Can a conventional GATSO catch you speeding from the front?
27 March 2006, 09:34 AM
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Can a conventional GATSO catch you speeding from the front?
Went out to pick up the wife from town on Saturday night at gone 3am and drove past a GATSO I've been through many times before.
It is in a 30mph limit facing south. I was travelling NORTH at 40mph.
There is a hatched region in the middle of the road for cars turning right. The camera markings on the road are in all 3 "lanes"
The thing flashed in my face as I passed on the opposite side of the road to the camera. No one else around, I was doing 40mph.
Can they "get you" in this manner? Assuming I get a NIP through in the post is it worth challenging it?
It is in a 30mph limit facing south. I was travelling NORTH at 40mph.
There is a hatched region in the middle of the road for cars turning right. The camera markings on the road are in all 3 "lanes"
The thing flashed in my face as I passed on the opposite side of the road to the camera. No one else around, I was doing 40mph.
Can they "get you" in this manner? Assuming I get a NIP through in the post is it worth challenging it?
27 March 2006, 10:57 AM
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Nope - I set them off facing me all the time. At least once a week.
Apparently they are not Home Office Approved for forwards facing or something like that.....as read somewhere on www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk
Can't recommend this sport with the blue coloured Truvelo cameras though, as they ARE forward facing - easily spotted as they have red lenses for the infra red.
Apparently they are not Home Office Approved for forwards facing or something like that.....as read somewhere on www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk
Can't recommend this sport with the blue coloured Truvelo cameras though, as they ARE forward facing - easily spotted as they have red lenses for the infra red.
27 March 2006, 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Tiggs
"Assuming I get a NIP through in the post is it worth challenging it?"
on what grounds?
on what grounds?
Slow down you hooligan!!
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27 March 2006, 11:37 AM
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On the grounds that the device isnt diesgned/calibrated for catching me where I was and therefore they cant proove I was actually speeding.
It was 40mph at 3am in the morning.
It was 40mph at 3am in the morning.
27 March 2006, 11:40 AM
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I've set gatso's off many a time driving towards them, there's one in crewe near ABP motorsport that goes off everytime. They can't prosecute though unless it's a truvelo. It shouldn;t be flashing in your face in the first place , that's why the truvelo's have Infra red isn't it?
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29 March 2006, 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Avi
It shouldn;t be flashing in your face in the first place , that's why the truvelo's have Infra red isn't it?
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