Have i been done? (and what was he using)
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On my way back from work yesterday there was a police man stood at the side of the road. He was holiding a mobile device (unknown).
I guess I was doing about 30-35 (my speedo over reads)..... when compared to my road angel
The thing he had hold of was held close to his lower chest, he was not looking into it and it was not connected to any other unit.
Do modern mobile speed measuring units record images onto some kind of datacard inside the gun? or could it have been some kind of measuring device and if any cars were speeding he would of stopped us there and then?
I dont think it was a laser gun as he would have had to be looking through the lens to aim it accurately and passing cars
Thanks
I guess I was doing about 30-35 (my speedo over reads)..... when compared to my road angel
The thing he had hold of was held close to his lower chest, he was not looking into it and it was not connected to any other unit.
Do modern mobile speed measuring units record images onto some kind of datacard inside the gun? or could it have been some kind of measuring device and if any cars were speeding he would of stopped us there and then?
I dont think it was a laser gun as he would have had to be looking through the lens to aim it accurately and passing cars
Thanks
EU_Foreigner said:
Also note it is coming to the end of the month, so targets need to be met and he might not have had time to stop each car ...
What rubbish!They could have been their for all sorts of reasons.
DVD's suggestion of it being an accident investigator is entirely possible.
It could also have been traffic management assessing the site for future works/restrictions or they may simply have been monitoring traffic flow for a variety of reasons.
If you were doing 30-35mph then you have nothing to worry about unless of course it's a 20 limit.
This talk of targets is utter s**t! there is no set 'you will catch at least 100 speeding motorists a month' type statistic set by Govt. Sorry to be so blunt but it really does boil my p*ss!
The suggestion of somebody measuring a distance is perfectly plausible. Likewise is it a handheld laser speed gun, which he may or may not have been resting at the time, as with the handheld guns, you need to evidence what caused you to suspect the vehicle may have been speeding 'bonnet raising sharply, sound of sharp acceleration, vehicle coming at you like a Harrier on takeoff' etc etc.
Also bear in mind with handheld speed guns, you will usually get stopped at the time, unless the officer clocks onto the fact that you're going so fast he'll be turned into red goo on the road if he attempts to stop you.
One more point is that they set thresholds, ie: they may be in a 30mph zone, stopping people to give words of advice at 35mph, but not start offering out the SP30's until 40mph is crossed. This takes into account road conditions, time of day, whether little Timmy is running around in the road with his football or not and so on.
I don't think you have too much to worry about, I would have imagined you would have been stopped at the time as the comment about the officer being worried about you flattening him shouldn't apply (i think you would be expecting a NIP if this were the case.)
The suggestion of somebody measuring a distance is perfectly plausible. Likewise is it a handheld laser speed gun, which he may or may not have been resting at the time, as with the handheld guns, you need to evidence what caused you to suspect the vehicle may have been speeding 'bonnet raising sharply, sound of sharp acceleration, vehicle coming at you like a Harrier on takeoff' etc etc.
Also bear in mind with handheld speed guns, you will usually get stopped at the time, unless the officer clocks onto the fact that you're going so fast he'll be turned into red goo on the road if he attempts to stop you.
One more point is that they set thresholds, ie: they may be in a 30mph zone, stopping people to give words of advice at 35mph, but not start offering out the SP30's until 40mph is crossed. This takes into account road conditions, time of day, whether little Timmy is running around in the road with his football or not and so on.
I don't think you have too much to worry about, I would have imagined you would have been stopped at the time as the comment about the officer being worried about you flattening him shouldn't apply (i think you would be expecting a NIP if this were the case.)
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of course, the idea of having those things to evidence comes from the little training manual of rubbish, along with things like 'making up your mind whether to issue a FPN before you leave your vehicle'... i'm just thinking that on the day in question, said officer with said device may have decided that it wasn't worth checking the OP because he wasn't moving like a cheetah with a homing missile up his ar$e.
Edited by JamesFiesta on Wednesday 30th January 09:22
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