..this morning its located on the A13 heading East after the A128 Brentwood Junction on the way towards Basildon!!

..Clear stretch of 70mph Dual Carraigeway without any evidence of serious accidents..

..why isnt it sat outside a local school?? [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Essex plod's web site says the sites for this week are

Thursday December 12, 2002
AM Brentwood
AM Prittlewell
AM Witham
PM Grays
AM Leigh

Which is not the A13 IMHO. This is not the first time they've done this :(

Link http://www.essex.police.uk

All I can say is thank you to Essex Police for wasting everyones time!!

The A13 west bound traffic was travelling at 0-20mph for 6 miles because of this instead of the usual 50-60mph during rush hour this morning. This added about 20 minutes to the journey time of that stretch and also meant that because everyone was now late the speeds of alot of vehicles along the following sections of the A13 were definiately in excess of the national speed limit. Thats smart policing for you!!

Also if the traffic reports from Essex FM are accurate the was a small accident in the outside lane in that blocked it, some where near to the site of the camera van. So it didn't help raod safety either.

The van itself was similar to the ones sometimes seen in Southend where the cameras are hiden behind flaps in the back doors.

Guess it was going to happen as a squad car was parked a laybay between Stanford-le-hope and Basildon on Monday am, obviously checking speeds. Ready for the revenue exercise.

Anyone else who is using the A13 should know that they normally sit on/ near the bridge after the Stanford-le-hope junction east bound, they also when travelling along the A13 nearly always turn off at evey junction and rejoin to lul drivers in to speeding up just do they can suprise them from behind!!!!

mitch


[Edited by mitch779 - 12/12/2002 12:59:17 PM]

[Edited by mitch779 - 12/12/2002 12:59:48 PM]

Mitch - yeah I was in the tail-back too [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Cheers for the info about the other favoured positions - that stretch can be quite "quick" out of rush hour...

Saw the van parked on the grass verge. Interested to know what kind of speed detection equipment they would have been using as my Bel 966R did not bleep at all.

..fcukers were on the bridge this morning just a half mile from where they were yesterday [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img] must be a good hunting ground

Its amazing how much time and effort the police throw into watching cars.

they wana sort themselves out and find some of these missing girls and the dodgy minicabs that r raping a woman a day, think thats more important.

all these speed traps and cameras just seem to cause more accidents and traffic then there would be without them

Guys, these are NOT speed cameras. They are for tax disc evasion. They slow the traffic down by their very presence, take pics of the car and its reg and then check if it has tax!

Dodgers beware!!!

It got better than that. Everyone braking upon seeing the van, heading west bound, resulted in an accident just before the camera, albeit on the opposite side of the dual carriageway.

It took me an hour to cover 5 miles.

Nice one :(

..this morning Pete or yesterday?

I saw a permanent gatso on the uphill side of a steep A road the other day. It wasn't mounted in the middle of the road so it wasn't even as though they could turn it round !!!

Madness

there's one like that on the A303 westbound, nearly caught me out as I wasnt expecting it there :)

Yesterday