Average Speed Camera A34

[Turboduck]

Hi guys a question about the Average speed camera going South towards Chilton, Milton and Newbury. What I'd like to know is what the actual speed you need to maintain through it. What has got me confused is that it has speed limit changes throughout the duration of the time you are being monitored. It goes from 50 -40 - 30. My satnav recorded me going through the Average Speed check at 36 I'm worried that as 30 was the lowest limit I might of been clocked!

Here is a youtube link to a video of that stretch of road: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy0vwK0ntGE

Edited by Mattf2 on Monday 27th July 09:44

[gothatway]

I cannot really see anything confusing about this. Try staying at (no more than) 50 in the 50 limit, 40 in the 40 and 30 in the 30 - subject of course to other traffic. Then you'll be all right :-)

If I were responsible for raising funds from speeding fines I would of course put a speed trap in the 30 limit, expecting to catch fools who decided they could get away with working out an average speed and sticking to it throughout - though they would run the risk in the 50 limit of being tail-gated as they would have been driving at less than the limit. Why would anyone do that ?

[xjay1337]

I would imagine the system is set at the usual 50mph limit.

I go there regularly being a newbury boy and just sit at 50 the whole way.

[MX51ROD]

Isn't cruise control great on sections covered by average speed cameras , on these sections I use TomTom to monitor speed and set my cruise by that , generally I am passing all those relying on the speedo
also on cars I have with inbuilt sat nav I have noted the discrepancy of the speedo , under reading speed , and been able to cruise accordingly

[Mattf2]

Thanks guys, thinking I should be okay I slowed down to the correct speed at each section so I guess I can't do more than that! Assuming that it only clocks you if you average over 50 I am definitly in the clear! Pretty sure others went through much faster than me as well.