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M6 Motorway - WFT is going on with Speed Cameras?????

There once was a Police Inspector in a small town in Northumberland. Not a popular man.

He drove a silver Ford Escort (this was quite some time ago and the town had one of the early Gatso's)
Somebody in the down aquired an identical model and colour Escort and copied the Inspectors number plates.

Sadly, on its fourth trip past the Gatso at considerable speed in several weeks the Inspector was at Plod HQ in his car attending a meeting the with the Assistant Chief Constable. Properly alibi'd up

One local scallywag almost pulled it off and got the local station Inspector banned.

Pukka story, it genuinely happened.
I once read of a couple of likely lads keeping a scamera van operator busy whilst a third covertly removed the front number plate. They then fastened it to their own vehicle and blatted past said scamera van at Mach 1 several times. :D
 
The more modern ones are mounted on the nearside gantry leg as you describe and are quite noticeable but only by day.

Older ones are mounted over each lane, those tend to not be painted yellow and are on the back of the gantry structure, so a bit tricky to spot.

Wack the cruise control on and the jobs a good 'un.
One of the things I've noticed is that if there is a speed camera on the gantry on the opposite carrigeway, there will be one on the side I'm on. This applies to the older ones over each lane and the newer ones on the uprights.

The other thing is that average speed cameras all appear to either not work or be the 'TV Detector van' of speeding, I got a SP30 once for going over the limit in an average speed camera area - it was from a traditional speed camera van on a parallel road.
 
One of the things I've noticed is that if there is a speed camera on the gantry on the opposite carrigeway, there will be one on the side I'm on. This applies to the older ones over each lane and the newer ones on the uprights.

The other thing is that average speed cameras all appear to either not work or be the 'TV Detector van' of speeding, I got a SP30 once for going over the limit in an average speed camera area - it was from a traditional speed camera van on a parallel road.
Expert?
 
Just got a notice for speeding on the A30 at Okehampton . Doing 71mph in a 70 zone. WTF
Forgot that my VWT5 is a van and as such is limited to 60. Bugger.
 
Just got a notice for speeding on the A30 at Okehampton . Doing 71mph in a 70 zone. WTF
Forgot that my VWT5 is a van and as such is limited to 60. Bugger.

Registered as a van or camper?
If a van its 60mph, if its a camper under 3.05 tonnes the it falls under car speed limits.
 
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