Spotter planes catching speeders
I heard a fairly extreme story today regarding someone speeding, that was pulled over a good 10 minutes later by the police.
They explained that the spotter plane had witnessed him going too fast, so recorded him and called it in. They claimed that the white reference points on the road with video evidence was enough for them to be prosecuted.
He then went on to claim that it turns out the plane didn't record enough of it, and he got off scot-free.
Now, I know of someone who was caught wheelying up and down our dual carriage way by a spotter plane - and subsequently done for dangerous driving, but actually being done for speeding in such a fashion seems plausible, but a little too extreme for my liking.
So anyone in the know? Could it work? I'd imagine the video recording equipment would at least be able to capture the numberplate clearly and have some sort of calibrated time stamp? (I'd doubt playback speed would be deemed reliable enough).
I heard a fairly extreme story today regarding someone speeding, that was pulled over a good 10 minutes later by the police.
They explained that the spotter plane had witnessed him going too fast, so recorded him and called it in. They claimed that the white reference points on the road with video evidence was enough for them to be prosecuted.
He then went on to claim that it turns out the plane didn't record enough of it, and he got off scot-free.
Now, I know of someone who was caught wheelying up and down our dual carriage way by a spotter plane - and subsequently done for dangerous driving, but actually being done for speeding in such a fashion seems plausible, but a little too extreme for my liking.
So anyone in the know? Could it work? I'd imagine the video recording equipment would at least be able to capture the numberplate clearly and have some sort of calibrated time stamp? (I'd doubt playback speed would be deemed reliable enough).
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