Flashed for 42mph in a 40?!

Driving home last night in the car (too bloody cold and slippy for the bike)
Coming up to a gatso that's been there for at least a year and I know all
about it. Car in front jumps on anchors and slows to 35mph. I thought
bugger this, it's a forty limit and move to outside lane (dual carriageway).
I passed said car and then got the old double flash in the mirror.

Now, I checked my speed just before passing the camera and then as it
flashed me. Not once did I see the needle on my speedo pass 42mph. So
what's that all about then? Have I confused the thing? I mean 42 is taking
the piss, surely I would have grounds to fight it. I've passed this camera
at that speed nearly every day since it was put up.

Have cameras been known like the old radar guns to give completely false
readings? What if it said I was doing 50 or 70 or something silly?

What does the FOAK reckon then?

The car's a Nissan 1L Micra so it's hardly going to tear up the tarmac. So,
it was £50 and I needed wheels.What does the FOAK reckon then?

 

You should have noted the number plate of the car you overtook as a
witness to how slowly you crawled past. 10% speedo error would put you in
the clear anyway. Good luck. Of course they might not summons you anyway.

Call the taste police.

 

Does the 10% error allowance no longer apply then? How would the camera know
whether his speedo was spot on or underreading by 9.9%?

 

Not under the new prosposals going through - no - speeding will be speeding.

But you'll only get 2 points. Yay.

 

I'm pretty sure it's firmer than that, BIMBW. SWKWBAS.

But sometimes they do, and the motorist is given a 10% of leeway under the
law, because he has no way of telling if his speedo is a bit out.

 

By law they must not under read - we've done this one a few times on here in
the past I believe.

and the motorist is given a 10% of leeway

They were ACPO(is that right?) guidelines - never any kind of law AFAIK.

 

Odds are it was empty.

If it were me, and an NIP arrives, I would contest it, swearing that I
was aware of the camera and my speedo was bang on 40mph, the car is
road legal/mot'd [1] and I want the speedo tested.

[1] none of which has anything to do with a working speedo, but worth
throwing a bit of rhetorical dust about.

 

Surely that's a matter the police would have to take up with the
manufacturer rather than the motorist, assuming the motorist hasn't
modified the vehicle in such a way as to cause the speedo to under read,
by fgitting bigger wheels and or tyreprofiles than standard.

Ah ok

 

I wouldn't worry about it. There is nothing you can do anyway until you
receive something through the post, which I doubt you will. If you do
receive something, keep hold of it - including the envelope it came in - and
have a look at www.pepipoo.com before you do anything else.

 

Thanks, bookmarked.

 

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I thought the non compulsory "recommendation" from the Government to the
ACPO was 10% plus 2 mph ?



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Ta for the clarification

Sounds like the OP shouldn't be getting a NIP then.

 

That was my understanding too.

 

Two stroke smoke emerged from their own little world to say

You say it was a dual carriageway. Was the camera in the central
reservation? Was a vehicle coming the other way? Some older cameras, when
the film has run out, are triggered by oncoming vehicles.

 

Ooh - good explanation. I reckon that could be it.

 

Two stroke smoke wrote:

How fast was the top of the wheel travelling?
Perhaps the gatso picked up the tasteful reflective Christmas
decorations you fixed on the wheeltrims.

 

Does that include his daughter?

True in theory.

 

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.... and himself too

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1489176.stm

"....Mr Brunstrom said he was "ashamed" of his speeding, which he
described as "dangerous" and "anti-social".... "

Somehow I get a pictire of the pot noodle advert flashing up ;o)

"you know it's dirty and you want it"



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Nope, nearside kerb. Thought had croosed me mind.

 

If there are 2 vehicles in the photograph they will usually not bother
to procede with a case.
It gets too messy and time consuming because you will claim the other
car undertook you.
It has been said that cases where the accused fights back usually get
dropped.

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