Camera Vans!!!!!!!!
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Can police money machines, (sorry camera vans) do you for speeding with a camera looking out of their windscreens? Was driving through my home town today when I noticed at the last minute a police camera van parked on the grass verge on my side of the road, the van was facing me and its backside with the stripes and visible camera was facing up the direction I was going. Due to having no visible warnings or writing on its bonnet I didn't think it was a police van until I was right on it and saw the side of it, I was doing nearly 40 at the time!! I slowed right down and left it doing 30, Firstly would I get caught via the small camera inside the cab, or would it have warned them I was doing 40 upto the van and even though I was slower going past the camera in the back would they still have got me!!!!!!!
I don't think the speed awareness thing is an option here in rainy Scotland. I was always under the belief that the point of the high Viz at the back and side of the van where the cameras stick out is a sort or prewarning from a distance, and that they are not allowed to hide etc. Hence why cameras are now painted. But I distinctly saw a small camera stuck onto the front screen, as I was aproaching the van over the limit and hit the brakes, my concern is that this camera saw me approaching the front of the van over the limit and even though i slowed right down as I got to the van and went past the camera at the back under 30 they will have nabbed me for speeding upto the front of their van??????
Any speed camera will be focused on your plate at the point the limit begins and works at the speed of light with readings taken by lasers in micro-seconds. I thought I got away with one recently but they nabbed me a long, long way back. They now have a considerable range in terms of distance.
However, the ones I've seen operate either through a lowered side or rear window or hand-held sometimes usedby police motorcyclists, neither through any window.
However, the ones I've seen operate either through a lowered side or rear window or hand-held sometimes usedby police motorcyclists, neither through any window.
aikmanmosquito said:
NOt the question I am asking here!!!!! I thought the camera that does the money collecting was always at the back, as I approached the van I approached the front of it i.e. the windscreen end!!!!!!
OK keep your hair on
…my point is that if you were doing 30 you don't have to worry which end it is…Fingers crossed for you that you don't get a ticket.
My question seems to be getting missed. I approached a camera van that was parked on my side of the road with its front end facing me!! i.e. the windscreen /bonnet was facing me!! Now normally the camera that does the catching is either at the back of the van or the sides of the van. However I noticed a small camera mounted on the inside of the front windscreen facing the direction i had come, as I had approached the front of the van over the limit I am enquring if that camera was to allert the crew, or is it for the security of the van. Is it only the rear camera that can do me for speeding
they are great in crawley at the moment you will fin them in manor royal stood in the rear of their vans with both the doors open. No high vis vest on as they are in the vehicle you only see the rear of a van with the rear doors open you cant even see there is someone stood in the dark interior of the van wearing all black stood behind a black camera parked on the grass nothing visible until your alongside it. Not really criket but the speed some of the local inhabitants do is astronomic so it needs curbing.
aikmanmosquito said:
My question seems to be getting missed. I approached a camera van that was parked on my side of the road with its front end facing me!! i.e. the windscreen /bonnet was facing me!! Now normally the camera that does the catching is either at the back of the van or the sides of the van. However I noticed a small camera mounted on the inside of the front windscreen facing the direction i had come, as I had approached the front of the van over the limit I am enquring if that camera was to allert the crew, or is it for the security of the van. Is it only the rear camera that can do me for speeding
It probably had an ANPR camera so YES it had seen you but whether it had got you for speeding you will have to wait and see. Hopefully this answers your question except the speeding bit.www.anprcameras.co.uk/
here you go if interested. Not all anpr cameras do speed.
Edited by Pistachio on Tuesday 8th November 14:41
aikmanmosquito said:
Can anyone actually tell me what the camera stuck to the windscreen was for?
I think it is to collect evidence when you wheelie past on your motorbike, going the other way. The camera at the back collects your 'V' sign and the windscreen camera collects your numberplate.
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