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?

Cant prosecute you

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.

"Assuming I get a NIP through in the post is it worth challenging it?"

on what grounds?

You won't; as Dr Hu says, they're not HO approved for forward facing prosecutions. Having something flash in your face is also hazzardous whilst driving....especially at speed LOL :lol1:

Slow down you hooligan!! :)

Ns04

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.

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?

No they can't. Complain to the police about being dazzled!

Les

NO.

It still looks like a 'flash' in your eyes when they go off though (but wasn't overly dazzling) :mad:

I did that in a hire car... was very tempted to write it off then claim it was the cameras fault... by the time I'd thought it through i was too far away though :lol:

Isn't that admitting that you've been speeding!?:wonder: