Mobile speed enforcement van on M1 near Leicester
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Hi all,
A question regarding mobile speed vans and if they monitor and can catch someone speeding whilst driving themselves.
I was on the M1 last week near Leicester and I was going about 80ish in the overtaking lane, when the car in front of me braked abruptly.
When the traffic in the middle lane cleared, I saw that there was a mobile speed enforcement van in the slow lane. I’m just wondering do these vehicles need to be stationary to catch motorists or do they do it whilst driving on motorways as well?
It was one of these vans in the article below:
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news...
I don’t know if he saw me as there were cars in the middle lane and I was in the overtaking lane.
Any thoughts would be helpful, thank you!
A question regarding mobile speed vans and if they monitor and can catch someone speeding whilst driving themselves.
I was on the M1 last week near Leicester and I was going about 80ish in the overtaking lane, when the car in front of me braked abruptly.
When the traffic in the middle lane cleared, I saw that there was a mobile speed enforcement van in the slow lane. I’m just wondering do these vehicles need to be stationary to catch motorists or do they do it whilst driving on motorways as well?
It was one of these vans in the article below:
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news...
I don’t know if he saw me as there were cars in the middle lane and I was in the overtaking lane.
Any thoughts would be helpful, thank you!
Edited by PK14 on Tuesday 14th February 15:37
As I read that newspaper article, those are just parked speed camera vans - mobile because they are not permanently in one place.
Whether that van you saw was a mobile mobile camera van is not something I can answer, the reaction of the speeding driver in front of you is just a guilty reaction to seeing authority.
I used to live just off the A14 just north of Cambridge, and 4 out of 5 weekdays it was hopelessly snarled up thanks to collisions caused by people braking from 80 to 50 when they saw a fixed speed camera (in a 70 zone). The problem was solved when they changed to average speed cameras. No more unexpected hard braking down to speeds well below the limit. One person brakes hard, the next has to brake even harder after they have reacted, etc until some poor sod has nowhere to go and hits the now almost stationary traffic.
I suspect the "line on the bingo" comment refers to the way the original poster described the lanes on the motorway.
Whether that van you saw was a mobile mobile camera van is not something I can answer, the reaction of the speeding driver in front of you is just a guilty reaction to seeing authority.
I used to live just off the A14 just north of Cambridge, and 4 out of 5 weekdays it was hopelessly snarled up thanks to collisions caused by people braking from 80 to 50 when they saw a fixed speed camera (in a 70 zone). The problem was solved when they changed to average speed cameras. No more unexpected hard braking down to speeds well below the limit. One person brakes hard, the next has to brake even harder after they have reacted, etc until some poor sod has nowhere to go and hits the now almost stationary traffic.
I suspect the "line on the bingo" comment refers to the way the original poster described the lanes on the motorway.
QBee said:
As I read that newspaper article, those are just parked speed camera vans - mobile because they are not permanently in one place.
Whether that van you saw was a mobile mobile camera van is not something I can answer, the reaction of the speeding driver in front of you is just a guilty reaction to seeing authority.
I used to live just off the A14 just north of Cambridge, and 4 out of 5 weekdays it was hopelessly snarled up thanks to collisions caused by people braking from 80 to 50 when they saw a fixed speed camera (in a 70 zone). The problem was solved when they changed to average speed cameras. No more unexpected hard braking down to speeds well below the limit. One person brakes hard, the next has to brake even harder after they have reacted, etc until some poor sod has nowhere to go and hits the now almost stationary traffic.
I suspect the "line on the bingo" comment refers to the way the original poster described the lanes on the motorway.
Thank you for your help. Yeah I thought because it was a parked camera van they would not be monitoring speed on the M1 whilst driving 60+mph themselves. My assumption was that they may be moving to another location to set up there. I’ve never heard of a speed camera van catching drivers whilst they are driving themselves. Whether that van you saw was a mobile mobile camera van is not something I can answer, the reaction of the speeding driver in front of you is just a guilty reaction to seeing authority.
I used to live just off the A14 just north of Cambridge, and 4 out of 5 weekdays it was hopelessly snarled up thanks to collisions caused by people braking from 80 to 50 when they saw a fixed speed camera (in a 70 zone). The problem was solved when they changed to average speed cameras. No more unexpected hard braking down to speeds well below the limit. One person brakes hard, the next has to brake even harder after they have reacted, etc until some poor sod has nowhere to go and hits the now almost stationary traffic.
I suspect the "line on the bingo" comment refers to the way the original poster described the lanes on the motorway.
They're all out today.QBee said:
As I read that newspaper article, those are just parked speed camera vans - mobile because they are not permanently in one place.
I suspect the "line on the bingo" comment refers to the way the original poster described the lanes on the motorway.
1) Long time member, low number of posts.I suspect the "line on the bingo" comment refers to the way the original poster described the lanes on the motorway.
2) Random, over-worried post about being caught speeding.
3) 'Overtaking Lane'.
4) School Half-Term.
caziques said:
PK14 said:
I was on the M1 last week near Leicester and I was going about 80ish in the overtaking lane,
No such thing as an overtaking lane on a motorway.Edited by PK14 on Tuesday 14th February 15:37
Three lanes; inside or nearside lane, middle lane and outside or offside lane.
This is particularly important when discussing lanes on a roundabout; an outside lane to one man is what another man would consider to be the inside lane.
Many years ago in the late 1980's I read an article in a motoring magazine about an early version of a GATSO the police had started testing. This was back even before fixed cameras were a thing. The idea was an unmarked car would drive at a fixed speed in lane 2 with the GATSO pointing out of the windscreen and it would snap everyone who overtook the car.
Apparently, they were already a thing in Europe and the officer being interviewed told a story of nicking a long line of cars that came past him at some speed however amongst them was a German registered car which they think spotted the flash reflected in the car ahead of him and guessed what was going on and slowed down.
Obviously it never got deployed on a wider basis and it wasnt long before fixed cameras started popping up everywhere.
Apparently, they were already a thing in Europe and the officer being interviewed told a story of nicking a long line of cars that came past him at some speed however amongst them was a German registered car which they think spotted the flash reflected in the car ahead of him and guessed what was going on and slowed down.
Obviously it never got deployed on a wider basis and it wasnt long before fixed cameras started popping up everywhere.
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