Could I Have Been Caught

numark1 · Scared of girls Joined: 09 May 2004 Karma :

I went past a police man with a radar gun the other night (round 9:30) Anyway i was doing 50 in the 30 limit. I looked at him as i went passed and thought oooops. Anyway my dad said that it will be fine because with the guns they usually have a police car down the road to pull you over. He also said that there would be no proof if they sent me a NIP because i saw no flash for him to take a picture.

If i get a letter should i write back and ask proof to see the picture and calibration cert of the radar gun. It's pretty neg if i get caught and i have to take the points because i only passed on the 12th of May last year so i still have another year until i can get my 12point license.

Gazdaman · I did a trackday!!! Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Karma :

I don't think they take any physical evidence i.e a photo, I was thinking about this earlier.

So if they don't stop you at the time, you should be ok.

Gaz

Kris · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Feb 2002 Karma :

If he wrote down your numberplate then you may be in trouble.

What are you doing 30 in a 50 for anyway??? YOu could have killed a kitten! Evil or Very Mad

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numark1 · Scared of girls Joined: 09 May 2004 Karma :

^^ That's what i thought, could have written my plate down. When i looked at him he talked something into his radio. Surely there is no proof though. I could have said my dad rode it that day, which he actually did to check the brakes were ok.

Bod · Traffic Copper Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Karma :

I went through a traffic light with the little black camera on the top, hope that aint no camera Confused

Gazdaman · I did a trackday!!! Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Karma :

It's not.

Traffic light cameras are yellow, look just like anorexic speed cameras.

Gaz

mchaggis · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 May 2004 Karma :

I ran a red light straight a through a busy junction a while ago because I was too busy trying to work out what the hell the traffic streams were doing in front of me. I was lucky it was clear when I went pelting through at 50 odd. There's a little black box on the light I ran, I didn't get a ticket for it.
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R4nger · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Karma :

Red light cameras do not have to be covered in yellow. They look like a normal gatso but are thinner in width at the top, like the digital ones.

Black Knight · World Chat Champion Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Karma :

To answer the original post, You got be looking at 3 pts and a fine. There is no need for the coppers to pull you over, flash you or anything else. They have witnessed you commiting a 'crime' and may well procecute.

If you get an NIP through the post, hold your hands up, just pay it and be more careful in future.

Re-doing your test is not fun, bear in mind its not just the practical, its the whole lot including theory test.

Fingers crossed for ya pal Smile

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bash · Derestricted Danger Joined: 26 Apr 2005 Karma :

the little box on the top is a sensor.if say at three in the morning you approach the lights and they are on red if you flash your lights they change to green quicker if nothing is at the other lights
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Frost · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 May 2004 Karma :

Been through a fair few red lights as of late.

They seem to have the same timing as lights in 30 limits (eg go amber for a second) at 60mph you can stop in good weather conditions. If its damp or your doing a generous 60 then you have to crack the throttle open and hope to get through before they go red. It's really starting to worry me now.

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Frost · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 May 2004 Karma :

HAHAHA! thats a good one! Laughing

impaler · Crazy Courier Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Karma :

When I was working in Warrington last summer I used to commute along the East Lancs Road - it's a proper dual carriageway.... with traffic light junctions.
It's always a bit jittery belting up to a junction knowing that the lights could be about to change, especially as a lot of the junctions have red light cameras on them Shocked

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chief-0369 · L Plate Warrior Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Karma :

tony532 · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 May 2004 Karma :

i think from memory that ambulances in america can flash a strobe at the lights and change them

Bod · Traffic Copper Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Karma :

Nice one thanks for your help. Mind you, I was on the M60 the other week and was doing nearly a ton and saw a white camera on the side of a gantry, nothing connected to it they everywhere tho.

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chief-0369 · L Plate Warrior Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Karma :

All the british, traffic signals priority systems in use currently rely on GPS+Radio. Its effective, reliable and is nigh on impossible for an unauthorised vehicle to use it.

And yes, it does have limitations with cycles and delays. Shorter delays than would be had by a normal vehicle but delays none the less. Hence why, as you say, emergency vehicles are better to go on Blues and Twos and why they rarely have it fitted.

It is normally used for buses though so bus lanes get priority over normally traffic. It reduces delays to buses when its used but without increasing delays to cars to a critical level (usually) Smile

mchaggis · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 May 2004 Karma :

Would that be the reason behind some of the ludicrously short periods of time that the green is on on busy junctions? We've probably all had the all too common experience of being a few cars back from the front of the queue, the lights going green, and turning red again just as we get to the junction, with only about 3 cars actually getting out of the junction.

There does often seem to be buses around when that happens.
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Suzuki · Roger Joined: 03 May 2005 Karma :

Jammy-G · Banned Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Karma :

The guy with the gun can write down your plate manually, thats enough to get you done. Sometimes they don't pull you over there and then, I'd prepare myself for a ticket tbh.
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tintin · Traffic Copper Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Karma :

I've not got much sympathy if you got caught jumping the lights, if the camera had time to falsh you then you had time to stop. What would you have done if there was a car coming out already?

I wish more of the traffic light cameras flashed a few more cars who jump the lights. The is one in Streatham I watch whilst I wait nearly everyday, cars jump the lights most cycles and I've only seen it go off a couple of times.

I was actually pleased to see a copper standing at the junction last Summer radioing numberplates up the road to where they were stopping cars that had jumped the lights. IMHO jumping the lights is potentially far, far more dangerous than speeding...
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