Typical, now I now longer have my speedy little Fabia VRS I am pretty sure I picked up a ticket on Saturday in Chepstow doing 37ish (definately not 40 or over) in my Octy II estate. Believe it or not didn't even have my foot on the accelerator as was just letting car roll down hill after lights by the hospital. Never even saw the b******s until nearly upon them. Glad to say have always opposed the way speed cameras are used so am not being hypocritical in my condemnation of them. The only satisfaction is that on a staff of 30 I am the last to pick up a ticket for speeding, surely that says something about the system as none of us are under 30 and we are not exactly speed enthusiasts.

Sorry just wanted to rant, I get very annoyed when people argue that these mobile cameras are there for safety reasons, ha ha.

Exactly why I have have got Road Angel. You where in effect probably only just over the limit 37 on your speedo is actually more like 34-35 in reality. Dont book you with most forces until you 10%+2mph over the limit. One momentery lack of concentration and you have 3 points! Ok just the same thing and yep its a kiddie in front and not a camera I admit and thats a different ball game. But even talking to fellow intsructors we feel they are going over the top with these safety vans. You rarely see them at known accident blackspots where speed really does kill, but not many people speed. But you often see them where the money will start rolling in the minute the film starts rolling.

I use Tomtom with the camera databse to try and help spot the cameras.

I agree with Andys comments though, without some kind of warning device you spend so much time just looking for cameras.

We have a good spot near me where the camera van parks up, and you dont really see if its there till the last minute. The road is a 40 limit, and to my knowledge since the road was opened 20 years ago there have been NO accidents at the location, to me it just seems like a way of getting money.

Another place near where I live is also a 40 limit dual carriageway, but the road has small up/down hill. They sit at the bottom of the down hill and nab motorists as they come over the brow of the hill. Locals including me know this, so go at the limit over the hill untill they see the van is not parked there then drive tend to drive at a more civilised speed for the road.

Yep, or hidden away on the sliproad behind the hills

just thought id share this with you...... i was driving through wilmslow a year or so ago and spotted a shamera van, just as you came out of a national speed limit down to 30 there is a layby, was he parked in this ....no he was on the pavement under some huge weeping willow trees, so i did my delivery and came back and parked in said layby put my truck on tacho break, needless to say camera guy comes over telling me to move i tell him not for 45mins (tacho break) argument ensues him telling me obstructing said camera was against the law to which point i tell him parking on the pavement is against the law i was having fun winding this guy up, he goes away in a huff threatening police action, just before i was about to leave almost an hour later my new best mate comes tearing past me on the pavement giving me the V`s as he joined the road and drove away, i never felt more satisfied in my life

just thought id share this with you...... i was driving through wilmslow a year or so ago and spotted a shamera van, just as you came out of a national speed limit down to 30 there is a layby, was he parked in this ....no he was on the pavement under some huge weeping willow trees, so i did my delivery and came back and parked in said layby put my truck on tacho break, needless to say camera guy comes over telling me to move i tell him not for 45mins (tacho break) argument ensues him telling me obstructing said camera was against the law to which point i tell him parking on the pavement is against the law i was having fun winding this guy up, he goes away in a huff threatening police action, just before i was about to leave almost an hour later my new best mate comes tearing past me on the pavement giving me the V`s as he joined the road and drove away, i never felt more satisfied in my life

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Typical' date=' now I now longer have my speedy little Fabia VRS I am pretty sure I picked up a ticket on Saturday in Chepstow doing 37ish (definately not 40 or over) in my Octy II estate. Believe it or not didn't even have my foot on the accelerator as was just letting car roll down hill after lights by the hospital. Never even saw the b******s until nearly upon them. Glad to say have always opposed the way speed cameras are used so am not being hypocritical in my condemnation of them. The only satisfaction is that on a staff of 30 I am the last to pick up a ticket for speeding, surely that says something about the system as none of us are under 30 and we are not exactly speed enthusiasts.

Sorry just wanted to rant, I get very annoyed when people argue that these mobile cameras are there for safety reasons, ha ha.[/quote']

Woohoo! You're not a road virgin anymore!

Thanks Mil! Ha ha! Thanks for all your comments everyone. By the way there are no accidents on the road where the van was parked and the houses are only on one side set back with a very wide pavement and very long drives (houses worth a bomb there), also when you get to the round about the speed limit becomes 40mph, what sense is there in that, I would never try and take that roundabout at anywhere near 40.

