Carnell private safety camera van...

Carnell private safety camera van...

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DJFish

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5,964 posts

270 months

Thursday 26th July 2018
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My dearly beloved went past one of these today: https://www.carnellgroup.co.uk/solutions/safetycam... she was wondering if they had any relationship to those fine people who dish out fines & points?

Purely for information purposes of course.

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

133 months

Thursday 26th July 2018
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The link you posted suggests it's only monitoring drivers within the roadworks site.

If she was driving through m'way roadworks, then the points will probably come from the main cameras she didn't notice.

pavarotti1980

5,449 posts

91 months

Thursday 26th July 2018
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Looks like they are used for capturing speeding site vehicles and driver incursion to the roadworks site and nothing else.

surveyor_101

5,069 posts

186 months

Thursday 26th July 2018
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This is to protect workers working on the network.

This is not the start of private speed camera fines!

The speed as I understand is not the same as a safety camera van you wont get FNP but the police can use the evidence to speak to the driver and maybe S59 etc. Dangerous careless driving could also happen. Only if there is dangerous incident or occurance.

The speed cameras are also used to monitor authorised drivers within the TM so staff and contractors. There is normally a 5/10/20 mph max speed in tm.

Again if you enter the traffic management the footage could be used by the police to maybe go down the route of dangerous or careless driving.

Edited by surveyor_101 on Thursday 26th July 14:03

pavarotti1980

5,449 posts

91 months

Thursday 26th July 2018
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surveyor_101 said:
This is to protect workers working on the network.

This is not the start of private speed camera fines!

The speed as I understand is not the same as a safety camera van you wont get FNP but the police can use the evidence to speak to the driver and maybe S59 etc. Dangerous careless driving could also happen.

Again if you enter the traffic management the footage could be used by the police to maybe go down the route of dangerous or careless driving.
Im glad as I went blatting past one last week at 1.30am smile

speedking31

3,636 posts

143 months

Thursday 26th July 2018
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pavarotti1980 said:
Im glad as I went blatting past one last week at 1.30am smile
Were you driving a tarmac layer?

pavarotti1980

5,449 posts

91 months

Thursday 26th July 2018
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speedking31 said:
ere you driving a tarmac layer?
luckily no

shep1001

4,602 posts

196 months

Friday 27th July 2018
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There is one of these on a regular basis on the long slip road off the A12 on the Colchester turn off where they are doing the road works

DJFish

Original Poster:

5,964 posts

270 months

Friday 27th July 2018
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Yep, that’s the one.

Tomo1971

1,152 posts

164 months

Sunday 29th July 2018
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Its a sad state of affairs when the government and those agencies / contractors whom fix our roads bleat on about lower speed limits on the main carriageway when there are roadworks but seems that their own staff cant abide by site speed limits that one would have thought was more dangerous than if the other side of the divide.

Not a dig at speed limits at roadworks at all but surely the actual road workers themselves should at least be playing the game once on the 'works' side to protect their colleagues if they expect us on the 'road' side to do the same?

Can imagine that van to be kitted out must be the wrong side of 50k so its obviously an issue that someone is taking seriously.

QBee

21,400 posts

151 months

Sunday 29th July 2018
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Any construction contract includes money for what they call "preliminaries", which will include all the site cabins, staff facilities, etc etc (anyone going past the A14 roadworks near Cambridge will know how big that bill can get). Speed monitoring equipment will have been included by the contractors. Given that preliminaries are paid per week, we can start to understand why the A14 stuff is taking 3 and a half years......

surveyor_101

5,069 posts

186 months

Sunday 29th July 2018
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Tomo1971 said:
Its a sad state of affairs when the government and those agencies / contractors whom fix our roads bleat on about lower speed limits on the main carriageway when there are roadworks but seems that their own staff cant abide by site speed limits that one would have thought was more dangerous than if the other side of the divide.

Not a dig at speed limits at roadworks at all but surely the actual road workers themselves should at least be playing the game once on the 'works' side to protect their colleagues if they expect us on the 'road' side to do the same?

Can imagine that van to be kitted out must be the wrong side of 50k so its obviously an issue that someone is taking seriously.
trust me it's not really a concern about road workers speeding in the traffic management. It's not an issue and most vans have trackers now. The problems is the amount of clowns who drive into the TM Or do dangerous things.

