Camera Flashes - Wed Eve on way to Le Mans

[ukcobra]

For the last 2 years I have taken an 8pm tunnel crossing to get to Le Mans around 3.30am on the Thursday morning. We always take the same Autoroute direct to Le Mans through Rouen.

On at least 2 locations, a forward facing camera flashed and I was not speeding. It is particularly hard to speed in a Motorhome.

Did anyone else get flashed on the way to Le Mans, and in particular, does anyone know why I was flashed ?

The Motorhome is 2.85m high, so my guess is that perhaps it thought I was a truck, or perhaps it was just defective.

[a.christie]

You were probably in an area maybe a viaduct or Aire where you were supposed to reduce your speed.Could have been for your safety due to possible crosswinds. Normal reductions from 110 Kph to 90Kph.There are a couple of these on the A28.

[Voldemort]

Some of the continental roadworks reduction zones can be longer than actual countries. Are you sure you weren't in an area with a reduced speed limit?

[DMN]

My Dad got flashed on the road from Rouen down on Wednesday morning at silly O'Clock. A car passing me got flashed Thursday on the same section.

[ukcobra]

I checked, we were not in a restricted zone, and were under the speed limit by about 20 kph.

[Petrolhead_Rich]

Also got flashed coming out of rouen, in a van, at the time we were only doing about 100kph in a 130 limit, assumed it must have been defective camera or checking class of vehicle and thought we were a lorry!

I'll let you know if I hear anything from it!

[ukcobra]

As the Fixed cameras are unlikely to result in any notifications until sometime in 2017, I do not expect to hear anything about it in the post.
However, a forward facing flash at night for someone who was doing the speed limit was a little unsafe.
I was flashed by at least two cameras on the way to Le Mans, so I would suspect both could not be faulty and possibly related to the height of the vehicle, as previous years in a lower vehicle (T5 camper) did not yield the same results.

I am driving that way again in August, we'll see if it happens again.

[webby23]

Got flashed doing 95kph in a 90kph zone near the Belgian border a few months ago, nothing ever came of it.

[lowdrag]

a.christie said:

You were probably in an area maybe a viaduct or Aire where you were supposed to reduce your speed.Could have been for your safety due to possible crosswinds. Normal reductions from 110 Kph to 90Kph.There are a couple of these on the A28.

If we are talking fixed cameras that is, I'm afraid, rubbish. For example, the law on motorways is 130 kph or 110 kph if it is raining. Rain includes mist and fog. There is no way to change the camera settings for the lower limit, so it stays at 130 kph. Just how you got flashed at the speed you were doing is a mystery but take comfort in the fact that you have UK plates and they can't touch you. The UK refused to sign the intercountry agreement on the basis of the Data Protection Act.

[ukcobra]

I know the viaduct speed restrictions well, as I have used this route 4 times a year for the past 10 years, for both Le Mans trips and family holidays to France.
It was not there, but much earlier on in the journey.
As I stated before, we were under the speed limit, the SatNav/GPS confirmed it should be a 130 kph area, we were doing about 110 kph.

[Petrolhead_Rich]

lowdrag said:

a.christie said:

You were probably in an area maybe a viaduct or Aire where you were supposed to reduce your speed.Could have been for your safety due to possible crosswinds. Normal reductions from 110 Kph to 90Kph.There are a couple of these on the A28.

If we are talking fixed cameras that is, I'm afraid, rubbish. For example, the law on motorways is 130 kph or 110 kph if it is raining. Rain includes mist and fog. There is no way to change the camera settings for the lower limit, so it stays at 130 kph. Just how you got flashed at the speed you were doing is a mystery but take comfort in the fact that you have UK plates and they can't touch you. The UK refused to sign the intercountry agreement on the basis of the Data Protection Act.

The limit is permanently lowered on viaducts to 90kph with a fixed camera at one end regardless of weather & is well signposted. The OP is referring to a fixed camera in a 130kph section of motorway that was flashing away at speeds well below 130! (in our case ~100kph)

[lowdrag]

Totally agree with you, perhaps my bad writing. But the point was that they can't change the set speed of the camera according to the weather like they can on the M25. Whatever, he's clean and green anyway.