Safety camera van on the m74

[chimi500]

Was coming back from a weeks holiday in scotland when i saw a 'safty camera' van parked on a bridge with its side doors open, my road angel didnt go off, have i been done , i was doing about 85-90 mph?
thanx

[puggit]

You tell us if you've been done in 2 weeks!

[mojocvh]

location plse

MoJo

[deeps]

Are you sure it was a camera van, presumably the road angel has a laser detector, or is it GPS only? If yes it should have gone off if the scammer was actively scamming.

[baz1985]

M74 was previously speeding heaven, but now its all scamera van'd.

Was possible to do autobahn speeds all day long. Basically from M6 jct 36 to the end of the M74 is stay below 80 territory. Stick the cruise and fall asleep thats road safety!

[chimi500]

mojocvh said:

location plse MoJo

i had just passed lockerbie i think, hope this helps.

my road angel did have th laser attchment on it but it didnt go off.

[mojocvh]

Same Mofo's that got me then--Oh it's the A74(M)at that point a lurvly piece of tarmac, well it was!

MoJo.

[hanse cronje]

well none today

two cumbria cars on bridges but looking the other way

which was good for the guy in the red bmw who on the way to Glasgow went screaming past and then on the way home went screaming past again

[TripleS]

It seemed OK southbound early afternoon yesterday. It's to be hoped I'm right!

Best wishes all,
Dave.

[ashes]

My friend got done for 85 on that bit, but hope you are lucky..

[mojocvh]

www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?t=213639

[mickk]

I travel to and from Scotland a lot, and i often see those money making machines on the bridges, just after xmas was the last time and my road angel activated for the first time with
'LASER ALERT' good job i was in my van.

[slim_boy_fat]

chimi500 said:

Was coming back from a weeks holiday in scotland when i saw a 'safty camera' van parked on a bridge with its side doors open, my road angel didnt go off, have i been done , i was doing about 85-90 mph? thanx

I work in Dumfries but live in Glasgow so am up and down the M74 quite a bit!!

Probably your only saving grace might be if the van was parked above the other side of the road, as they cannot fire the laser accross the central reservation. Other than that you might be lucky and have bald tyres and a speedo error of 10%.

Good luck. Got to stay below 80 on the M74 now.

[mojocvh]

I've read here that 79 is the figure in cumbria

MoJo

[slim_boy_fat]

mojocvh said:

I've read here that 79 is the figure in cumbria MoJo

Whats that got to do with the M74?

[mojocvh]

slim_boy_fat said:

mojocvh said: I've read here that 79 is the figure in cumbria MoJo Whats that got to do with the M74?

Absolutly fuc4 all unless you read a map.

[DeMolay]

The road at Lockerbie is the A74(M), by the way - and NOT the M74. If a NIP states it was M74 then you could contest it on the grounds of imprecise locus.

As for the threshold of speed with Dumfries scammers: it's 84mph. Anything above and you're nicked. I have that on very, very good authority.

Wait for two weeks before cracking open the champagne, although I would expect the NIP within a week, providing you're the RK.