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ccsnet
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 Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:50 am Post subject: M5 Speed cameras - Are These Ones In The DB |
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Sounds like a bit of advertising but tbh I thought I'd post it here so some one can check and put it in the DB if needs be. I have no idea of the GPS location as I go no where near there my self but you never know.
Terran
| Quote: | M5 Speed cameras
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Got this email t'other day. May be usefull to know if your planning hols down south.
New SPECS Speed Cameras which were introduced just before
Christmas on the M5 are going 'live' today.
They are positioned between Junctions 29 and 31.
The first cameras read your number plate and if you arrive at
the next camera too quickly you will get a £60.00 fine and 3
points on your licence (or worse if you are going over an
un-disclosed threshold speed).
They do not use film, and so you will not see a flash and
prosecutions are electronically produced because there will
be so many of them that it would require too many people
to process them manually...
And get this...
...there are no warning signs up, and although warning signs
are in the Home Office guidelines their absence will NOT
constitute a defence!
The cameras are installed between M5 J29 Exeter
(Honiton Road) and M5 J31 (A30 interchange)'
If you own a BTST Locator, then I strongly suggest you
update it now before the cameras go live.
If not, then you can grab your own Locator at:
http://www.speedcameralocator.com/promo/ |
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MaFt
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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| you wouldn't know how many people have 'submitted' this email... |
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Privateer
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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I can confrim that the Specs cameras are there on the M5 and also that the cameras are already in the PocketGPSWorld camera database. 
I drove that part of the M5 on Saturday 6th January 2007.
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PaulB2005
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | And get this...
...there are no warning signs up, and although warning signs
are in the Home Office guidelines their absence will NOT
constitute a defence! |
Can we assume this is BS?? |
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Skippy
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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| PaulB2005 wrote: | | Quote: | And get this...
...there are no warning signs up, and although warning signs
are in the Home Office guidelines their absence will NOT
constitute a defence! |
Can we assume this is BS?? |
Which part of it? I don't know if they have signs up or not, but it is true that they are NOT legally required to warn you that you are in a speed camera area. You would be laughed out of court if you tried to claim that the prosecution was invalid because there were no signs.
Not all cameras have to be yellow either, the SPECS ones on Tower Bridge aren't because the money collected doesn't go to a speed camera partnership.
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ccsnet
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Don't forget the law about what they can or can't do with these cameras changed this year ( March I think )...
May be this is an ideal topic for a front page article ?
Terran
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