We have incident recently on a 1/2 lane closure where a airport taxi driver in a galaxy was undertaking in lane 2 a car in lane through and crashed through colliding with a I'm truck on the hard shoulder.

When are they going to to stop calling taxi drivers professional drivers. Fully marked up mpv with company logo all over it and the driver is undertaking and missing a sequential taper that's 70 comes with flashing lihhts !


Edited by surveyor_101 on Sunday 29th July 20:42

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

133 months

Sunday 29th July 2018
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surveyor_101 said:
We have incident recently on a 1/2 lane closure where a airport taxi driver in a galaxy was undertaking in lane 2 a car in lane through and crashed through colliding with a I'm truck on the hard shoulder.
I have no idea what you were trying to say there.

surveyor_101 said:
When are they going to to stop calling taxi drivers professional deivers.!
When they redefine the word "professional".

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/profe...
The OED said:
Engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as an amateur.

George7

1,130 posts

157 months

Sunday 29th July 2018
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shep1001 said:
There is one of these on a regular basis on the long slip road off the A12 on the Colchester turn off where they are doing the road works
I always try to at least partially stick to the 40mph speed limit down this one, which feels painfully slow and I usually end up getting tailgated (I assume you mean the one going down to the Spring Lane Roundabout?) I haven't seen one of these enforcement vans yet though.

They also have that sign up just after it becomes a 40 telling you your speed, and the people ahead of me are usually doing around 55-60.

Countdown

41,961 posts

203 months

Sunday 29th July 2018
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surveyor_101 said:
We have incident recently on a 1/2 lane closure where a airport taxi driver in a galaxy was undertaking in lane 2 a car in lane through and crashed through colliding with a I'm truck on the hard shoulder.

When are they going to to stop calling taxi drivers professional drivers. Fully marked up mpv with company logo all over it and the driver is undertaking and missing a sequential taper that's 70 comes with flashing lihhts !
Merging in turn.

Probably the fault of the guy in Lane 2 for not leaving an adequate gap.

valiant

11,316 posts

167 months

Tuesday 23rd February 2021
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Holy thread resurrection, Batman!

Passed one of these vans the other night at a maybe slightly higher speed and got wondering.

It wasn’t in roadworks or near an entry to a set of roadworks, it was on an official diversion route from a set of roadworks parked up on the pavement with cameras poking out the back on a residential type road.

Can a private contractor dish out fines or pass them onto plod to do the necessary?

QBee

21,400 posts

151 months

Tuesday 23rd February 2021
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Double resurrection - the A14 road improvements finished nearly 9 months early, just in time for the first lockdown. They were blessed with good weather, but all the same they really got on with it in the last 12 months of the works.

leglessAlex

5,720 posts

148 months

Monday 7th June 2021
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valiant said:
Holy thread resurrection, Batman!

Passed one of these vans the other night at a maybe slightly higher speed and got wondering.

It wasn’t in roadworks or near an entry to a set of roadworks, it was on an official diversion route from a set of roadworks parked up on the pavement with cameras poking out the back on a residential type road.

Can a private contractor dish out fines or pass them onto plod to do the necessary?
Do you have an update on this, valiant?

I may or may not have gone past one in a non roadworks area that was stopped by the side of the road with orange lights on and now I feel quite sick at the idea of the possible consequences.

valiant

11,316 posts

167 months

Monday 7th June 2021
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leglessAlex said:
valiant said:
Holy thread resurrection, Batman!

Passed one of these vans the other night at a maybe slightly higher speed and got wondering.

It wasn’t in roadworks or near an entry to a set of roadworks, it was on an official diversion route from a set of roadworks parked up on the pavement with cameras poking out the back on a residential type road.

Can a private contractor dish out fines or pass them onto plod to do the necessary?
Do you have an update on this, valiant?

I may or may not have gone past one in a non roadworks area that was stopped by the side of the road with orange lights on and now I feel quite sick at the idea of the possible consequences.
Haven’t heard a thing!




anonymous-user

61 months

Monday 7th June 2021
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It is a camera van pure and simple, if the authorities decide to accept the evidence provided by the van then you can guess what happens next.

It is not a big leap for a camera partnership to decide they need more capacity and rent something just like this, especially as the website talks about submissible evidence so the system quality is at the required level.