speed cameras?

[silver_fox]

I was travelling down Edinburgh city bypass earlier tonight, and was going a little faster than the speed limit (70 mph) following an Octavia vrs ....

a stationary camera on the opposite side of the road flashed twice, and Im fairy sure it flashed because of me and the octavia. There aren't any markings on the side of the road I/we were travelling, and the road is like a 2 lane motorway with a central safety barrier.

So now i have a month of waiting to get the dreaded letter, do you think its possible to get a speeding fine from a camera on the opposite side of the road??? the octavia didn't slow down but i did, thinking ....... ****

[Brimma]

You have 14 days to wait for the letter, not a month

[Oli3000]

No markings = they cannot prove the speed you were travelling.

Then there is the fact that cameras are only licensed for use in specific directions. As far as I am aware there are none that can take pictures of cars travelling in either direction.

[silver_fox]

No markings = they cannot prove the speed you were travelling.

Thats what i thought, but wasn't sure ...

[Medivac]

Was it a gatso? (Square orange box with square lens). Because im pretty sure they only work from behind. If it has a round lens, called a truvelo, they can take forward facing pictures.

[silver_fox]

Was it a gatso? (Square orange box with square lens). Because im pretty sure they only work from behind. If it has a round lens, called a truvelo, they can take forward facing pictures.

It was one of the grey ones with 2 lenses / flash

[littleade]

Was it facing towards you or behind. If it was towards you I believe it would have been flashing a single car going in the other direction-they flash twice at a set time between flashes so if anyone claims they were not speeding and there was something wrong with the camera then they use the lines that run across the road (again they are a set distance apart) to calculate the speed because there's no lines on your side of the road I recon you're safe......

[Medivac]

like that? http://www.speedcamerasuk.com/peek.htm If so, also rear facing.

[silver_fox]

like that? http://www.speedcamerasuk.com/peek.htm If so, also rear facing.

It was facing towards me. It wasn't a camera like the one in the link. It's one of the older ones with quite a big box, the lense in the bottom left and a silver reflective bit (flash) in the top right.

[Brimma]

Bottom line is, if you hadn't been speeding, you wouldn't have to worry about any of this anyway

Maybe a lesson learned if nothing else?

[Avalon]

Scotland has different privacy laws regarding photographing people's faces if I remember correctly so face first to a camera wasn't usable. Also a camera on one side of a dual carriage way can't cover the other side from what I understand.

[DanHam]

How much were you over the limit?

[Brimma]

Scotland has different privacy laws regarding photographing people's faces if I remember correctly

Surely the Scots aren't that ugly

[silver_fox]

How much were you over the limit?

about 85/90

[Brimma]

about 85/90

I can just see a whole waft of sympathy blowing out of the door

[expostmanpat]

If it was a 'white' flash then it would not be at you travelling toward it.The front facing cameras have a red flash. Although equally distracting when they flash you

Edit: In anycase 85 indicated in a Skoda would probably not be fast enough to trigger a camera in a 70 limit. though 90 might.

[Guest BigJase88]

Tut tut!

Trying to park your fabia into the octavias exhaust?

[Red Fox]

if its a gatzo 2 then they don't need the lines on the road to get you. they can work out your speed electronically, removes the need to employ someone to look at the 2 pictures from a gatzo 1 and work out how fast you were going.

[littleade]

I think in the interests of the wider forum silver fox should travel in the opposite direction tomorrow at an indicated 90 and when the NIP arrives let us know the.actual speed so we know how accurate Skoda speedos are.....

[Turbostream]

You should move to Birmingham. They have turned them all off...for now.

[Blanco]

Dont worry about it mate, they cant flash you front on.

[MattH]

Bottom line is, if you hadn't been speeding, you wouldn't have to worry about any of this anyway

Maybe a lesson learned if nothing else?

Because you've never been over the limit?

[Brimma]

Putting my bestest 'holier than thou' cap on, and assuming your speedo is accurate

If it did catch you, you're bang to rights

If it didn't catch you, it should have done

Simples

[Brimma]

Because you've never been over the limit?

That's irrelevant

I'm not the one posting on a public forum asking the question

And I've never had a NIP or a point on my licence in 29 years of driving

Next question

[silver_fox]

I can just see a whole waft of sympathy blowing out of the door

I wasn't looking for sympathy tbh, just peoples knowledge of speed cameras.