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Just driving to work as I was passing a lay by there was a camera van hidden behind a lorry. There was no chance of anyone seeing it until they had passed it. I wasn't over the speed limit but thought they were suppose to make cameras easy to see. Last week there was one hidden behind a bush.
streaky said:
Was if forward or rear facing camera?
How do you tell ... when it's inside a hidden van? - Streaky
Hi Streaky.
Cameras can only point out of the back or each side, not out of the front. So presumably our friend who starting this thread was able to see which direction the van was pointing.
Gary
r32 said:
Unless it was side-on
Martha's posting this and then hasn't come back...so speculation is high... It's in the balance....
On the balance of probablities, the camera van will be a Scamera Partnerships and should therefore have a forward facing camera. The equipment in such vans is designed for such, as to capture the image of the driver. The said camera, as you probably know can be pointed out of the back of the van, or out of each side, but not the front.
We'll just have to wait to see what Martha saw. If she past it so quick that she couldn't really see, lets home it was a 'Scenes of Crime' van, which in my force look almost exactly the same, ie: crest on each door and reflective hatched markings on the rear doors.
Street
Streetcop said:
Streetcop said:
Was if forward or rear facing camera?
How do you tell ... when it's inside a hidden van? - Streaky
Hi Streaky.
Cameras can only point out of the back or each side, not out of the front. So presumably our friend who starting this thread was able to see which direction the van was pointing.
Gary
Just worth mentioning that some forces use mobile gatsos that can be taken out of the van and placed in front of the van, so they get you from behind.
Malc
The Safety Camera Partnership vans in Worcester are forward facing..
Camera sat between driver and passenger seat, van connected to three strips in road..
I read some stats that Ma gave me, capable of hitting 6 cars a second apparently!!!
Some folk in our office managed to get done for 32 in a 30!!!
Slinky
Camera sat between driver and passenger seat, van connected to three strips in road..
I read some stats that Ma gave me, capable of hitting 6 cars a second apparently!!!
Some folk in our office managed to get done for 32 in a 30!!!
Slinky
I saw onw on bridge though roadwords in newbury the other day, I think it was police not a scamera partnership as the transit van was in yellow and blue check police markings but the side door was open on the bridge. The speed limit had just dropped to 40 but i was doing about 43 according to my snooper's GPS when i saw it. However i had just come around a corner and i think i saw it before it could see me, i was also in the slow lane being overtaken so others were a tempting target, also my snooper's laser alert did not go off. I was thinking in reference to this thread was it trying to get people from behind on the other carriageway? considering for them the speed limit was just about to increase they may have been trying to catch those preemptively accelerating. I'm still worried tho cos i havnt been driving 2 years and i already have 3 points, 3 remaining. Do all camera vans use laser out of interest?
Peter Ward said:
Avon and Somerset scam scum partnerfraud had them operating through windscreen across carriageway!
3pts and £60 fine to prove it after discounting it as a threat - even saw the photograph.
I thought the cameras were not homologated for use through glass?
The Lasertech LTI20-20 laser gun is not supposed to be used through glass. Some other types of gun can be used through glass.
It may be worth finding out what sort of equipment they are using…
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