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[TheBoy]

Bang goes my clean licence by the look of things.
This morning I received a Notice of Intended Prosecution for 41mph in a 30 limit.
Checked the location and it is the mobile camera van that often parked less than 100yds from my house.
The road in question is a 30 limit due to it being a residential area and the camera is located just after the end of the buildings, where the road opens up for a half mile of common ground, no trees, hedges, buildings, nothing at all, down to a roundabout that then becomes a 40 limit, but still the same open ground.

My question is, how do I request a copy of the photograph and is it possible to be a false reading off a vehicle coming out of the 40 limit towards the camera as I was passing ?As I previously mentioned, this van is less than 100yds from my house and I just can't accept that I was doing that speed especially as I know it's often there.

What is annoying is that there is a 1.5 mile stretch of built up, residential area that I often see idiots travelling along at what I would estimate to me 45-50mph and yet the camera is facing away from this area and is directed at the open ground, where most drivers are likely to accellerate into the 40 limit. (Profit rather than safety?  Surely not !!)
The area was a flood plain, so you'll know what I mean by totally flat, open ground.


    
        
  

No, it was you, the camera is manually pointed at the car photographed.  Fair cop...

[Andy B]

Bang goes my clean licence by the look of things.
This morning I received a Notice of Intended Prosecution for 41mph in a 30 limit.
Checked the location and it is the mobile camera van that often parked less than 100yds from my house.
The road in question is a 30 limit due to it being a residential area and the camera is located just after the end of the buildings, where the road opens up for a half mile of common ground, no trees, hedges, buildings, nothing at all, down to a roundabout that then becomes a 40 limit, but still the same open ground.

My question is, how do I request a copy of the photograph and is it possible to be a false reading off a vehicle coming out of the 40 limit towards the camera as I was passing ?As I previously mentioned, this van is less than 100yds from my house and I just can't accept that I was doing that speed especially as I know it's often there.

What is annoying is that there is a 1.5 mile stretch of built up, residential area that I often see idiots travelling along at what I would estimate to me 45-50mph and yet the camera is facing away from this area and is directed at the open ground, where most drivers are likely to accellerate into the 40 limit. (Profit rather than safety?  Surely not !!)
The area was a flood plain, so you'll know what I mean by totally flat, open ground.


    
        
  

When i had my first speeding fine back in 2004 they gave me an option, go on a 1 day speed awearness training for £60.00 and dont get any points, i opted for that. 5 months later i was caught again and got the 3 points and a fine.

you really took the course seriously then!

As I was on my way to attend a speed awareness course   I was playing with a '911' ....... eventually realisation dawned on me .....  

[Kevin Wood]

As I was on my way to attend a speed awareness course   I was playing with a '911' ....... eventually realisation dawned on me .....  

Do you have to get nicked to go on these courses? Would be worth going on one just to sit there planning my exit from the car park.  

Kevin

[over50now]

41 in a 30.   almost certain, no speed course offered

[HolyCount]

Speed course is generally offered to those "Unintentional speeders" --- they sift you out if you are doing less than 39 in a 30 area ( some force areas chose 35 I believe).  Object being they consider you  normallly tow the line, but just need a bit of a reminder.

[Turk]

Well with 1 ticket in 27 years and my Average Consumption showing between 41-45mpg per week on general town and A roads driving, does that sound like I have a lead boot on my right foot ?
My mates reckon I'm bordering on Driving Miss Daisy material  

That's another thing...41mph in a 30 limit. That sounds almost reckless...but the other side of the roundabout is exactly the same wide open ground and is a 40 limit.
If I knew how to post an image I'd post one from Google Earth. Then you'd see what I mean about the built-up area behind whilst the camera concentrates on the wide open, dead straight, un-obstructed 30 limit.
Don't get me wrong, exceeding the speed limit is speeding...end of chat, but why are they ignoring the residential area behind the camera van ??  There is over a mile of houses with front doors that open directly onto the pavement. If a child ran out of one of those houses, the width of the pavement is all that seperates them from the road.      

[HolyCount]

Well with 1 ticket in 27 years and my Average Consumption showing between 41-45mpg per week on general town and A roads driving, does that sound like I have a lead boot on my right foot ?
My mates reckon I'm bordering on Driving Miss Daisy material  

That's another thing...41mph in a 30 limit. That sounds almost reckless...but the other side of the roundabout is exactly the same wide open ground and is a 40 limit.
If I knew how to post an image I'd post one from Google Earth. Then you'd see what I mean about the built-up area behind whilst the camera concentrates on the wide open, dead straight, un-obstructed 30 limit.
Don't get me wrong, exceeding the speed limit is speeding...end of chat, but why are they ignoring the residential area behind the camera van ??  There is over a mile of houses with front doors that open directly onto the pavement. If a child ran out of one of those houses, the width of the pavement is all that seperates them from the road.      

I know exactly what you mean - one of the most flashed stretches around here sounds about the same - but on that stretch of road the limit used to vary twixt 30 and 50 in mile stretches with no rhyme or reason as to which limit went where !! With the best wil in the world it was nigh on impossible to figure out which limit applied to any given stretch --- thankfully the powers that be finally figured this out and tidied it up!