M25 - Digital speed cameras go live!

Found this out from the plod:


From the 15th February 08 all the Speed Cameras in the Variable Speed Limit section of the M25 near Heathrow Airport (JCT 10-15) are going Digital and the activation limit is being lowered.

They are currently the older film type cameras and Set at 90mph when the Variable Limit Signs are not in operation.

The new digital cameras are going to be set at the normal 10% 0f the speed limit + 2mph (80mph + and you're taking a risk basically) when the signs are not in use i.e. national speed limit. I can't confirm the activation limit when the signs are set (variable limits showing) but believe it would be the same 10% + 2mph of the speed shown by the sign at that time.

 

[disco_steve]

It CAN vary depending on which county you get's nicked in !!

Also, a plod will take in to account how you were driving (i.e. pratt = more chance of being nicked - sensible, decent weather, road etc, just too fast = possible fix penalty)

My ex boss got away with a £60 & 3 point for doing 130 on M5, where as a guy where I work just got court summons for doing 70 (in a van on a dual carriageway) which was only 10mph over (for a van)

That's a point, does a series or defender with no windows count as a 'van' in law, so would have to stick to 60 on a dual carriageway ????

(assuming it got to 60 in the fist place )

 

[BandM]

If it's a plg on the V5, likely they will classify it as a van, unless of course you can show that it has some forward facing seats, shame if the copprs missed that when they pulled him over.
It's one that I would argue, guy in a car doing 70 wouldn't get stopped, so why should a guy driving his Def jus cos it aint got extra windows. not as though it was a frigging box luton / tranny is it?

 

[slob]

A pick-up and a stihl saw.
Reverse the pick-up up under the camera head, apply the saw, drive away.
Stop off at the local river on the way home.

ah take it yer like boiled eggs or have yer not seen 'cool hand luke'?

 

[Trewey]

ah take it yer like boiled eggs or have yer not seen 'cool hand luke'?

tis won er my favorit filums
spechully the car-washin bit.

 

[G-man]

vanishing point is better

 

[Trewey]

vanishing point is better

now yer talking!
that has to be me all time favorite (or maybe 1st equal with easyrider).

when i were a lad, they used ter regularly show both as the midnight movies at our local fleapit. must er seen em a dozen times.

 

[G-man]

I'm not old enough to have seen it in the flix but i have seen it on tv (about 2 am on channel 4) i wanna see the original gon in 60 but i cant find it all i can find is the nicolas cage one

 

[BandM]

I'm not old enough to have seen it in the flix

Yeah right

 

[G-man]

how old dya recon i am (hybrid knows the troof she cut me arm orft an counted the rings)

 

[BandM]

Well, Hybrid is Blond, so stands to reason she cant count beyond 20 if she uses all fingers and toes (guessing she HAS 20) that must mean your 21...................again

 

[BandM]

Practical Performance Car?

C'omn Gman, with your old motor

 

[G-man]

mah birfdy was 3 days before the start of the falklands war

 

[BandM]

So thats why the Argies kicked off

 

[slob]

vanishing point is better

who ate boiled eggs in that?

 

[G-man]

the bloke just outa shot in the radio studio

 

[slob]

bollocks did he.. he wur a vegan

 

[G-man]

not him the uvva one an they were pickled eggs too

 

[slob]

oh you fool!!! that wur the world champion golf ball swallower

 

[G-man]

why wuz they pickled then????

 

[slob]

ffs .. he'd bin drinking cider vinegar and it wur him wot wur pickled. jees some folk