Long range speed cams in vans...

[Breeze]

These new(ish) long-range cams now in the back of vans: I was told by a mate were only ANPR (number plate recognition) cams that checked the PNC (police national computer) for out of date insurance, tax etc... found out the other day that they are speed cams, too. 65 in a 50 limit they got me for. Ah well, at least I had a clean licence for a few months since my last speeding points dropped off!

 

[dk]

The van cameras can get you up to 1 mile away, quite impressive piece of equipment

 

[Alex_225]

Impressive equipment but also another fancy piggy bank for the government!!

 

[dannyboy]

yeah is it really necessary, all this when serious crime rates are rising! (im off to commit agrevated burglery of several old people. as long as i drove at the speed limits on the way home, i shoudl be fine!)

 

[Bryan]

the anpr vans do not double as speed camera vans

unfortunately for you, you must have been caught by a speed camera can, not a anpr van, (they can also use CCTV cameras from town centres for the ANPR)

 

[Gus]

Im always scanning the horizon for oddly parked up vans especially if they have blacked out windows.

What would be funny is if you had a shop that could make number plates quickly, you copy the scamera vans number plate , stick it on your car then fly past the scamera van at a supersonic speed. Hopefully it would cause mass confusion or get the scamera van a ticket.

 

[unofficialPete]

Quote: Originally posted by optical on 19 July 2005
Im always scanning the horizon for oddly parked up vans especially if they have blacked out windows.



Ah but they never park where you can see them, ones Ive seen are usual usualy over the brow of a hill around the corner a little..

 

[bsimmer3000]

i see a sneaky van sitting on top of a bridge over the A12 in essex he was almost behind a bush but when i got closer ya could see the cam pointing down the road @ us not sure if it was getting the traffic going away from it or coming towards it but you could hardly see it.

 

[entjm]

grr these things can lock on and get a speed reading from 1Km away... however they cant read the licence plate from there.... so what do the sneaky buggers do....

...use a video camera and follow you untill they can make out the number plate... so you can be speeding 1km away from the camera van, but drive past it totally legally but they have still got you!

i went past one but i was tryign to work out how far back up the road i would have been over the speed limit... i came roudn the bend and was probably speeding, saw the van then slowed down but if it was waiting for people to pop round the bend then zap you im stuffed.

its no deterrant when the vans are hidden... this was certainly not highlighting a blackspot!


[Edited by entjm on 19 July 2005 at 9:08pm]

 

[Deeg]

That is the problem, they arent a deterrent.

The ones in Sheffield are b******s for hiding, blind bends (usually parked on the pavement), brows of hills, behind road signs with the cam fixed at the side of the road etc.

Also, the biggest bit of hypocrisy the other day, saw a Scamera Van Speeding on the motorway, not only speeding on the mtorway, but when we went into the 50MPH road work area, continued to speed.

No doubt was late for setting up the speed trap on that bit of the motorway.

Arse Hole!

 

[Ally]

I got done by one of these camera vans - dual carriageway, quiet Sunday morning traffic, dry and sunny, 80mph in a national limit (70mph). Oh and Im not bitter! (done the crime though so cant complain too much - but f*cks sake, 70s an unrealistic limit nowadays on roads like that).

I remember reading they can catch you from up to 2km away on a clear day, and only need a complete line of sight of your car of less than 1 second to make a reading. Lazer devices. If your detector picks up one of these and youre over the limit, youre stuffed.

 

[Don]

Quote: Originally posted by optical on 19 July 2005


Im always scanning the horizon for oddly parked up vans especially if they have blacked out windows.

What would be funny is if you had a shop that could make number plates quickly, you copy the scamera vans number plate , stick it on your car then fly past the scamera van at a supersonic speed. Hopefully it would cause mass confusion or get the scamera van a ticket.





In Australia, there was a speed camera van sitting on the side of the road clocking speeders. Someone removed the front license plate, put it on their car and kept getting caught by the camera cop using the camera vans license...imagine the Aussie polices face when they saw that their number plate was flashed several times!

 

[rich[182]]

Quote: Originally posted by optical on 19 July 2005


Im always scanning the horizon for oddly parked up vans especially if they have blacked out windows.

What would be funny is if you had a shop that could make number plates quickly, you copy the scamera vans number plate , stick it on your car then fly past the scamera van at a supersonic speed. Hopefully it would cause mass confusion or get the scamera van a ticket.





^ some chavs did this 2 years ago, mad buggers did some mock plates and drove past them in a 40 doing 85 whilst flashing their lights and pipping horn