Private road 'speed camera'

[rockford22]

Today I ended up down a road which subsequently became marked as private (painted in white lettering on the road). This road leads to a large multi national refinery and is a dead end it a mile or so further down.

Driving to find a suitable place to turn I passed what looked like a private speed camera. A quarter the size of a gatso, rectangular, painted yellow and with a single large lens facing against direction of travel. At the base was a waterproof box secured with a padlock. It had no wording or logos on it. The road was marked with the usual 30mph signs and even had a little safety camera sign below it.

Is there any way this can be used as enforceable evidence?

Why would the council erect safety camera warning signs on a private road?

[Gavia]

Maybe the refinery have erected it to dissuade employees from driving too fast down the road. Any enforcement would be employment related.

A mate used to work at AWE in Aldermaston and the MPs on site enforced speed limits quite rigorously and points went into your licence. I know your situation is a little different.

[Some Guy]

Might be an ANPR one if there has been fly tipping there.

[Type R Tom]

I have heard of cameras being used to enforce site speed limits and then staff are disciplined though internal procedures. Doubt anything will come of it although breaking a posted limit somewhere you don't know probably isn't smart.

[lbc]

As others have said, if on private land, this will be for employees or contractors that can be disciplined for excess speed.

[rockford22]

Thanks for replies - I had thought it could perhaps be used for internal discipline but had not seen in practice. The road itself is well sighted and straight with just fields either side....I am curious how it could be worth company investment to police a speed limit.

Perhaps ANPR anti fly tiping makes more sense given the remote location but camera looked unlike anything I have seen in the UK before.

(For any doubters I was in a 1.4 Polo seeking a national trust car park with a car full of dogs, not out to find the next top road )

[Plug Life]

Maybe the camera has been placed by mumsnet. Mums are everywhere!

[lbc]

rockford22 said:

I am curious how it could be worth company investment to police a speed limit.

Health & Safety at work is taken very seriously.

Just one accident claim for an employer could be millions of pounds.

A speed camera with signed speed limits would be a bargain to prove against negligence.

[Zedboy]

My last job at a business park in the Midlands had car park mafiosi using a speed gun randomly with reports sent to employers ... three strikes and you were barred from the site. Ridiculous 10mph limit too!

[SpamCan]

lbc said:

As others have said, if on private land, this will be for employees or contractors that can be disciplined for excess speed.

Very much this.

[DrDeAtH]

Won't somebody think of the children!

[Ryvita]

Gavia said:

A mate used to work at AWE in Aldermaston and the MPs on site enforced speed limits quite rigorously and points went into your licence. I know your situation is a little different.

The main runway down the middle of the AWE Aldermaston site was infamous for both speeding and speed enforcement by the on-site MOD-plod. Coppers with radar guns AND real guns. Very scary.

Of course, I certainly never sped on that lovely, arrow straight quarter mile...

[youngricharduk]

The Nissan plant in Sunderland has a speed camera on the site for employees.

[Gavia]

DrDeAtH said:

Won't somebody think of the children!

What a weird post