Slip Road Scam
Discussion
Saturday night I was on my way to the midnight tunnel run making steady progress down the M11. I cruse up behind 3 or 4 cars with a trafpol Volvo at the head of the queue and keep a steady 70mph. When I was along side the volvo they pulled on to the slip road off the motorway.
Now I am not usually paranoid but I am on 6 points, my car is loud & slightly conspicuous. I hit the cruse control and kept a beady eye on the rear view mirror.
Sure enough going past the exit slip road, 2 white lights appear and rejoin the carriageway. The lights then overtake some slower cars and come to rest a reasonable distance behind me.
5 miles later they are still there.
10 miles later they are still there.
The lights obviously get bored and decide to over take. Low and behold it is said trafpol!
Monaro 1, Trafpol 0 (Speed Cameras 2).
Moral of the story, watch out for the slip road scam!
Yours, Mr Smug
Now I am not usually paranoid but I am on 6 points, my car is loud & slightly conspicuous. I hit the cruse control and kept a beady eye on the rear view mirror.
Sure enough going past the exit slip road, 2 white lights appear and rejoin the carriageway. The lights then overtake some slower cars and come to rest a reasonable distance behind me.
5 miles later they are still there.
10 miles later they are still there.
The lights obviously get bored and decide to over take. Low and behold it is said trafpol!
Monaro 1, Trafpol 0 (Speed Cameras 2).
Moral of the story, watch out for the slip road scam!
Yours, Mr Smug
Especially if they look like they are gaining on me sultanbrown said:
anonymous said:
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The trick is, once they've pulled off up the slip, absolutely nail it to the next junction, where you can then pull off yourself and get behind them as they shoot past and, at a suitable distance, enjoy making good progress.
7db said:
R_U_LOCAL said:
7db said:
Clearly the only option is to follow them up the slip...
How can you follow them if they're behind you?
V8 EOL - Rich said:
I cruse up behind 3 or 4 cars with a trafpol Volvo at the head of the queue
V8 EOL - Rich said:
When I was along side the volvo they pulled on to the slip road off the motorway.
Might have looked dodgy if I followed them over the chevrons!Dwight VanDriver said:
Can be done at a roundabout - go right round and drop in behind.
Old as the hills
Don't you do that to avoid the queue? Old as the hills
anonymous said:
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It was midnight for me so they zoomed over the junction... but yes, I did consider seeing if they would catch me up but decided caution was the better part of valour (or some other mixed metaphor).Hi 
Seen this done but I imagine it would depend on the car they were "following"
As an example..if it were say a Ferrari or maybe my car....and I nailed it as someone put it...
I would be several miles ahead of them and doing over 180 and still accelerating.......there is no Police car in the UK that could catch me from that distance...assuming a clear motorway etc...a few helicopters though lol
Not that I would be stupid enough to do that, especially at night but my point is....I would assume this trick is not used on high speed cars as the Police would lose a lot of them no ??
All the best Brett
Seen this done but I imagine it would depend on the car they were "following"
As an example..if it were say a Ferrari or maybe my car....and I nailed it as someone put it...
I would be several miles ahead of them and doing over 180 and still accelerating.......there is no Police car in the UK that could catch me from that distance...assuming a clear motorway etc...a few helicopters though lol
Not that I would be stupid enough to do that, especially at night but my point is....I would assume this trick is not used on high speed cars as the Police would lose a lot of them no ??
All the best Brett
I've not seen this done, although I am aware of how traffic behaviour changes the minute a police car joins a slip road to leave the motorway. Some people don't even wait till the cars out of sight before stepping harder onto the loud pedal. So I guess these are the guys the BiBs are looking for. 
saw this done last week., trafpol being followed by a bunch of smart bmw's, he drives off the slip, they floor it and vanish, he comes up the other side of the roundabout, puts on the blues and 5 miles down the road is a queue of traffic with some bmw's on the hard shoulder being ticketed. Road always gets a q at that time in the morning and they could not escape
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