Speed Camera Question

[wn3]

Pretty sure this is a no-brainer, but, a road near to work has recently been resurfaced by the local council.

At the bottom of about 1.5 mile of dual carriageway, is a gatso in a 40mph zone. However, the council (or whoever is responsible) hasn't painted the lines on the road in front of the camera.

Am I right in thinking that i can't be "got" by this camera at the moment?

This is, of course, hypothetical, as I would never exceed the speed limit.

Cheers

adam

[Parrot of Doom]

The cynical part of me would imagine them just using an old picture avec lines, and mixing the two images in a photoshop-style application.

I wouldn't chance it. Also bear in mind that freshly resurfaced roads do have a much less grippy surface and can be hazardous - google SMA for more details.

[wn3]

Thanks for your reply, p-o-d.

The town I work in (Skelmersdale), has god-awful road surfaces. I don't rightly know what the surface is, but the slightest hint of rain, and it's like a skid pan.

The new surface is like a gravelly surface on the newly laid tar, giving a fairly "grippy" surface.

Incidently, the camera is also conveniently located JUST as you come out of a 50 into a 40.

[vonhosen]

wn3 said:

Incidently, the camera is also conveniently located JUST as you come out of a 50 into a 40.

That'll be because you are supposed to be doing no more than 40 by the time you get to the 40 signs & it's trying to enforce that limit & stop people still doing 50+ in the 40.

If it was set to prosecute you for doing 40 in a 50 then that would be somethng to complain about.

[supermono]

The lines are required to verify claimed speed so you can happily ignore that camera and your speedometer and instead use your concentration on trivia like setting a safe speed for the conditions and checking for hazards.

SM

[CommanderJameson]

supermono said:

The lines are required to verify claimed speed so you can happily ignore that camera and your speedometer and instead use your concentration on trivia like setting a safe speed for the conditions and checking for hazards.

SM

I wouldn't bet 3 points and 60 quid on that, to be honest.

[supermono]

I'm not suggesting he speeds through it, just that he doesn't need to waste valuable concentration making sure he's doing 40mph.

Anyhow it's not a gamble. There can be no conviction from a Gatso which takes two pictures of a moving car without graduations to show how far it travelled between them.

SM

[CommanderJameson]

supermono said:

I'm not suggesting he speeds through it, just that he doesn't need to waste valuable concentration making sure he's doing 40mph.

Anyhow it's not a gamble. There can be no conviction from a Gatso which takes two pictures of a moving car without graduations to show how far it travelled between them.

SM

That's what I'm on about; there's a GATSO here in Cleveland that has no graduations and does nick people (the one in Thornaby).

[supermono]

Does it actually nick people or does it just flash at them? I don't see how even those greedy little partnership parasites could attempt to press a case with no evidence to support the claimed speed.

SM

[wn3]

supermono said:

There can be no conviction from a Gatso which takes two pictures of a moving car without graduations to show how far it travelled between them.

SM

Exactly what I thought. How could it possibly use two photographs to accurately gauge speed, when it has nothing to measure it against?