Do I have to be stopped to receive a ticket?

[Nullusia]

I never speed usually, but just wondering IF doing 96 on the motorway at night with not much traffic unfortunately due to a family emergency, is there any chance of me getting caught if there were no camera signs at all? Say by an officer noting down the speed and dealing with it later?

Too dark to see or recall any marked or unmarked cars, but I am known for being hecking paranoid but I like to be aware of all avenues.

Edited by Nullusia on Thursday 28th December 01:27

[Nullusia]

Nigel_O said:

So - you’re paranoid, but chose to drive at 96mph?

No, you don’t have to be stopped to receive a ticket - how do you think speed cameras work?

I would get paranoid of things after it is done, not at the actual time of it happening - perhaps naivety. And I kind of meant aside from cameras, I think I made an extra typo in my post by saying camera signs instead of cameras which is what I meant.

Edited by Nullusia on Thursday 28th December 01:29

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Monkeylegend said:

It's the cameras that get you not the signs. Did you pass any cameras or did you not notice?

No my scenario involves none at all. I'm aware of most types of cameras, but I always thought areas with fixed cameras on the motorway had signage in and around the area. If nothing showed up on waze either and there were no visible cameras or any signage at all.. I would doubt so? Seeing another post below, I (now) see that signage isn't required for cameras. Are there stretches on the motorway with no camera signs that actually have speed cameras that you know of?

Edited by Nullusia on Thursday 28th December 01:28

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Gafferjim said:

There are already some "Smart / Managed motorway" areas with cameras that I believe will "get you" if you speed through any variable speed setting, and also for the breaking the national speed limit if there's nothing on the matrix.

As for speed cameras in the dark, I've seen a police patrol with a speed gun active at 11-30pm on the outskirts of our village.

Edited by Gafferjim on Wednesday 27th December 23:14

If it wasn't in an area where there were any gantry-type things with changeable lights to give designated speeds, just the normal bridge things over the top. Also if waze showed nothing by way of cameras for that same stretch (if that means anything, don't know the credibility of it for pointing out cameras). With that being confirmed, is it quite unlikely there'd be any sort of 'hidden' fixed cameras.

[Nullusia]

shovelheadrob said:

So said:

shovelheadrob said:

Followed by an admission of guilt on a public forum. ........
New year doesn't look too good for you!

If he has registered his vehicle using his PH username, someone in enforcement happens across this forum, puts the two together and can be bothered to do anything I think you're right.

There's more chance of aliens landing in his garden though.

It was a joke aimed at his self confessed paranoia.......

Well I used the word 'if' in my first post so I could be pre-assuming a scenario, just "if" that scenario did happen. It's not solid enough evidence in my first post to say the situation actually did happen. Along with paranoia I could just be a very imaginative guy?