speed cam van may have got me.

[Ribenapigeon]

I noticed the damn van as I came over the brow of a hill on some duel carriage way. It a 40 limit and I was doing fifty. I immediately slowed before passing it then turned left off the duelly about 20 yards beyond the van. Would its rear camera be wide angle enough to have got my plate. The van actually parks up about five yards parralel to the carriageways on a side road running parralel to the dually so I'm hoping turning left close enough to the van I may not have had my plate visible to it. If I do get done what's 50 in a 40 going to cost me?

[Andy_Pagin]

Just because your indicated speed was fifty it doesn't necessarily mean you were actually going that fast.
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[UrbanRacer]

When you see a camera van its too late to slow down, it will have already pinged you at speed.

[Ben90]

Should have wheelied as you passed it

[Ribenapigeon]

I rekon my speedo is out by 3% so they will have pinged me at 48.5mph coming towards them. Its whether I managed to avoid their rear facing camera by turning left just after the van. Do they send you a picture like with bus lane cameras?

[Pol Anorl]

[Copycat73]

[Nobby the Bastard]

You do know that your number plate is on the back and their camera can't follow you through their vehical?

So they won't have radar/lazer evidence of speed and your number plate in one continous video? I'd be asking for evidence that it was me.
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[Ribenapigeon]

[FretGrinder]

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[Wednesday Biker]

Did 50 on a dual carriage way that is 40 and slowed as soon as I saw the copper.
Never heard anything but then those slow down signs usually say thank you when I'm doing 5mph more than the limit
You'll prob be ok

[Commuter_Tim]

[Vracktal]

If you're only 10 over and turned off right after passing the van you might have got away with it. If I remember rightly the speed vans can only track one vehicle at a time, and they try to scan vehicles on both carriageways at the same time (cars coming towards the back of the van and going away from them) so they might have been focusing on another vehicle.

There's a really nasty one on the A3 between the M25 and where the kingston bypass begins/ends, it parks on a raised platform on the southbound side just off from the hard shoulder, where the road both bends sharply and the limit slows from NSL to 50mph. From the northbound lane you can't see it until you're very close, so it catches cars who've just passed the 50 sign but are still doing 60-70. Also fear it might have caught me out today as well.
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[Ste]

[Ribenapigeon]

I'm not relishing having to shell out cash just got news I didn't get a job I interviewed for which would have been a 5k pay rise. If id got it I would have been laighing it off.

[Ben90]

[Albigularis]

Cellotape your phone to your bike and get a speedometer app, hold it at an indicated 50. I'd be surprised if it was over a real 45. I'd imagine the speed trigger in the van to be 47/48.

I wouldn't lose sleep over it.
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