M3 - speed camera 90mph

[Melman Giraffe]

Morning All

Last night around 11pm traveling from the M25 upto J3 on the M3, got flashed by a gantry camera at around 90mph. Any idea if the camera is active and if so what is the likely outcome?

Feeling a bit foolish this morning and now worried i might face a ban

Thanks

[davek_964]

Your post says from M25 to M3 J3 - so it will depend on where you were flashed. If you were in the 70mph part, then I guess 3 points - but if you were still in the 50mph part.......

[Melman Giraffe]

it was in the 70 part past the variable section on the M3 approaching J3 Windlesham

[jdizz]

Bend over and wait.

[Smiljan]

There's one just after the 50mph zone ends was it that one? How accurate is your speedo?

Those cameras do work so probably 3 points and a fine or maybe a speed awareness course offered depending how accurate your speedo was - 90 is too high, 86 and below you might get a course.

That section does suffer from a lot of accidents hence why it's infested with cameras now.

Edited by Smiljan on Thursday 10th December 10:26

[agtlaw]

If eligible then course at 79-86 mph.

Fixed penalty more likely than a fine at 79-95 mph. £100. 3 points.

Court proceedings at 96 mph and above.

[Melman Giraffe]

its not the one just after the variable section its the one a mile or so from the junction. As it flashed i looked down and saw 90 on the digital dash (Merc E250 2013) anyway i will wait and see the outcome

[Vickers_VC10]

Melman Giraffe said:

its not the one just after the variable section its the one a mile or so from the junction. As it flashed i looked down and saw 90 on the digital dash (Merc E250 2013) anyway i will wait and see the outcome

Are you new to the area?

They are active 24/7 I see this time and time again. They are full time speed cameras. They are not WFH speed cameras or they have not be furloughed. Assuming you have the normal dash tolerances you should be ok for the options agt has stated

I see people barrelling past them regularly and get flashed. There was a thread on here a few months ago on how someone's wife went past the ones between 3-4 (they are locals and didn't know lol)

[Melman Giraffe]

Vickers_VC10 said:

Melman Giraffe said:

its not the one just after the variable section its the one a mile or so from the junction. As it flashed i looked down and saw 90 on the digital dash (Merc E250 2013) anyway i will wait and see the outcome

Are you new to the area?

They are active 24/7 I see this time and time again. They are full time speed cameras. They are not WFH speed cameras or they have not be furloughed. Assuming you have the normal dash tolerances you should be ok for the options agt has stated

I see people barrelling past them regularly and get flashed. There was a thread on here a few months ago on how someone's wife went past the ones between 3-4 (they are locals and didn't know lol)

Not new to the area just dont travel along the M3 that often, i was only traveling that way last night after watching Brenford play, usually i stick to the M4 and cut through Windsor but last night decided to go a different way.

[Vickers_VC10]

Melman Giraffe said:

Vickers_VC10 said:

Melman Giraffe said:

its not the one just after the variable section its the one a mile or so from the junction. As it flashed i looked down and saw 90 on the digital dash (Merc E250 2013) anyway i will wait and see the outcome

Are you new to the area?

They are active 24/7 I see this time and time again. They are full time speed cameras. They are not WFH speed cameras or they have not be furloughed. Assuming you have the normal dash tolerances you should be ok for the options agt has stated

I see people barrelling past them regularly and get flashed. There was a thread on here a few months ago on how someone's wife went past the ones between 3-4 (they are locals and didn't know lol)

Not new to the area just dont travel along the M3 that often, i was only traveling that way last night after watching Brenford play, usually i stick to the M4 and cut through Windsor but last night decided to go a different way.

Ah ok. We'll you'll have this to look forward to in a few years pretty much Heston to Reading on the M4. :/

[TheDrownedApe]

Melman Giraffe said:

Not new to the area just dont travel along the M3 that often, i was only traveling that way last night after watching Brenford play, usually i stick to the M4 and cut through Windsor but last night decided to go a different way.

Alas all the ones on the M3 are set somehwere above 80 mph (going on what people have posted in here before) when no gantry speeds are shown. I use the M3 from the M25 to Junc 4A twice a week and go past them at 80 without issue.

[BertBert]

I've given up trying to second guess them and just keep to a steady satnav 76, 78 on cruise control. Doing loads of motorway miles on the same routes before lockdown, have definitely seen different thresholds for flashing on the same cameras. Fortunately others, not me.

[Mr Tidy]

I was using the M3 between J2 and J4 every week for years and always made a point of setting cruise to 55mph when joining from the M25 because of those average cameras.

After that I would do whatever speed on the M3 I fancied until I got to the cameras and always made a point to go through those at less than an indicated 80 - it has worked so far!

But during the 4 years or so the M3 was being turned into a "Dumb" Motorway I tended to use the A331, A31 and A3 instead because traffic flowed better and there were fewer cameras.

[DBSV8]

they are fairly easy to spot , bright orange boxes on the side of the gantries , just keep below 79 mph going through them

[Melman Giraffe]

DBSV8 said:

they are fairly easy to spot , bright orange boxes on the side of the gantries , just keep below 79 mph going through them

Not so easy to spot in the dark on an unlit motorway doing 90

[Pica-Pica]

Melman Giraffe said:

DBSV8 said:

they are fairly easy to spot , bright orange boxes on the side of the gantries , just keep below 79 mph going through them

Not so easy to spot in the dark on an unlit motorway doing 90

But I think the camera sign is clear enough, and probably semi-reflective. Do you need more?

[Harry H]

Pica-Pica said:

But I think the camera sign is clear enough, and probably semi-reflective. Do you need more?

But the signs are everywhere so irrelevant. There's loads of roads in Surrey with miles of the camera signs and not a camera for miles.

France is better. If you see the sign you can pretty well bet there's a camera just up the road. But that probably has the effect of slowing people down rather than getting people to ignore them so they can be fined.

[bigandclever]

Melman Giraffe said:

DBSV8 said:

they are fairly easy to spot , bright orange boxes on the side of the gantries , just keep below 79 mph going through them

Not so easy to spot in the dark on an unlit motorway doing 90

Waze told me about all of them on last weekend’s journey. Pretty handy to have.

[Pica-Pica]

Harry H said:

Pica-Pica said:

But I think the camera sign is clear enough, and probably semi-reflective. Do you need more?

But the signs are everywhere so irrelevant. There's loads of roads in Surrey with miles of the camera signs and not a camera for miles.

France is better. If you see the sign you can pretty well bet there's a camera just up the road. But that probably has the effect of slowing people down rather than getting people to ignore them so they can be fined.

It is not irrelevant. Those signs you see on A roads will occasionally have a camera van. The purpose is that MAY be a camera (van) not that there WILL be one.

OP originally said there was no publicity - there clearly is.

[Harry H]

Pica-Pica said:

Harry H said:

Pica-Pica said:

But I think the camera sign is clear enough, and probably semi-reflective. Do you need more?

But the signs are everywhere so irrelevant. There's loads of roads in Surrey with miles of the camera signs and not a camera for miles.

France is better. If you see the sign you can pretty well bet there's a camera just up the road. But that probably has the effect of slowing people down rather than getting people to ignore them so they can be fined.

It is not irrelevant. Those signs you see on A roads will occasionally have a camera van. The purpose is that MAY be a camera (van) not that there WILL be one.

OP originally said there was no publicity - there clearly is.

Yep, you're right. And in your own mind perfect.