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[omegadan67]

They are only as good as the as the weather/windscreen and camera allow. Having said that 3 years ago leaving london on the A4 i was driving a 44 ton truck for security reasons due to the nature of goods i was carring i had a camera linked to my laptop and looped 20 minutes record time,4 cameras front,back,left and right side.

Just as i was approaching a junction where the 3 lanes would only just get 3 cars side by side or a truck and a car i had an accident. I was in the middle lane and half of the inside lane due to the size of my vehicle the outside land was for turning right only,I was overtaken by a black BMW which then swerved in to the lane i was in quickly followed by a Volvo estate car. the traffic in front slowed and stopped and as a conscuence i hit the Volvo estate car. Needless to say at 20 miles per hour weighing 44 tons there wasnt a lot left of the said Volvo.

To my surprise when the dust settled 2 police officers where stood waiting for me to get out of the cab, when i did get out i was arrestted for dangerous driving and damaging a POLICE VOLVO !!!!!!!!!!


Too cut a long story short,rear end accidents are the fault of the drivers who run in to you, and the police officers duly said i was at fault,being a undercover camera car they claimed tohave footage of my driving being bad.

the Police car was on duty follow a suspect vehicle and i happened to take them out as they put it.

open and shut case. Until i happened to say that i have the last 15 minutes of my driving on film although not linked to a speed readout the police chief who came out to the secne of the accident asked if he could view what i had recorded and promptly released me from custody of the other officers after viewing the recording.


A year later i was shock to learn that what i had recorded was used as evidence in a criminal case against the driver of the BMW along with several others that had commited driving offences caught on my cameras.
 
The company's insurance rep was quite pleased that i had proof the accident was not my fault and as far as i know London City Police paid for the damage to my truck after seeing the recording i had made 

i still have the footage of the day and the pictures of the fubared Volvo Police car i shall dig them out and post on here. 

[Mr Skrunts]

They are only as good as the as the weather/windscreen and camera allow. Having said that 3 years ago leaving london on the A4 i was driving a 44 ton truck for security reasons due to the nature of goods i was carring i had a camera linked to my laptop and looped 20 minutes record time,4 cameras front,back,left and right side.

Just as i was approaching a junction where the 3 lanes would only just get 3 cars side by side or a truck and a car i had an accident. I was in the middle lane and half of the inside lane due to the size of my vehicle the outside land was for turning right only,I was overtaken by a black BMW which then swerved in to the lane i was in quickly followed by a Volvo estate car. the traffic in front slowed and stopped and as a conscuence i hit the Volvo estate car. Needless to say at 20 miles per hour weighing 44 tons there wasnt a lot left of the said Volvo.

To my surprise when the dust settled 2 police officers where stood waiting for me to get out of the cab, when i did get out i was arrestted for dangerous driving and damaging a POLICE VOLVO !!!!!!!!!!


Too cut a long story short,rear end accidents are the fault of the drivers who run in to you, and the police officers duly said i was at fault,being a undercover camera car they claimed tohave footage of my driving being bad.

the Police car was on duty follow a suspect vehicle and i happened to take them out as they put it.

open and shut case. Until i happened to say that i have the last 15 minutes of my driving on film although not linked to a speed readout the police chief who came out to the secne of the accident asked if he could view what i had recorded and promptly released me from custody of the other officers after viewing the recording.


A year later i was shock to learn that what i had recorded was used as evidence in a criminal case against the driver of the BMW along with several others that had commited driving offences caught on my cameras.
 
The company's insurance rep was quite pleased that i had proof the accident was not my fault and as far as i know London City Police paid for the damage to my truck after seeing the recording i had made 

i still have the footage of the day and the pictures of the fubared Volvo Police car i shall dig them out and post on here. 

EXCELLENT!  Just shows how the law works in this country, guilty till you prove yourself inocent, I allways thought it was inocent untill proved guilty.

Benrfical for you, your licence and your company, and proof that you are a professional driver, sadly not the same for others, icluding 2 traffic cops that wrongly used thier powers. 

[Danny]

yes, please do show us the footage or link it on youtube if you can, i'd love to see it

[Danny]

I've got my car camera today, not bad, 10 days from china!

awaiting a video upload to see whether its any good

[Sixstring]

I can today confirm that the "powers that be" are just issuing a government white paper giving guidelines and requirements for "publically owned and fitted camera on vehicles" which will lay out WHAT and WHERE you can fit them, and evidential requirements. This was reported in the security industry journal my company recieves every month from the DTI.

(by the way, this was initiated by Lord mandelson BEFORE the election)

Only goes to show..............

[Danny]

meaning there's a possibility that i cant legally have it recording on, say, my journey to work?