A "friend" has been flashed on the M1 doing over 100 in the middle of the night and no ticket arrived.
As I said before if there is a variable speed limit on do not speed, if not you are fine.
Speed cameras on the M1
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A "friend" has been flashed on the M1 doing over 100 in the middle of the night and no ticket arrived.
As I said before if there is a variable speed limit on do not speed, if not you are fine.
I did an M1 run the other night that saw Milton Keynes shake and Watford got a level 6 earthquake warning. Rumour has it there was a sonic boom over Northampton too.
Soldato
Not the case on the M25 anymore I'm afraid, a least not for the camera at clacket lane
http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=94627
There has also been many threads of people getting caught on other managed motorways when the VSL isn't illuminated. When I used to commute on the M25, particularly late at night, I used to go very very quickly through the gantrees and have never had a ticket. But they clearly have turned them on recently which is unsurprising when you consider the amount of money they had to invest putting them up in the first place.
Soldato
These are the ones on the M25.
Yeah these ones are always active. The ones overhead in the gantry are only active when the signs are lit up afaik.
The flashes I saw definitely came from directly over lane 4 (far right lane) so that is not the case at least on this stretch of motorway.
Caporegime
Anybody else been amusing themselves by putting silly speeds into the fine calculator in the link geekman posted? 
I did an M1 run the other night that saw Milton Keynes shake and Watford got a level 6 earthquake warning. Rumour has it there was a sonic boom over Northampton too.
I was following a panamera for some distance, to me it looked like he was trying to set a new land speed record... Those things are surprisingly quick.
Must be my wife, we had a massive fight not long about about how fast she drives
Wife thinks she is an F1 driver. Nice.
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My sister got done recently for doing 66 when the indicated speed was 50 on her way back to London on the M1 near Luton.
I just stick to the indicated limit or 70 when travelling through these Smart Motorways. I must look like an idiot in my GTI. There's another Managed section northbound just before the Toll Road on the M6 - again, I always stick to the limit just to be safe.
I just stick to the indicated limit or 70 when travelling through these Smart Motorways. I must look like an idiot in my GTI. There's another Managed section northbound just before the Toll Road on the M6 - again, I always stick to the limit just to be safe.
Was travelling on the m25 last night between junction 25 and the m11 pull off. I was going about 75 I think and a camera flashed behind me. There were cars travelling at similar speed to me and a few that were going a bit faster (80ish I reckon). Not sure whether the camera flashed me or someone else. I thought they only went off after 79/80ish...was one of these new ones on the side.
You were going clockwise?
I drove that section twice today. Going clockwise this morning I saw a camera flash on the anti-clockwise side but couldn't see any cars going unusually fast. On my way back evening it flashed as I was passing. Not 100% sure on the exact speed as I was accellerating from 75 to 80 and changing lane at the time. There was also a car in the far lane going slightly faster than me.
It's probably a defective camera as people were streaming past me over 80 without triggering cameras elsewhere.
I wouldn't like the irony of starting this thread on Friday to warn others then being caught by one on Sunday!
I was under the impression that they just turn a few different sets of the smart motorway cameras on each day that seem to flash when people are doing 85+. Luton seems to be quite a common area, they must do well there.
I did a year of commuting on the M25 and M1 and did occasionally see the flashes and kept an eye out for them, at the same time I did 80ish whenever possible and never had any tickets.
I did a year of commuting on the M25 and M1 and did occasionally see the flashes and kept an eye out for them, at the same time I did 80ish whenever possible and never had any tickets.
They dont have to have any tolerance, you can be done for 71mph the 10% guideline went out years ago..... I know as asked when I was younger I was done for 2.3mph over the limit and was told that 10% +2 went out years ago.
Soldato
Plenty of people have said things like this, but I've yet to see any proof for anyone prosecuted for doing 2.3MPH over the limit.
My 75 year old neighbor insisted he'd been flashed at 31MPH and sent on a speed awareness course but miraculously lost all the documents, despite it only happening about a week before we spoke.
There's actually a guy on Pistonheads who's offering £100 to anyone who can show him an NIP issued for a speed less than 10%+2, so if you've still got the documents lying around you might be able to make yourself a bit of cash
There's actually a guy on Pistonheads who's offering £100 to anyone who can show him an NIP issued for a speed less than 10%+2, so if you've still got the documents lying around you might be able to make yourself a bit of cash
He sounds a right prat, a few people must have taken him up on it now?
The yellow ticket doesnt show what speed you were doing tho does it, just a classification like TS10, SP30 etc... so would be hard to prove unless you took a pic of the police readout thingy in their car.
Soldato
I've never had a ticket so I'm not sure if it's common practice to write the speed on it, but I do know that when you receive the NIP in the post it will have the speed, so you definitely would have received something confirming it at some point.
Tbh the guy on PH can be a ****, but he does have a point. I think everybody's tired of hearing these claims and never seeing anything to back it up. The fact that he still hasn't had to pay anything several months after he offered the money certainly suggests that he's right and it doesn't happen, or perhaps used to happen and doesn't happen anymore.
Tbh the guy on PH can be a ****, but he does have a point. I think everybody's tired of hearing these claims and never seeing anything to back it up. The fact that he still hasn't had to pay anything several months after he offered the money certainly suggests that he's right and it doesn't happen, or perhaps used to happen and doesn't happen anymore.