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CaNsA
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PostPosted: 19:00 - 04 Mar 2011    Post subject: Out from behind a bush! Reply with quote
Whats the law regarding traffic coppers with a laser speed camera?

Do there have to be "speed camera" signs along the road?

Does he have to be easily visible? etc etc

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PostPosted: 19:39 - 04 Mar 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
https://www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk/radar1.htm

Hand held radar is typically used by the roadside by one officer, he will take the reading and then pull you over. Incidentally it is common practice for the operator to hide from view of the opposite direction traffic so that they don't flash the ones he wants to measure as they come towards him.

The maker of Speedar

https://www.speedar.co.uk/Handbook/Speedar-log-vision-disp.PDF
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PostPosted: 19:55 - 04 Mar 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ah, not the cool story (bro) of an experience on Hampstead Heath then Neutral

It's only fixed cameras that have to be signposted, I think.
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PostPosted: 19:59 - 04 Mar 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
They used to put up these:

https://www.dft.gov.uk/trafficsignsimages/images/SignImages/480x480/829.5.jpg
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PostPosted: 20:08 - 04 Mar 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Paxovasa wrote:
They used to put up these:

https://www.dft.gov.uk/trafficsignsimages/images/SignImages/480x480/829.5.jpg


They tend to put those up all over the place these days, even when they rarely (if ever) actually lurk there. Such as on parts of the A259.

But a few weeks ago there was an ambush waiting up ahead that wasn't signposted just outside Gillingham, heading towards Sittingbourne (props to the white van man who flashed a warning to the several of us heading that way).
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PostPosted: 20:51 - 04 Mar 2011    Post subject: Re: Out from behind a bush! Reply with quote
CaNsA wrote:
Do there have to be "speed camera" signs along the road?


Some area's in North Yorks have speed camera signs up..... Yet they don't have a single speed camera...... Evil or Very Mad
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PostPosted: 20:57 - 04 Mar 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think the other ones that have to put up temp sign is the Community Do-Gooders that get to use the Speedars in noting down speeders info to pass onto the Police for possible Prosecution/fining !
https://www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk/Images/Hathersage%20Bradwell%20speed%20watch%20350px_tcm19-155940.jpg

https://www.safersurreyheath.info/images/surreyheathboroughcouncil/safersurreyheathpartnership/CommunitySpeedWatch.gif
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PostPosted: 21:29 - 04 Mar 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Scotsman37 wrote:
I think the other ones that have to put up temp sign is the Community Do-Gooders that get to use the Speedars in noting down speeders info to pass onto the Police for possible Prosecution/fining !
https://www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk/Images/Hathersage%20Bradwell%20speed%20watch%20350px_tcm19-155940.jpg

https://www.safersurreyheath.info/images/surreyheathboroughcouncil/safersurreyheathpartnership/CommunitySpeedWatch.gif


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Scotsman37
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PostPosted: 21:51 - 04 Mar 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
CHR15 wrote:
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noting down speeders info to pass onto the Police for possible Prosecution/fining !

actually, all they can do is write you a really nasty letter.

i imagine if you kept getting them they'd s59 you.



https://cms.wiltshire.gov.uk/Data/Corsham%20Area%20Board/20091013/Agenda/$Item%20No%2007%20-%20Community%20Speed%20Watch.doc.pdf

Guidance notes for CSW users of Speedars;

The CSW Volunteers record the registration numbers of vehicles exceeding the speed limit
this information is passed to the CSW Coordinator and a letter is sent warning the
Registered Keeper. If there are vehicles found to be persistently offending they will be
targeted by the Police with a view to issuing a Fixed Penalty Notice or to instigate court
proceedings.
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