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Mr Hammers
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PostPosted: 13:16 - 09 Oct 2008    Post subject: Caught speeding...or have i..? Reply with quote
Was doing around 80 down the bypass, and the limit now - thanks to a some daft old woman crossing the central reservation and killing herself and a bunch of kids - is only 50 (even though they put great big tank busters in the CR...talk about overkill).

No other traffic around, so i'm merrily on my way but as i come round the curve (not bendy enough to be called a bend) i spy a bloody speedtrap van thing.

On with the brakes and pootle past at 50.

Now, assuming they must have caught me for that brief moment over the limit but obviously didn't get my number till i went past, should i still expect something nasty in the post?



I still think these vans are terribly unsporting. It's just simply not cricket.
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PostPosted: 13:19 - 09 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Should not be.

But you need to wait 2 week, if you dnt hear anything then your safe.

Please dnt speed mate.
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PostPosted: 13:52 - 09 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jai466 wrote:


Please dnt speed mate.


Yeah, I for one sit up all night worrying about people I've never met off an internet forum. They might go 20mph over the speed limit and kill a small child, or god forbid, a box of abandoned kittens!

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PostPosted: 13:54 - 09 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jai466 wrote:
Should not be.

But you need to wait 2 week, if you dnt hear anything then your safe.

Please dnt speed mate.


Why not? They would have got the speed reading from as soon as he came into view, on the vans now there are cameras on the side and front of the van to get motorcycle registration numbers as well.

They have 14 days to post the NIP so after 3 weeks and you don't heat anything you should be safe.
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PostPosted: 13:57 - 09 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wasn't there something about these vans not being able to get bikes? And an article on the BBC where the Leicestershite constabulary were working on a van that could... Might be worth looking into Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 14:01 - 09 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jai466 wrote:


Please dnt speed mate.


On an empty bypass? Why the hell not?

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PostPosted: 14:06 - 09 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Doh! I guess this was the eastern ring road just shy of the green road roundabout? If so one of the lads who works for me thought he got done down there at the weekend in his mini as well!

Can't really offer you any advice, that stretch of road begs you to go over 50 and I for one have always struggled to stay within the limits along there.

The other place to watch out for locally is the bottom of Headington Hill, you can free wheel down there and be done, as I was a couple of years ago!

Bad luck, fingers crossed there's nothing in the post!
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PostPosted: 14:39 - 09 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
https://www.lidatek.com/specslt.html

and before the safety nazi kitten hugging never do anything wrong brigade start.......it also opens garage doors Wink
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Mr Hammers
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PostPosted: 14:39 - 09 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Stav wrote:
Doh! I guess this was the eastern ring road just shy of the green road roundabout?

Yup, that's the kiddie. Always careful of the Headington one, but until yesterday i'd not seen one on that bit of the bypass.

As you say, it's definitely not a 50 road. It is ridiculous. I've been on country roads rated 60 that are more dangerous to speed on, and in all my years i've never seen one accident down there. Putting a van there is the perfect example of blatant money making and abso-bloody-lutely bvgger all to do with safety.

If they caught only 10 people an hour, and sat there for 3 hours, then that will generate £1800. Not bad for a few hours work Rolling Eyes
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Bad luck, fingers crossed there's nothing in the post!

Fingers, and toes, suitably crossed. Cheers, Stav.

And cheers for all the replies everyone, and thanks for your concern, Jai466, but i am a big boy now Wink
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PostPosted: 16:13 - 09 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bofh5 wrote:
https://www.lidatek.com/specslt.html

and before the safety nazi kitten hugging never do anything wrong brigade start.......it also opens garage doors Wink


If that is what I think it is ie: a Laser Jammer then I understand it's illegal, even if it does open garage doors.

So don't get caught with it.
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Mr Hammers
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PostPosted: 16:31 - 09 Oct 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kal wrote:
So don't get caught with it.

No fear, Kal, I wouldn't dream of having something illegal as that.



The fact that i just couldn't afford one anyway is neither here nor there.


Or over here.
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