Speed trap (Seaford)

[treeno]

On the A259 just entering Seaford, Eastbound when I passed it. Had just finished overtaking a slow mover when I spotted it, I slowed but I saw the lady scribbling something as I passed so I have a feeling I've been nabbed.

Keep your eyes peeled guys!
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[lukamon]

scribbling? older person in hi-vis?

probably the local nosy bastards who get given a speed gun for the day and think they're god always give them a friendly rev as I pass
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[wr6133]

If it was an old biddy it's likely community speedwatch. They wear high vis, use signs and generally pretend to be important. Really they are snivelling dross of humanity, wannabe grasses, uniform fetishists, nonces and curtain twitchers but if they have one of them signs that tells you the speed they flash you at it's great for checking how accurate your speedo is at higher speeds by whizzing past them again and again and again.

As to your numberplate if it's the coppers they need evidence of the plate. Scribbling it in a notebook won't hold up in court.

[treeno]

Hmm I'm fairly sure they were police. Had a police sign and they weren't old fogies. I could feel their eyes burning holes in me, but that could be because I knew that I had been speeding during the overtake... When they got me I might have slowed to below the limit or I might have been mid-overtake, in which case it's probably 6 points and bye bye license! Gonna be an agonising wait...
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[berzerker]

Seaford has a Speedwatch group
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10504432.BMW_seized_after_Seaford_volunteers_abused/
Even if they were police why would you get 6 points? I thought Speedwatch sent out letters not NIPs. What was the limit and how fast were you going?
Three yellow jackets, a sign and a speed gun, poor obs
Perhaps you should follow them on twitter https://twitter.com/seafordspeed might save you from the pretend feds in the future.

[Quornholio]

You ride a 500 Ninja?

They'll probably feel sorry for you, and let you off.
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[CarlosCBR]

My sister got one of these letters from a speed watch group in Cambridge for going 38 in a 30. Pretty much said "we saw what you done did... Definitely don't do it again, we have your reg so slow the fack down... Three kittens may or may not of been killed by your actions".
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[Ste]

Give the community speed watchers a break!! They provide a useful public service. With their police calibrated speed guns, you blast past them and then a few days later you'll get a letter in the post congratulating you on your vehicles achievement and they're even kind enough to give you the exact reading from the speed gun.

Do it again and they send you another letter this time with lots of red on it where again they tell you your exact speed but the letter also goes on about your vehicle details have been passed to the local traffic cops. That's the time to sell the vehicle locally, I'm nice like that.

Then you buy another vehicle and start the whole process again. With the vehicle registered to the same address, it seems that they don't link your latest speeding feats to what you achieved in your previous vehicle.

[gavbriggs]

I would at least want to see the individual's training and qualification certificate to operate the speed gun. Then I would want the calibration certificate and I would want to make sure it was type approved.

If none of these are forthcoming I would tell them where to get off. It does my nut in when coppers enlist the help of joe public who have no training or qualification!!! Why do we pay for coppers if we can do the job. If you leather a scrote while they try to run off with your bike or car or whatever you've worked hard for you end up in court!!!

Sticky beak fuckers Should stay in and watch antiques roadshow!!!

[Ste]

[gavbriggs]

The coppers could go use the thousands of pounds of equipment to actually catch people breaking the law.

Who cares if old people want to play plod, they should be bowling or kneeling n the foam matts tending the borders.

It's common knowledge that old folk can't judge speed correctly, your even told all the by car/bike instructors, it may even be n the Highway Code/theory test etc( I might have dreamed that bit though).

Then harassing folk because they may have been speeding, sending threatening letters? You've either commited an offence or you havnt!

It's not a good idea and the money could be spent elsewhere to cut speeding if it is a problem!

And yes if you get caught speeding and get a fine or points or whatever it's your fault, nobody else's!

[treeno]

[ViniH]

[willis1337]