Anybody been caught by a Northants Camera Van?

[tsteenholdt]

I’ve just received some lovely photos of my car from the Northants speed camera van revenue generation team

Has anybody else been caught in Northants by a mobile camera and requested copies of the photos?

They send you an A4 sheet with 2 small photos and one large photo on it, taken in sequence, with speed, range, time some other information printed at the bottom of each photo.

But on mine 2 of the 3 photos (one of the small ones and the large one) do not show any speed or range info, and instead say “ERROR 03”. Only the last photo in the sequence has speed and range printed on it.

My brother was caught recently and both his small photos have speed and range info. His large photo just has date, time and some other numbers on it. None of his have any error messages on them.

I would be interested to know what information was on the photo’s of other PH’ers who’ve been caught by Northants camera vans. Has anybody else had “ERROR 03”?

And can anybody tell me if they can legally prosecute without having at least 2 photos showing your speed? And if not, why do they take 3 photos if one would be sufficient? Bearing in mind that it was a mobile camera van so there are no markings on the road from which to calculate a speed “manually”.

Also, has anybody got any idea what “ERROR 03” means? I believe they use LTI 20-20 laser guns in Northants.

[hertsbiker]

it isn't 3 pics. The big one is an enlarged & cropped version of the one of the originals.

Think you'll find that the radar gadget detected your speed, and the photos are to confirm it, being spaced 0.5 seconds apart.

However you may give it a go and get somewhere... but personally I'd try and find fault somewhere else. How fast were you going?

rgds.

[tsteenholdt]

quote:
it isn't 3 pics. The big one is an enlarged & cropped version of the one of the originals.

Think you'll find that the radar gadget detected your speed, and the photos are to confirm it, being spaced 0.5 seconds apart.

However you may give it a go and get somewhere... but personally I'd try and find fault somewhere else. How fast were you going?

rgds.

Thanks for the response, but my pics are definitely 3 different photos taken in sequence, the background in each one is visibly different. I was able to work out the sequence in which they were taken by looking at drain covers and road markings visible on the photos in relation to the car’s position, and noting that the clock on the final photo had advanced to the next second. This was a mobile camera using laser rather than a conventional radar Gatso which just takes 2 photos.

Allegedly, whoever was driving my car at the time was doing 44mph in a 30 limit. (And before anybody moans, it was on a wide, 3 lane road, that would probably be a 40 limit under a less revenue orientated, anti-car council)

[Ballistic Banana]

No not in northants but in Beds nearly today.

Going south on the A1 through Buckden near Sandy was doing fifthy as thats the limit and there is a Gatso in the central Resavation went past it then i know just after these they had put up another one but it wasnt operational last time i went past so i was taking it a bit steady and lo and behold theres one of these bloody vans sitting there with the back doors open.
Well that made my blood boil, i just cant beleive the bloody check of the old bill.
No wonder no one RESPECTS them when they pull sneaky stunts like that.
I am all for cameras in Accident black spots but to wait just outside where yeah some people will speed up is just taking the biscuit.

BB

[jmorgan]

Over here in S Wales they breed. When in S Wales don't speed. They hide everywhere. Have been told that when they got thier first camera, they sat on a motorway bridge and caught over 800 making rapid progress.