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jc_150 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 12

Hi all in the forum.
Can a Gatso camera snap you from the opposite direction? I was some 400 yds from a camera on my side of the road so the camera was in front of me, as i approached it knowing it was there i saw it flash before i reached it and it was a straight piece of road at night and no cars in front of me for as far as the eye could see on my side. Just after the camera flashed a car approached on the opposite side of the road coming towards me. Could that Gatso have flashed an oncoming car on the opposite side of the road?
thanks for answers in advance
John Calleja

Johnny_D · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:02 pm Post subject:

First off - Are you it was a Gasto and not a Truvello?

Gatso Tend to snap from the rear-end
Truvello Tend to snap from the front-end.

So with a Truvello you get a piccie of the driver.
They are not too dissimilar in looks.

JD
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mikealder · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:18 pm Post subject:

Border_Collie · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:24 pm Post subject:

Not far from me there is a stretch of 40 mph duel-carriageway (2 lanes each side). Recently I was overtaken by a car, which must have been doing 50 plus and the Gatso, which is on the other side of the road, flashed.

Had anyone been driving in the opposite direction, at 40mph or less, would have got a shock. :P

Along the same stretch there is another sited in the centre, which can, and often is, switched from one direction to the other. Sad

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mikealder · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:27 pm Post subject:

Johnny_D · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:35 pm Post subject:

Border_Collie · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:50 pm Post subject:

PaulB2005 · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:19 pm Post subject:

GATSO can only photo legally from behind and uses a white flash.

http://www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk/gatso01.htm

Truevelo photos from the front and uses an Infra-Red flash.

http://www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk/gatso09.htm

Border_Collie · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:28 pm Post subject:

Oldboy · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:38 pm Post subject:

jc_150 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 12

Thanks for all the replies. This was definitely a Gatso and it flashed like a flash camera twice as i approached it. so recon it was a Gats which flashed on a reflection. Interesting replies, thanks
John Calleja

PaulB2005 · Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:13 am Post subject:

PaulB2005 · Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:14 am Post subject:

Also most motorcycles don't have a front license plate so that means the rider AND vehicle would have to be identified solely on the part of the face you can see (part of the nose and eyes) which isn't nearly as easy as having the license plate in shot.

nej · Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:38 am Post subject:

Gatso's can definately be triggered by a vehicle going the other way.

Many, many years ago some friends and I discovered a camera that we could set off by driving past it with our wheels on the white line in the middle of the road.

Obviously I've grown up a bit in the intervening ten years, but it was a stupid camera (placed in the dip between two hills where you are likely to be going a bit over the limit on the way down in order to maintain speed going up the steep slope again) and it was nice to know we were wasting the film. 8) They've since made that bit of road even more stupid by changing the speed limit between 20mph and 30mph about 4 times in the space of a couple of hundred yards.

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