Possible speed camera query
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Twice recently I've seen an anonymous piece of kit by the side of the 30mph residential road I live on.
It's a dark-painted box about a foot cubed, on a two-foot tripod. It seems to have a window pointed horizontally across the road. There's a small lamp unit on the ground next to it, smaller than an average headlight, also pointing across the road. There aren't any associated rubber strips or other kit.
It's been unmanned both times, and has appeared sometime late afternoon and gone the next morning. It's within a mile of a highly-visible fixed GATSO.
Any ideas what it is? A speed cam or an elaborate traffic-flow meter?
It's a dark-painted box about a foot cubed, on a two-foot tripod. It seems to have a window pointed horizontally across the road. There's a small lamp unit on the ground next to it, smaller than an average headlight, also pointing across the road. There aren't any associated rubber strips or other kit.
It's been unmanned both times, and has appeared sometime late afternoon and gone the next morning. It's within a mile of a highly-visible fixed GATSO.
Any ideas what it is? A speed cam or an elaborate traffic-flow meter?
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hmmn,go and have a closer look next time you see it and let us know what you find,could be a camera,you never know with the establishment,i heard tha they put em in dustbins by the side of the road on the continent,sneaky or what!!!!!!!!!
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This sounds exactly like a mobile speed camera. There is normally an unmarked van nearby. Dorset Police have several and use them extensively.
I used to work for Siemens Traffic Controls and they had several of these laying around. It took all my self control not to sabotage the piggin things.
I used to work for Siemens Traffic Controls and they had several of these laying around. It took all my self control not to sabotage the piggin things.
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Basically it has all the equipment that a speed camera has in a box that mounts on a tripod. It takes a picture in the normal way IIRC. As they are hidden or difficult to spot - and the film is easy to replace - they normally get far more people than a static camera.
Dorset must be one of the richest counties in the country. 8 years ago they were getting 500 people a week (with all cameras). They were kind enough to gloat this fact on signs everywhere. How anyone in Dorset still has a licence I don't know. I even had a speeding ticket accepted as ID in a bank once. To say I was glad to get out of Dorset would be a huge understatement.
[Edited by Jerome - 2/21/2003 1:53:13 PM]
Dorset must be one of the richest counties in the country. 8 years ago they were getting 500 people a week (with all cameras). They were kind enough to gloat this fact on signs everywhere. How anyone in Dorset still has a licence I don't know. I even had a speeding ticket accepted as ID in a bank once. To say I was glad to get out of Dorset would be a huge understatement.
[Edited by Jerome - 2/21/2003 1:53:13 PM]
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