A30 Near Bodmin, Cornwall

A30 Near Bodmin, Cornwall

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Blaster72

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10,772 posts

196 months

Tuesday 6th October 2015
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Can anyone help me out, I've just returned from a great holiday in Cornwall and found on my doorstep a Notice of Intended Prosecution from Devon and Cornwall Police.

Now, the time and date of the NIP is roughly around the time I was travelling down and I don't intend to contest it but I'd love to know where exactly I did this bit of speeding.

Does anyone know where this is and if so can you pin it on Google maps for me.

"A30 Temple Roadworks (Colliford Lake Towards Helland JCT), NR Bodmin, Cornwall.

Recorded speed was 50mph - Speed limit 40 mph.

I'm just curious if its a fixed camera or average speed as most roadworks are 50 limit. I can't remember this bit of the A30 at all but it was a long drive.\

Thanks.

tuffer

8,849 posts

266 months

Tuesday 6th October 2015
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From memory, just after Jamaica Inn.

Blaster72

Original Poster:

10,772 posts

196 months

Tuesday 6th October 2015
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Thanks Tuffer, I've also just found this.

http://www.kier-a30cornwall.co.uk/journey-impact/

Looks like it might have been average speed cameras. I'm surprised at that as I normally religiously stick to the limit in these, must have assumed it was 50mph - oops frown

tuffer

8,849 posts

266 months

Tuesday 6th October 2015
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Goes from dual to single carriageway, lots of camera signs but I cannot see a fixed camera on streetview, may have been a van.

themanwithnoname

1,634 posts

212 months

Tuesday 6th October 2015
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Yup, sadly that whole stretch is 40 at the moment - I was staying on the grounds of Lanhydrock only 2/3 weeks ago. Only other place I saw a fixed camera was a little further along in the national limit zone as you get to the bottom of the dip with the junctions and hatched boxes.

On the plus, I found a lovely route through the moor to avoid the roadworks.


Blaster72

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10,772 posts

196 months

Tuesday 6th October 2015
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Thanks all, just annoyed with myself now for doing this. Another £100 and 3pts frown

Allyc85

7,225 posts

185 months

Tuesday 6th October 2015
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Blaster72 said:
Thanks all, just annoyed with myself now for doing this. Another £100 and 3pts frown
No offer of a driving course instead?

Blaster72

Original Poster:

10,772 posts

196 months

Tuesday 6th October 2015
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No mention in the NIP, I'll have to see what comes. I did get caught a few months ago by a camera (after 15 years clean twice now in a couple of months) and then it was clearly mentioned on the NIP that it might be an option. As it happens, in that case I was too far over the limit to do a course.

If not, I'm on 6 points now for 3 years so need to be extra vigilante for those bloody cameras, and keep my speed down a bit.

russell_ram

321 posts

230 months

Wednesday 21st December 2016
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Bit of a thread resurrection but I've just had exactly the same. Recorded 50mph in 40MPH limit Temple works A30.

Now I'm a reasonably regular traveller on that road (the parents live in Fowey) and am fully aware that the cameras on the A30 are operational but, as far as I recall, the ones in the road works are marked as monitoring average speed? I will fully admit to rolling into the road works (west bound) at above 40mph - coasting down from 70mph off the existing dual carriageway as I do on every 'average' speed section I ever come across, but there is absolutely no way I recorded an average speed of 50mph over any significant section except for over a few hundred yards at the start? It's virtually impossible for a start as anyone experiencing the pleasures of that bit of road at the moment will tell you.

Is it really 'average'speed or is the first one a fixed speed camera?

Just a bit miffed.

tuffer

8,849 posts

266 months

Wednesday 21st December 2016
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Not seen that stretch but does it have a couple of cameras in quick succession at the start, may be average speed between those two.

TwistingMyMelon

6,385 posts

204 months

Wednesday 4th January 2017
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Thank god for Cruise control, often go through those road works late at night and will be the only car around for miles, feels like you are stood still after doing steady leptons.


Still beats sitting in a traffic jam for hours on a hot sunny day with 3 kids and 2 dogs in the car with 5 hours of driving left!

Chris71

21,535 posts

241 months

Wednesday 18th January 2017
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TwistingMyMelon said:
Thank god for Cruise control, often go through those road works late at night and will be the only car around for miles, feels like you are stood still after doing steady leptons.
yes

My current daily doesn't have cruise control and it's the only time I miss it. I'm starting to see the value of the speed limiter functions that a lot of cruise control equipped cars have too.

twoblacklines

1,575 posts

160 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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Blaster72 said:
Can anyone help me out, I've just returned from a great holiday in Cornwall and found on my doorstep a Notice of Intended Prosecution from Devon and Cornwall Police.

Now, the time and date of the NIP is roughly around the time I was travelling down and I don't intend to contest it but I'd love to know where exactly I did this bit of speeding.

Does anyone know where this is and if so can you pin it on Google maps for me.

"A30 Temple Roadworks (Colliford Lake Towards Helland JCT), NR Bodmin, Cornwall.

Recorded speed was 50mph - Speed limit 40 mph.

I'm just curious if its a fixed camera or average speed as most roadworks are 50 limit. I can't remember this bit of the A30 at all but it was a long drive.\

Thanks.
It is 50 normally and they changed it to 40, been going on months if not years and they even leave them on but unlit at night (including the speed signs - unlight!) when no one is doing anything. In cornwall speed cameras are purely cash machines for the council, they never put them outside schools only on safe dual carriageways. So glad I left cornwall. I have also seen scamera vans in between average speed cameras in Cornwall. They even park in fields or behind signs, my mother got caught doing 40 in a 50 and the scamera van was parked a few meters infront of the first reduction sign on a bend, ie so you can't see the new speed sign on approach. He must have mad a ton for the council christmas party that day!

Interestingly I have been in the NW for 3 months now and only seen one scamera van once.

Edited by twoblacklines on Saturday 21st January 22:31