Hand held speed guns

Bigpig · 28 Sep 2015 at 19:38

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Right think I was caught speeding. Around 40mph in a 30mph zone which leads onto a 40mph zone wasn't really paying attention to my speedo.

It was a police man with a hand held speed gun. He was holding it like a rifle.

He dint try and wave me down and there was a police car across the road with more officers not sure if they where booking someone else. I looked at him more than he did me as I was expecting to get flagged down but din't.

Will I get something though the post? Do they need evidence to convict since I was not stopped?

Kaeo · 28 Sep 2015 at 19:40

Wait for the nip

Bigpig · 28 Sep 2015 at 20:16

Kaeo said:
Wait for the nip

they have 14 days or something to post it right?

Just found it strange that he was still pointing it down the road behind me while I was staring at him going past. must have looked a right muppet lol

Ahh well wait for the postman and my punishment begins

Blackhawk47 · 28 Sep 2015 at 20:27

Might have just been a survey?

I've seen/done similar to you before and I think they were surveying speed of road users in an area where they are thinking of changing the speed limit.

Sirrel Squirrel · 28 Sep 2015 at 20:30

My wife got a NIP through after speeding past a policeman with a gun. No idea whether the gun took a picture too?

geekman · 28 Sep 2015 at 20:34

Chances are you'll be fine. Although they occasionally do follow up these things, they'll normally stop you at the time if it's just a police officer with a gun.

Bigpig · 28 Sep 2015 at 20:47

Blackhawk47 said:
Might have just been a survey?

I've seen/done similar to you before and I think they were surveying speed of road users in an area where they are thinking of changing the speed limit.

Think it was a proper speed trap

Sirrel Squirrel said:
My wife got a NIP through after speeding past a policeman with a gun. No idea whether the gun took a picture too?

don't think so. The gun had two big lenses over and under.

I don't even think I slowed down much when I noticed them as I was expecting to get pulled over....

Ahh well lesion learned.

Just hate waiting on something that might and might not come!!

Orionaut · 28 Sep 2015 at 22:55

As an aside,

Would it be possible for a dishonest Policeman (Even supposing that such a thing might exist

) to manipulate hand held speed camera evidence by walking towards the traffic while taking a reading??

Kaeo · 29 Sep 2015 at 08:02

I doubt it. Also, yes. 14 days

GSXR Gaz Mc · 29 Sep 2015 at 08:24

have u got any points already?, ever been caught before....if not dont worry bout it

mattcrane · 29 Sep 2015 at 13:06

Orionaut said:
As an aside,

Would it be possible for a dishonest Policeman (Even supposing that such a thing might exist ) to manipulate hand held speed camera evidence by walking towards the traffic while taking a reading??

Having tried this at work one day when we were bored it made no difference to the reading.

Liquidfox · 29 Sep 2015 at 13:07

Sirrel Squirrel said:
No idea whether the gun took a picture too?

Doesn't have to, officer statement is enough.

Sirrel Squirrel · 29 Sep 2015 at 13:37

Liquidfox said:
Doesn't have to, officer statement is enough.

I always thought they had to pull you over there and then in that case?

Burnsy2023 · 29 Sep 2015 at 14:28

Sirrel Squirrel said:
I always thought they had to pull you over there and then in that case?

Nope, they usually do for simplicity as then you can say that you've issued a verbal NIP and therefore have 6 months for a disposal. If they don't do it at the roadside, they have 14 days to issue it via the mail.

Bigpig · 29 Sep 2015 at 16:18

GSXR Gaz Mc said:
have u got any points already?, ever been caught before....if not dont worry bout it

nope first points since i passed like 15 years ago.

From what I read there's a good chance I have got away with it as they prefer to pull you over with the handguns and are mostly after excessive speeders or just to show people why are out and about checking speed.
There was ample time and was safe to flag me down.

If I have got caught hopefully I get offered a course instead of points.

Gaygle · 29 Sep 2015 at 18:35

99.99% sure nothing will come of this whatsoever. Normally the speed gun comes out for one of three reasons:

- Residents complain and are convinced that cars are doing 150mph along their street. Keeps them happy if they have someone flying the flag every now and then.

- Boredom, nothing else going on so a quick 15 minutes with the speed gun is always a good excuse for pulling dodgy looking cars over.

- Looking for serious speeders, not your 35-40mphers.

As said above, 99.999% of the time a police officer will signal for you to stop if he has a laser gun. If you haven't been pulled over, I genuinely wouldn't worry about it.