'm pretty sure I wasn't doing too much over the limit so it depends on where they draw the line. I guess I'll have to take my points and bear it.

[superflid]

Bloody things are becoming a nightmare! For residents of Leicestershire (or those unlucky enough to be passing through) the catchily titled www.speedorsafety.com gives a list of both fixed cameras and details of schedules for whereabouts of mobile highway robbery.

[richard36]

if youre in Northamptonshire, you need your wits about you all the time. we have loads of the @rseh0les around here. they interviewd one of the drivers, they are civvies you know, and the smug prat was all holier than thou, "i've no problem with my job, saving lives
Fekk me I thought what a hero, there was some talk recently about them being accompanied by a rozzer for protection after a number of irate motorists began taking it upon them selves to stop when caught walk back and berate the useless ?arstards locked in their vans Rant over..