speed cameras at night?

peat

Can you get done by speed cameras at night in the country i.e. non built-up/lit-up areas?
Cheers
Peat

paulherts

Yes, unfortunately so.

The flash is designed for that purpose.

Have you been caught?

Cheers Paul

daveboy

This is the UK remember.

There's no money to be made sticking them on hardly used roads, so I'd be very surprised if there are many of them, if any.

It doesn't matter where a camera is, if it is a working one, it will work all the time.

peat

Thanks for the replies, yes I have been caught but not at night. The cameras that I was thinking about specifically are the ones on the A9 main road to north Scotland.

Queenie

Like the old Martini jingle:

"Any time, any place, any where"!

tonys_3

peat wrote:

Can you get done by speed cameras at night in the country i.e. non built-up/lit-up areas?
Cheers
Peat

You can be done but it is not automatic.For instance if the camera housing had no camera in it,you will be ok.Because of the cost of the camera and the annual mantenance charges,less than half the housings actually contain cameras.

I assume that you have been filmed,but not yet received any sort of
summons?Not sure if the situation is the same now,but a few years ago I was talking to a chap who runs a car hire company.Every time one of his cars was filmed,he received a notification,but not all were prosecuted.He was told that other factors were taken into consideration viz.time of night,road
conditions and traffic volume.Pretty much as if you had been stopped by a police car.

This may have changed now since revenue raising is the name of the game.
If you were filmed,and it was during school times,then prosecution will be
inevitable.

Keep your fingers crossed that the postman doesn't call.

silverfoxdude

if they are after revenue then why do they stick 3 points on you thats the real killer im a taxi driver last year i was driving on the m62 near leeds there was 4 lanes 1 was closed due to road works with a 50 miles per hour sign on it this was at 3.30 in the morning not another car on the road i was doing 65mph a tempory camera that was on the roadworks flashed i got a 60 quid fine and 3 points now this is my livlelyhood its not fair its going to cost me my job because they want 60 quid greedy bas......

tonys_3

silverfoxdude wrote:

if they are after revenue then why do they stick 3 points on you

Because they can.

The speed cameras have an unfair bias against high mileage drivers .And the
problem is not being addressed sufficiently either by the authorities,or by the motoring groups like the AA and RAC.So cowed are they by that part of the ott very vociferous nondriving fraternity,that a reasoned debate into the many anomalies and gripes of the motorist, will never be aired And one of them is this subject of speed limits at 3am!Another is the fact that although most,if not all,speedos are inaccurate,this is not taken into account in
any prosecution.

m00nie

simple fact to the matter is DONT SPEED...

silverfoxdude

moonie if you were driving on a 4 lane motorway at 65 mph with no other cars on the road im sure you would slow down to 50mph at 3.30 am yeh right

Queenie

tonys wrote:

The speed cameras have an unfair bias against high mileage drivers ..

Taradiddle!!!!! Unless of course you are suggesting that all "high mileage drivers" are the only one's who abuse speed limits? There *IS* no bias with speed camera's against any particular race, creed, colour, religion, profession, or ... mileage users! They are ONLY bias towards those who EXCEED the speed limit

Equally, can you qualify your remark that *most* are inaccurate? Do you have any facts to substantiate that sweeping statement or are you merely being imaginative and "dramatic".

silverfoxdude - while I do take on board the point about being "3.30 in the morning not another car on the road" you cannot alter the FACT you were exceeding the speed limit by 15mph.
Are you saying then that
a) as a taxi driver you should be exempt from speed limits?
In my opinion, if taxi driving is your living, you should therefore be even more respectful of the Highway Laws and the consequences! You are a "professional" driver: you, of anyone, should be even more aware of the Highway Laws! Your "taxi" license is not a license to ignore/bend the rules to suit your purpose. If you've flouted the Highway Laws, and it's costing you your chosen living, then ... uuuuuunnnnnnlucky matey! You've only got yourself to blame.
b) or perhaps that the law at night should differ from the law by daylight hours?
Nonsense! Just for a moment, hypothetically, apply that arguement to others laws: rape at night would be more scarey therefore should have a higher penalty? - but daytime rape should carry a lesser penalty as it would not be "boogey men in the dark" as scarey?
c) or even, that you should be excused any penalty because you drive for a living and therefore the personal consequences to you make it unfair? If you valued your living you wouldn't have exceeded the Highway Laws, regardless of time of night/cars on the road/etc.