On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 16:04:18 +0000, dennis@home wrote:

They raised £100,000 in fines on the A40 and A406 North Circular
Road
in the first month of operation before the signs were erected.

Shirely, before the signs are in place and correct size, location,
colours etc, the "offences" recorded by the cameras are not
enforceable? Or did people just cough up without checking the
"evidence".

As long as the speed limit signs are OK there is no requirement to make
speed traps visible.

Unless they have changed the rules again single camera "gatso" type
devices or temporary/mobile cameras have to have speed camera signage
before them at specificed distances/sizes etc dependant on road and
camera sign and speed limit sign as well. The cameras themselves are
also supposed to be visible, which means the front and back have had
hi-viz stuck on them.

This is a new form of speed camera measuring average speed. Works
fine on motorway and or similar roads with no junctions, traffic
lights etc. People just pop cruise on at the specified speed and bowl
along.

But in a section of road with a nominal 40 mph limit and a set of
traffic lights that hold you up. If your average speed across those
lights and section of road is 40 mph you *must* have been exceeding
the speed limit. But they can't prove by how much (was it 2 mph over
all the way or 20 mph over for 50yds, the penalties are very
different), when (only sometime between your entry and exit times of
the road section or where (only the road section).

There must be more to this than meets the eye, some new offence?

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Cheers
Dave.