Speed camera question for anyone in tunbridge wells.
 

I need some assistance with a speed camera question peeps.
There is a fix camera on the pembry road going into tunbridge wells. My question being this, I understand that this camera has a habbit of taking shots of oncoming traffic aswell as the rear of traffic passing it.
Can a photo of an oncoming car taken by a rear facing cam still be used against a driver.
Also if another car was passing the cam at the same time, how are the two cars viewed, if you get my drift.

cheers
R

pass it at the regulated speed and ....hey presto, no picture! ;=)

yes, passing it within the set limit, no pic.
But if it flashes at you on your approach and one is not speeding whats the format for that.
Surely fixed cameras set for rear images and speeding, but take pics of oncoming traffic before they get to the cam are incorrect.
can you clarify.

cheers

Aarh, but what if the oncoming car is going faster ( ie faster than the recomended speed for that stretch of road) & the other one is abiding the recomended speed for that stretch of the road????, then what happens if both are on the same picture???


Chris:burn:

exactly, if I was in a pic of two cars both taken by the same camera at the same time going in differnt directions,and I was'nt speeding ,whats the format.
how can one be proved to be speeding over the other.

check this:

http://www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk/rept2005.pdf

got me off a 3 pointer ! for 35 in a 30, non pedestrianised industrial area at 5am ! handheld STI 2020 with cam attachment

tho' would be surprised if cam on opposite side of road can get you coming head on

What about that speed gun test reported by Bike magazine a while back? It clocked a stationary brick wall at 58 mph! :lol:

Sorry, off topic, I'll get me coat.

thought they used the white marks on the road as a second check on speed etc. I thought they took 2 pic's and measured the change in vehicle position using the lines. That way then can also calculate your speed, knowing the distance covered in a set time between the 2 pic's being taken.

Yep that's what i thought. Those white lines are so handy. ;)

I think Carbon749 is right.

As far as the one on the Pembury Road is concerned, I think the white lines are marked on both sides of the road so I've always worked on the basis that you could be 'got' in either direction. The camera certainly flashes if someone is speeding towards it and there are no other vehicles around.

I have heard stories of local bikers travelling towards it setting it off deliberately to use up the film.... how naughty!

Seem to be so many different types but we should all rejoice at the added safety they afford us :-)))

We have a great system operating here now that can check all kinds of info about the car just by looking at the number plate, saw it in action yesterday on the way back from the seaside. It can tell who owns the car, if it is taxed, if the driver is insured etc. (Andyb can probably confirm) so I guess we will see a reduction in other illegal motoring activities.

Bet they aren't allowed to set it up within 50 miles of a "travellers" site though ;-))))

speed cameras
 

My mate worked in a police station (not one of the boys though).
He said that the standard yellow machines only get you from behind that is why they swivel around, the blue ones can get you front on.
It happened to me before I was going forwards towards a yellow camera in a car above the speed limit and it flashed at me, nothing arrived in the post.
He reckons it could simply be something small flew/blew in front of the lense and this set it off.
I was also told you sometimes see cameras double flash, this is them recalibrating themselves (a magistrate this time).

If you ever get an NIP for a GATSO using the lines on the road get the pictures so that you can calculate your speed yourself to check up on the calculations from the speed tax office if you think you have doubt over the speed.

There will be two pictures, hence two flashes. The time period between the two flashes is set/known. The distance travelled is known. Time period is known hence the speed can be calculated.

Ray

Film......er digital...............keeps going and going!:devil: