Another speed camera situation - IR lamp?

[FreeLitres]

Gents,

I was driving towards this camera at night time:


As I was approaching, I noticed that a red light started to glow on the camera for about 1.5 seconds. It wasn't super bright, but bright enough to catch my attention. It looked very similar to the Infra-red lamp glow on my night vision wildlife camera.

I glanced down at my speedo and there is a chance that it might have been reading slightly over the posted speed limit.

My questions;

Can this camera type capture oncoming speeding offences? (Camera is on the opposite verge with markers on the the road in both lanes)

If they can capture IR images, is the light/lamp fairly dull or quite bright flashes?

Am I going to get a letter?

[Saleen836]

Some reading for you....
https://www.speedcamerasuk.com/speedcurb.htm

[ElectricPics]

Looks similar to a Truvelo wire activated camera - they use an IR flash that's a short soft pinkish glow.

[FreeLitres]

It looks like the Speedcurb only monitors outward moving traffic so I should be OK hopefully.

This is the section of road downstream from the camera;


Are those dark lines the sensors/induction loops that trigger the camera? If so, it only looks on the downstream side. I did see one website saying that camera type can use induction loops OR radar/laser to trigger. Hopefully I'll keep my clean licence.

Incidentally, if there was a speeding car triggering the camera but the car coming in the opposite direction happened to be photoed speeding at the same time, could the oncoming driver get prosecuted? Is the legal case only based on the output of the sensors?

[Boosted LS1]

It's amazng isn't it. The amount of effort the powers that be go to prosecute motorists for breaking the speed limit.

[syl]

Do you think they'd bother so much if they couldn't make money doing it? Safety cameras my arse.

[ElectricPics]

FreeLitres said:

It looks like the Speedcurb only monitors outward moving traffic so I should be OK hopefully.

This is the section of road downstream from the camera;


Are those dark lines the sensors/induction loops that trigger the camera? If so, it only looks on the downstream side. I did see one website saying that camera type can use induction loops OR radar/laser to trigger. Hopefully I'll keep my clean licence.

Incidentally, if there was a speeding car triggering the camera but the car coming in the opposite direction happened to be photoed speeding at the same time, could the oncoming driver get prosecuted? Is the legal case only based on the output of the sensors?

Yes, the loops activate the camera so traffic travelling in the other direction are OK unless there's another set of loops as some of these can be turned round.