Scamera van question

[r5gttgaz]

I was out in my car earlier today and going down a 60mph road, and oh look its the 40mph crew out for a tootle about you know 40 in a 60 40 on the motorway 40 in a 30 etc so i pulls out to get past booted it a little to get past a couple of others now im unsure if i was speeding but there was a police camera van on the verge but i was on the other side of the road overtaking, do they "see" both sides of the road or just the one lane im a bit unsure. Cheers Gaz

[Cooperman]

The vans target your front number plate and can get you on either side of the road. It's a laser-based device and takes a reading from the reflected signal. The operator has to accuratelt 'aim' the cross-hairs on his scope at your number plate and the photo with the speed on is then automatic when he pulls the trigger. The range is considerable too.

[hedders]

And its purely a coincidence that they chose to target a safe overtaking spot (I assume)and not a road by a school or something to protect all the kiddies on their first day back at school..

*spits in disgust*

[chim666]

Cooperman said:

The vans target your front number plate

Not just your front plate, they target your rear one too - I know ...in my case, the van was not visible from my direction of travel as it was well back off the road behind a hedge

And they say that they don't want to catch you.

[r5gttgaz]

It was on a nice stretch of road, i came out the bend and had around 1.5 mile of straight as hell road to get past so i did lol i hope i dont get punished grrrrr ive traveled the same road for years and afaik never any major problems or accidents no houses or anything just fields either side oh and a nice wide verge to park ya van on

[eccles]

my mate had a similar situation when he sold his old VW van, guy left a £3k deposit, he then kept delaying when he was going to pick the van up, and after phoning the guy and finding he was away on holiday, he sent a "carefully worded" letter, and the money was forthcoming with suprising speed!

[eccles]

my mate had a similar situation when he sold his old VW van, guy left a £3k deposit, he then kept delaying when he was going to pick the van up, and after phoning the guy and finding he was away on holiday, he sent a "carefully worded" letter, and the money was forthcoming with suprising speed!

[ledfoot]

eccles said:

my mate had a similar situation when he sold his old VW van, guy left a £3k deposit, he then kept delaying when he was going to pick the van up, and after phoning the guy and finding he was away on holiday, he sent a "carefully worded" letter, and the money was forthcoming with suprising speed!

I think you have replied to wrong post.