m40: police transit van with speed camera parked on bridge

m40: police transit van with speed camera parked on bridge

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stair

20 posts

171 months

Friday 23rd September 2016
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I've got an old Valentine V1, but I stopped using it when they started talking about banning radar detectors. Did the ban ever get put into law?

drf765

187 posts

94 months

Friday 23rd September 2016
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OldGermanHeaps said:
Are the laser jammers reliable?
Reliable in what way?


Ask Mr Stephenson.

Nigel Stephenson: Driver jailed for using 'laser jammer' to avoid being caught by speed cameras


19:11, 24 Feb 2015
Updated 19:48, 24 Feb 2015
By Dave Higgens

Nigel Stephenson, 65, was charged with perverting the course of justice after officers discovered the device while searching his Jaguar

Police have warned drivers against fitting speed camera jamming devices onto their cars after a motorist was jailed for using a laser blocker on his Jaguar.

Nigel Stephenson was arrested after cops recorded error codes when he drove his car past police mobile speed cameras.



When officers examined his Jaguar, they discovered the laser jammer fitted to the front of the vehicle and he was charged with two offences of perverting the course of justice.

Stephenson, 65, of Steeton, near Keighley, West Yorkshire, was sentenced to two months in prison at Bradford Crown Court for perverting the course of justice and banned from driving for six months.

He was also ordered to pay £1,000 costs.

In the first instance an officer operating a camera on the A59 Harrogate to Skipton road on August 4, last year, picked up an error code and detected audible feedback from his equipment when it was directed towards Stephenson's white Jaguar.

Four days later, the same thing happened as Stephenson drove his Jaguar along the A629 at Crosshills near Keighley.

Both incidents were captured on video by cops and Stephenson was arrested, a spokesman for North Yorkshire Police said.

The spokesman said that Judge Jonathan Rose ordered the destruction of the device and also of a snooper device fitted to the dashboard, which alerted the driver to the presence of speed cameras.



Stephenson was issued with a caution for using a similar device in 2010, the force confirmed.

PC Andy Forth said: "The sentence handed out to Mr Stephenson reflects how seriously the criminal justice system takes attempts to pervert the course of justice.

"Having previously been issued with a caution for a similar offence, Mr Stephenson chose to ignore that warning and believed he could cheat the laws that are made to protect road users.



"The result sends a clear message that North Yorkshire Police are determined to keep the roads as safe as possible and will use to technology to its full capacity to bring anyone found flouting the law to justice."



Go figure!

Davidonly

1,080 posts

192 months

Saturday 24th September 2016
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stair said:
I've got an old Valentine V1, but I stopped using it when they started talking about banning radar detectors. Did the ban ever get put into law?
Still legal to own and use laser or radar DETECTORS. Jammers are a grey area. If they are used as park distance controllers or to open garage doors they are OK. If a driver is daft enough to admit the thing is used to jam police LIDAR then I guess they might get prosecuted as per story above...

GPS totally fine...

smashy

3,030 posts

157 months

Monday 3rd October 2016
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Carl the op ,nasty, so many people hit 100 on that M40 so easy to do in a modern car and that motorway seems to suck you into that behaviour