New Speed Camera Vans?

[Hackney]

My wife sent me this image. Are completely unmarked camera vans allowed now?

Edited by Hackney on Thursday 15th December 15:09

[Type R Tom]

Sure that isn't an old camera van resold to the public and painted, can't see any camera and its a 65 plate.

[SS2.]

They've done worse.

[CraigyMc]

Type R Tom said:

Sure that isn't an old camera van resold to the public and painted, can't see any camera and its a 65 plate.

It's legit.

--> https://www.northants.police.uk/news/northants/new...

[Type R Tom]

CraigyMc said:

Type R Tom said:

Sure that isn't an old camera van resold to the public and painted, can't see any camera and its a 65 plate.

It's legit.

--> https://www.northants.police.uk/news/northants/new...

Wow, that due surprise me.

[CraigyMc]

Type R Tom said:

CraigyMc said:

Type R Tom said:

Sure that isn't an old camera van resold to the public and painted, can't see any camera and its a 65 plate.

It's legit.

--> https://www.northants.police.uk/news/northants/new...

Wow, that due surprise me.

Surprised me too.

It's the dropping of the pretense that the camera is there to make you slow down that's surprising to me.

[Riley Blue]

Keep up at the back! https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[scorcher]

That’s really going to make the roads safer…. Not!

[Hackney]

CraigyMc said:

Type R Tom said:

Sure that isn't an old camera van resold to the public and painted, can't see any camera and its a 65 plate.

It's legit.

--> https://www.northants.police.uk/news/northants/new...

Just read that article and the (lack of) logic in justification for this is astounding.

[Durzel]

CraigyMc said:

Type R Tom said:

CraigyMc said:

Type R Tom said:

Sure that isn't an old camera van resold to the public and painted, can't see any camera and its a 65 plate.

It's legit.

--> https://www.northants.police.uk/news/northants/new...

Wow, that due surprise me.

Surprised me too.

It's the dropping of the pretense that the camera is there to make you slow down that's surprising to me.

Devil's Advocate..

How effective is it in making people slow down, when all they're doing is slowing down before or at the point they see the van?

[CraigyMc]

Durzel said:

CraigyMc said:

Type R Tom said:

CraigyMc said:

Type R Tom said:

Sure that isn't an old camera van resold to the public and painted, can't see any camera and its a 65 plate.

It's legit.

--> https://www.northants.police.uk/news/northants/new...

Wow, that due surprise me.

Surprised me too.

It's the dropping of the pretense that the camera is there to make you slow down that's surprising to me.

Devil's Advocate..

How effective is it in making people slow down, when all they're doing is slowing down before or at the point they see the van?

As compared with not slowing down for the fully unmarked van at all, do you mean?

[markymarkthree]

With no signage on it, what's to stop anyone pulling up right behind it?

[CraigyMc]

markymarkthree said:

With no signage on it, what's to stop anyone pulling up right behind it?

The same nothing that would stop someone from pulling up behind it if was fully marked up.

[NMNeil]

Durzel said:

Devil's Advocate..

How effective is it in making people slow down, when all they're doing is slowing down before or at the point they see the van?

If you get a speeding ticket from one of these vans you may wonder if there are other similar unmarked vans, and so you may grudgingly comply with the speed limits.
So yes, it could be effective

[markymarkthree]

CraigyMc said:

markymarkthree said:

With no signage on it, what's to stop anyone pulling up right behind it?

The same nothing that would stop someone from pulling up behind it if was fully marked up.

Except i believe its an offence to block the view of a speed camera van.

[gt_12345]

I'm sure there's more danger people hitting brakes, than the actual speeding drivers.

(Although some people do speed badly!)

[spookly]

markymarkthree said:

CraigyMc said:

markymarkthree said:

With no signage on it, what's to stop anyone pulling up right behind it?

The same nothing that would stop someone from pulling up behind it if was fully marked up.

Except i believe its an offence to block the view of a speed camera van.

In which of our many laws is that described?

I've blocked a camera van in one of it's local haunts lots of time, and even refused to move when asked. I was simply parking in a legal parking space to take my dogs in the adjacent park. His problem that he's parked someone where someone can legally park a van behind him.

[Super Sonic]

Proof their real purpose is to make money.

[Geffg]

Just more sneaky ways to make money from the motorist.
Liverpool council have just announced they’re gonna start using cameras at certain junctions in the city centre in the name of safety and a cleaner city. So me making a mistake on the road and paying £100 or whatever the fine is, is going to make the city safer and cleaner.
Always annoying that these fines are so disproportionate to the actual “crime”. Yet I could go and shoplift something and get told off.

[scorcher]

Super Sonic said:

Proof their real purpose is to make money.

Always been the case. That’s why Avon and Somerset turned off their cameras in 2011 because it was costing them money to run them.