Speed Camera Question

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Happily for me it's not me this time *stares at 3 points with one year left on License :(*

But was in the van as a passenger with my colleague driving, he was exceeding the speed limit by approximately 13mph on a National Speed limit Motorway and we drove under a bridge at which point he noticed there was a camera on a tripod sitting above the middle lane on the bridge. This was hooked up to a van sitting right at the edge of the bridge.

Further down the road there was an Subaru police car which was sitting by the side of the road, nearly gave him a heart attack by starting to move as we drove by but then pulled someone further ahead of us.

So i'm assuming it was working in tandem with the van and camera, however if it was a check and pull over trap is my colleague in the clear or will he have to bite it and take his first ever points and wait for the nice letter to show up.

And before the "blah blah he sped he deserves what he gets crew turn up", he accepts he was speeding and is prepared to take the points if it does come through. Just curious really as the only other cameras I've seen on Tripods have been hooked up to DVLA vehicles.

We also saw a really sneaky speed camera in Croydon, unmarked white van. Quite non-distinct but had 2 blacked-out small windows at the top in the rear. Both of these were open and had cameras in them. Thought that was pretty sneaky, in Scotland speed vans and traps have to be fully marked up in full police chevrons etc.
 
Maybe your mate got lucky and the ANPR which I assume it was flagged the car ahead of you with a little bit more of a juicy fine (no ins/tax/mot?) and you got away with it!
In that kind of scenario I wonder if they flag you as well and send you the bad news via mail or just move on to the next big fishy?
 
The van with two blacked out windows is also ANPR. Any van with police vehicles nearby is always such - they want to catch the perps, not send them a ticket.


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