Still it won't sound so good when I rant on about speed cameras just being there for the revenue now, people will just think its sour grapes.

just thought id share this with you...... i was driving through wilmslow a year or so ago and spotted a shamera van, just as you came out of a national speed limit down to 30 there is a layby, was he parked in this ....no he was on the pavement under some huge weeping willow trees, so i did my delivery and came back and parked in said layby put my truck on tacho break, needless to say camera guy comes over telling me to move i tell him not for 45mins (tacho break) argument ensues him telling me obstructing said camera was against the law to which point i tell him parking on the pavement is against the law i was having fun winding this guy up, he goes away in a huff threatening police action, just before i was about to leave almost an hour later my new best mate comes tearing past me on the pavement giving me the V`s as he joined the road and drove away, i never felt more satisfied in my life

Loving that story!

There's road works at the minute on the A19 just south of Sunderland, well the road narrows a bit and there's not normally any work being done. Limit goes down to 50 and there is nearly always a Camera Van parked at the side of the road. All they are doing here is making money, they could argue that they are protecting the maintenance workforce but they are never there when I see the camera van!

just thought id share this with you...... i was driving through wilmslow a year or so ago and spotted a shamera van, just as you came out of a national speed limit down to 30 there is a layby, was he parked in this ....no he was on the pavement under some huge weeping willow trees, so i did my delivery and came back and parked in said layby put my truck on tacho break, needless to say camera guy comes over telling me to move i tell him not for 45mins (tacho break) argument ensues him telling me obstructing said camera was against the law to which point i tell him parking on the pavement is against the law i was having fun winding this guy up, he goes away in a huff threatening police action, just before i was about to leave almost an hour later my new best mate comes tearing past me on the pavement giving me the V`s as he joined the road and drove away, i never felt more satisfied in my life

I've considered doing that

I can't see how it can be illegal. Yes, obstructing a Police Officer is, but parking at the side of the road in front of a camera operated by a civvie can't be, surely?

just thought id share this with you...... i was driving through wilmslow a year or so ago and spotted a shamera van, just as you came out of a national speed limit down to 30 there is a layby, was he parked in this ....no he was on the pavement under some huge weeping willow trees, so i did my delivery and came back and parked in said layby put my truck on tacho break, needless to say camera guy comes over telling me to move i tell him not for 45mins (tacho break) argument ensues him telling me obstructing said camera was against the law to which point i tell him parking on the pavement is against the law i was having fun winding this guy up, he goes away in a huff threatening police action, just before i was about to leave almost an hour later my new best mate comes tearing past me on the pavement giving me the V`s as he joined the road and drove away, i never felt more satisfied in my life

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It might be... howerver parking up in a lay by to have a legally mandated tacho break isn't, the fact that the camera was being obsured is by the by... the answer to that is don't try and hide the camera, put it in the layby thus stopping anyone from parking and obscuring it.

it makes me sad... all the police are intrested in easy nicks and their pension.

I mean, one police officer gets shot dead (ok another one got shot but lived) and they take 6 suspects up a moterway in 8 vans (what they do, chop em up then glue them back together again at the other end?) with full police escort down a motoway that they shut down and had TV coverage (gripping as it was watching vans on a motorway) to show how big and strong they are then but are so impotent and actually stopping crime all they can say to asian shop owners is "be on the lookout for someone who will try and barracde you in, douse you in petrol and burn you alive" well whoopy f**king do, how good you them!

This place has gone to the dogs, once we were a kingdom run by a King, now we are a country run by a cu..

Justice moves swift for hapless drivers.

read your post with interest as like you Ijust got a ticket for 39mph in a 30 mph zone first one after 30 years of driving.

please could you tell me what was the out come of yours - what sort of fine/points?

and how does it impact upon insurance premiums?

and more generally - as I know little about this stuff - is it worth getting legal representation for this or not?

cheers

ed

read your post with interest as like you Ijust got a ticket for 39mph in a 30 mph zone first one after 30 years of driving.

please could you tell me what was the out come of yours - what sort of fine/points?

and how does it impact upon insurance premiums?

and more generally - as I know little about this stuff - is it worth getting legal representation for this or not?

For that, I would guess at a

Only took me 7 years to get mine, which I actually thought was pretty good for a red blooded, throttle happy male. Is a bit gutting though, and the only thing that makes me smile about it now, is that the points have just come off my license and its "clean" again.

I know the feeling. I clocked up 2 speedings from mobile cameras, one at the end of a dual carriageway where the limit changes from 70 to 60 and the lanes go from 4 to 3. I even waved at the camera thinking I was within the bounds of the law!

all the police are intrested in easy nicks and their pension.

Given that you have amazing powers of telepathy to be able to work this out , how about using them for something useful.

Of course there are some police like that , but there are vastly more who are working hard in a very difficult job.