Speed cameras

insane200 said:
It could just be a villager doing speed checks, it happens quite often here in rural areas, if it is you'll generally just receive a letter telling you off.
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How do they get permission to get your details from DVLA. I guess they must have a deal with the local plod? Can stand the local village pensioners who do this sort of thing!
 
shadow_boxer said:
How do they get permission to get your details from DVLA. I guess they must have a deal with the local plod? Can stand the local village pensioners who do this sort of thing!
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I don't know, but a village i pass through on the way to work quite often has 3 people stood taking speeds and writing number plates down, I guess they pass it on, and as it's not done by an official it's just a warning.
 
shadow_boxer said:
How do they get permission to get your details from DVLA. I guess they must have a deal with the local plod? Can stand the local village pensioners who do this sort of thing!
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It’s called Community speed watch, they use handheld speed guns and note down number plates to send to the police who send a letter out to speeders.
 
Not sure if its the same with a manned camera but I had a ticket overturned a few years back because I was caught by a static camera installed where there was no street lighting.

It wasn't me that contested it, but they had to pay back all of the fines and remove the camera.
 
Go really early one morning and re-position it looking right through their living room window.

Then the next morning on their neighbors doorstep, etc :D
 
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CaptainRAVE said:
So I commuted in the daylight today. It was a full size cardboard cutout :D

I might just blow my horn every time I go by.
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:D:D

I stopped at a zebra crossing last week for a mother and her two kids who were crossing the road. They didn't move, so I looked a bit closer and realized they were also a cardboard cutout. Taxi driver coming the other way found it rather amusing.
 
geekman said:
:D:D

I stopped at a zebra crossing last week for a mother and her two kids who were crossing the road. They didn't move, so I looked a bit closer and realized they were also a cardboard cutout. Taxi driver coming the other way found it rather amusing.
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Someone probably did that to try and make it "safer", but are actually doing the opposite (someone who knows it's there might not stop one day when a real mum a kid are about to step out).
 
Nasher said:
Someone probably did that to try and make it "safer", but are actually doing the opposite (someone who knows it's there might not stop one day when a real mum a kid are about to step out).
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Yeah, I thought that too. It was on an airport access road, so I suspect it was something put up by the airport company and not an official highways agency type thing.
 
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