Those three camera things on tripods.....

[fastfrank]

Hello,

I hope someone can advise. Whilst travelling home today on my local motorway this afternoon and coming round a bend I noticed a van perched on the bridge labelled as 'CCTV' and three tripods covering each lane. Now I was somewhat breaching the speed limit when I passed them :-(

Q. How do you know if these are there to catch speeders or tax evaders?

If the first I'll be due 6 points and a healthy fine then :-(

Comments appreciated.

[Nickyboy]

Almost certainly ANPR, they do it near me quite often

[J111]

Probably ANPR -

[fastfrank]

Just been speaking with my brother, he came home the same way about 1 hour later and the cameras were still in place. Said a Police car had pulled an R32 over futher up the motorway.

Presumably they would have done the same to me if I thought speeding?

What's ANPR?

[Marf]

Automatic Number Plate Recognition. Checks for things like tax, insurance, stop orders etc

[mrmr96]

I've got a funny story about those...

I was coming home from work in my Evo and felt the brakes weren't working quite right, so I wanted to give them a workout and clean the dust off.

I took the sliproad for my exit and checking there was nothing anywhere near in front or behind me I accelerated to a fair old speed as I moved onto the sliproad before braking HEAVILY to blow the cobwebs off the brakes.

It was only after I'd slowed down that I noticed the van and cameras. Van was parked on the corner of the roundabout (between the top of the sliproad and the bridge behind some bushes so not visible from main carriagewasy) They had one camera pointed at each of the three lanes of the main carriageway and one pointed down the sliproad towards me!

It would not have looked good to the guys in the van as no doubt it appeared to them that I'd hammered it, then braked on seeing the cameras. The genuine honest trust was that I was cleaning the brakes and I'd only seen the cameras after braking.

Now, the Evo can reach warp speed (read greater that 1.00 leptons) from a standstill in less than the lenght of a sliproad, and I was genuinely unsure of the speed I'd hit, esp given that I was already doing around 0.70 leptons when I started accelerating.

Luckily it turned out to be ANPR and I heard no more of it.

[fastfrank]

thanks for the repsonse.

I'll keep my fingers crossed.

[tangerine_sedge]

mrmr96 said:

I've got a funny story about those...

I was coming home from work in my Evo and felt the brakes weren't working quite right, so I wanted to give them a workout and clean the dust off.

I took the sliproad for my exit and checking there was nothing anywhere near in front or behind me I accelerated to a fair old speed as I moved onto the sliproad before braking HEAVILY to blow the cobwebs off the brakes.

It was only after I'd slowed down that I noticed the van and cameras. Van was parked on the corner of the roundabout (between the top of the sliproad and the bridge behind some bushes so not visible from main carriagewasy) They had one camera pointed at each of the three lanes of the main carriageway and one pointed down the sliproad towards me!

It would not have looked good to the guys in the van as no doubt it appeared to them that I'd hammered it, then braked on seeing the cameras. The genuine honest trust was that I was cleaning the brakes and I'd only seen the cameras after braking.

Now, the Evo can reach warp speed (read greater that 1.00 leptons) from a standstill in less than the lenght of a sliproad, and I was genuinely unsure of the speed I'd hit, esp given that I was already doing around 0.70 leptons when I started accelerating.

Luckily it turned out to be ANPR and I heard no more of it.

I was once doing 1.1 leptons or so on a nearly deserted motorway. As I approached a motorway junction I saw a white car on the bridge. I don't know why but spider-senses kicked in, and I braked heavily. By the time I had gone under the bridge I was doing 0.6 leptons. I was amused to find a police car hammering down the slip road obviously expecting to pull onto the motorway behind me, but obviously confused to get there before me

[fluffnik]

J111 said:

Probably ANPR -

It would be a tragedy if such an ill parked van was wiped out by a huuuuge truck.

...naaa, maybe not.

[supermono]

How would I walk past that safely?

SM

[evolution666]

seen these on the M6 near Heysham a few weeks ago, except there were 3, one seemed to be pointing at each lane


was a speed camera van that was parked just off the bridge, the usual red var with the yellow painted star thing on the side, i presumed some kind or speed detection device,

[TripleS]

tangerine_sedge said:

I was once doing 1.1 leptons or so on a nearly deserted motorway. As I approached a motorway junction I saw a white car on the bridge. I don't know why but spider-senses kicked in, and I braked heavily. By the time I had gone under the bridge I was doing 0.6 leptons. I was amused to find a police car hammering down the slip road obviously expecting to pull onto the motorway behind me, but obviously confused to get there before me

So you let him join in front of you, all nice and civilised like? That's good. It's always best to have the troublemakers in front of you.

Best wishes all,
Dave.