Speed Camera Direction

[birdofprey]

Is it true that speed cameras will only pick you up if they are on the same side of the road as yourself?

[Lakitu]

No, I got busted whizzing down the single carriageway on the A1, I lifted my foot off the accelarator when I spotted the camera in the distance, saw it was on the other side of the road and also pointing toward me, so I sank the foot again thinking what you have just asked, and was papped :(

[Panic Button]

Sorry, I shouldn't have laughed.

[Lakitu]

LOL, it's my own fault, I'm laughing now but the air was rather blue at the time

[birdofprey]

This was on one of those three-lane hills where two are available for those going uphill.

I was just overtaking the slower traffic and saw the white lines in my path. I looked over and noticed the box on the other side of the road.

I was only doing just under seventy and then only to get past the traffic.

I did not see a flash but I don't know if they all flash.

This will really cheese me off because I have a 35 year unblemished record!

[naky-nag-nat]

I thought that but no... got done in the Wirral the other week by a camera 'on the other side of the road' ;o((

[New Judge]

You may be fortunate.

The Association of Chief Police Officers' guidelines suggest that a fixed penalty is not applied (in a 60mph zone, which I assume this is) until 68mph. So, depending how much "just under seventy" you were travelling, you may have got away with it.

[birdofprey]

Thanks for that optimistic reply New Judge.

The trouble is I'm not sure whether the limit was fifty or not.

It is the road from Helston to Lizard and there were so many different changes of speed limit I was bamboozled.

One would think that in a three-lane situation like that it would be 60 but I can't be sure and I am not going to drive all the way back just to find out.

[Panic Button]

Also your speedo will be over reading - most of them do as they are allowed to over read but not under read.

[pink-kittens]

Was it a duel carriage or single carriage way?

[jimbob703]

One interesting point to note is with SPECS cameras - which check your average speed over a section of road you have to stay in one lane for them to work e.g. if you pass the first camera in the slow lane then change to the middle lane before you reach the second camera your speed can't be validated. Read it in the motoring section of the Daily Mirror if anyone wants to contradict me - blame them :-)