Which speed gun detector?

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Over Clocker

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Hi guys,

I'm after a detector for police speed guns - as in when you get them pointing their speed gun at you from a distance.

Is there anyone that is generally known as the best to go for?

Thank you!

Mal
 
i used to have a bel 550 years ago and it was brilliant. it did save my bacon twice and i honestly think it makes you a more aware driver.

id get another if i got another fast car
 
I ran a road angel plus for a couple of years - only stopped as it broke and was out of warranty.

Saved me a few times when in unfamiliar areas and gatsos were around corners, and also successfully alerted me when a copper was 'shooting' at me - though I had slowed down beforehand due to seeing him well in time so can't comment on how much time you have to slow down/whatever before they actually get a reading.

Good bit of kit though, always accurate, easy to use, looks cool unlike some blocky satnav/camera detectors you can buy, and would buy another one if I had the spare funds to do so.
 
Right now, the Road Angel "Connected" series look good as they have a facility to send/recieve positions of live talivans as soon as they are spotted.

I'm still using an old Origin B2 personally, but am looking at the new RA as a possible replacement.

As for why you need them. Saw a classic example last night in Newport, on the main route in to the Royal Gwent Hospital from the valleys (ie. M4 J28) there's a downhill stretch with a gatso, and the van was parked just around the corner in a completely unlit bit of pavement, at 8PM at night, on a monday, in the pouring rain.

This is the main A&E for the area, and given how hard it is to get an ambulance around here (the Welsh NHS made me drive to that hospital when I had a piece of glass stuck in my eyeball, well they actually told me to get a taxi but that's £40 each way.) they're going to get quite a lot of people going in on genuine emergencies (then refuse to care and prosecute anyway)
 
I used to have a Snooper S5-R was a nice bit of kit and worked well but did have a few false alarms, but thats to be expected.

Now have a satnav with camera locations, and as for the speed guns I just keep an eye out for them.
 
Lum said:
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This is the main A&E for the area, and given how hard it is to get an ambulance around here (the Welsh NHS made me drive to that hospital when I had a piece of glass stuck in my eyeball, well they actually told me to get a taxi but that's £40 each way.) they're going to get quite a lot of people going in on genuine emergencies (then refuse to care and prosecute anyway)
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Considering you were speeding with impaired vision I'm on the side of the police in this instance.
 
Lum said:
This is the main A&E for the area, and given how hard it is to get an ambulance around here (the Welsh NHS made me drive to that hospital when I had a piece of glass stuck in my eyeball, well they actually told me to get a taxi but that's £40 each way.) they're going to get quite a lot of people going in on genuine emergencies (then refuse to care and prosecute anyway)
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You expected an ambulance because you had a bit of glass in your eye? Unless the glass was 15cm long and lodged next to your brain then fair enough, but to expect an ambulance to be taken away from emergency duties for "a bit of glass in your eye". Then instead of getting a taxi, getting a lift from someone you put more people at risk by driving whilst having "a bit of glass in your eye" that some time ago needed an ambulance.

Lets hope you don't have a need for emergency care and the ambulance is attending a serious "eye glass" incident instead of you.
 
Ring Peace said:
You expected an ambulance because you had a bit of glass in your eye? Unless the glass was 15cm long and lodged next to your brain then fair enough, but to expect an ambulance to be taken away from emergency duties for "a bit of glass in your eye". Then instead of getting a taxi, getting a lift from someone you put more people at risk by driving whilst having "a bit of glass in your eye" that some time ago needed an ambulance.

Lets hope you don't have a need for emergency care and the ambulance is attending a serious "eye glass" incident instead of you.
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What I actually wanted was for them to make me an appointment at the local non-A&E out of hours service that I could've walked to, (have to book it through NHS direct) but they decided it was sufficiently serious and in need of immediate attention that I should go to A&E but not sufficiently serious to give me any help getting there. (or indeed to actually look at my damn eye for the first 9 hours after I got there) If there was someone around to give me a lift then I would've gotten a lift, but this is irrelevent for the point I'm trying to make.

I may have picked a bad example to use, but my point was more that that road serves as the main route to A&E for quite a large number of people, the NHS expect you to make your own way there for things that a lot of people would deem to be pretty urgent (I happen to be quite attached to my eyesight and not keen on losing it), so the SCP stick a talivan on the road so in addition to having to spend the night in the A&E waiting room, you have a nice ticket waiting for you when you get home, all because the hill caught you out as you were more worried about the sick/injured person in your car that you want to get to A&E safely.

It's that kind of underhandedness, preying on an already bad situation for people who would normally abide by the law, just to get an easy NIP and another crime solved on the stats, that makes people want to go out and buy detectors.
 
Arent these illegal on the continent though? I remember a warning going out around Le Mans time one year about them. There illegal and will be confiscated on the continent, but if you have one that is hard wired to your car, the car will be confiscated?
 
Radar detectors - legal here - will give you good warning
LASER detectors - legal here - too late by the time it warns you
Pocket GPS World database - legal ofcourse - best of the databases IMHO

Radar jammers - illegal here
LASER jammers - illegal here

Garage Door Opener ;) / Parking Sensor ;) - dubious legal ground
 
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