Speed Camera Advice Please

davetrousers

bargepole wrote: »

Irrelevant. Whether he was driving at Mach2 or the speed of an arthritic snail, he can't be done from a

Gatso

facing oncoming traffic.

Interesting thought, that speed bears no relevance in a potential case of speeding.

Coblcris

You can be done oncoming to a Gatso in manned (attended) mode, not from a fixed in in auto.

A Truvelo can get you oncoming.

Crazy_Jamie

Good article in the Express last week by Freddie Forsythe about speed cameras.
The gist of it: doing 29mph on a dark, wet,busy night,on a slippery road is OK for the camera but 31mph at 6am on a fine, dry,clear morning, with no traffic about is NOT ok for the speed camera.
Speed cameras have no feelings and can`t evaluate conditions.

Doesn't sound like the best article in the world to me. Speed cameras only judge speed, and don't pretend to judge anything else. Speeding is the offence of breaking the speed limit. Unsuitable driving relative to road conditions may fit into other offences, but it is not speeding if the speed limit is not broken, so why would a speed camera catch it? Also a speed camera wouldn't actually get you if you were doing 31mph in a 30mph zone. You have to be exceeding the limit by a certain amount before you are caught in them, which by default gives the driver little excuse.

Speed cameras catch people who have broken the speed limit (notwithstanding the faulty ones, obviously). The argument regarding different speeds being suitable at different times is rarely appropriate in these circumstances because it offers no excuse when the limit is already known. The offence is not driving unsafely. The offence is speeding. Whether the individual speed limits are appropriate is a separate argument, and it doesn't help the cause of the person caught by a speed camera when they bring that argument up after they have already been caught either.