Mobile Speed Camera Van New Type??

[sdm197]

Hi All,

I have photographed a Van today which I have not seen before, I have checked the submissions page and it does not appear there either.

The camera has two large glass lenses one above the other in the centre, plus what looks like LED illuminators to each side of them. The camera is on an extending pole which comes out of the roof of the van, it can also rotate.

I will go back later to get the exact co ordinates, if this is a speed camera. I also went past with my Valentine 1 Laser/Radar dectector and was lasered twice!








SDM197

[MaFt]

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MaFt

[Andy_P]

Unfortunately you can't post pictures directly to the site, you have to post them on some webspace of your own, or a photo storage website (I use photobucket).
You can then add them to your post using the "Img" button at the top of the composition window - click on "Img" then add the url of your stored picture and then click the "Img" box again to close the code. (or if you use Photobucket, they provide a copyable "Image" link that includes all the codes already).

The admin of this site would like a maximum of 400pixels WIDE for any pictures posted
(any bigger, and the adverts fall off the side of the page )

Edit: Sorry MaFt, I saw you got there before me, but you hadn't mentioned Darren's maximum size preferences, so I bunged my post in anyway.

[sdm197]

Hi All,

Pictures now resized, the camera is Laser, as I was targeted twice as I drove towards it.

I took a good look at the camera, I parked and took the photos of the van. It looked like a fixed version of the hand held laser guns, with two large lenses one above the other (Difficult to see in the photo too much backlight)

SDM197

[MaFt]

did you knock on the door nd ask the operator

MaFt

[Skippy]

I'd love to see that van drive under a low bridge.....

Are you sure it's not ANPR? Do the IR illuminators on SPECS/Congestion Charge systems set off your Valentine?
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Gone fishing!

[sdm197]

Hi Skippy,

The ANPR's on the Roads around Birmingham do, Plus my local Tesco's has a reader as you enter the car park which sets the laser detector off too.

But having seen the Hand held Laser Guns close up before this looked like that. The ANPR's look different. Specs do not set it off at all.

The lenses between the side plates were the same as this





SDM197.

[sdm197]

Hi All,

I saw the same type van today (See Below)


he was parked in the same place, I banged on the van and spoke to the operator, he told me that this van was for enforcing the Low Emission Zone, he said the van used to enforce the congestion charge, but they had been modified for this new purpose. It has an ANPR on the top to check the number plates of vehicles this is what set my Laser detector off.

I hope that clears this up,

SDM197.

[shadamehr]

Mmm.

It then Beggars the question, do we start including in the Database.

Contentious maybe, in that as Darren once told me before, and thinking about it, I tend to agree, standard ANPR devices and locations, are NOT what this place is about.

BUT, let me put it like this...

What I DO rely on the PGPSW Database for, is keeping my licence clean - by a number of ways, promoting safer driving being one of them.

But no, why I come here is NOT Speed Cameras alone as such, but "Clean Licence" - let's all be fair, honest, and truthful - only a very rare few can claim different round here.

Once new camera van types start cropping up, that STILL carry a manner to end up adding points to my licence, I DO want to see those things included in the Database.

Bear in mind, the Editors and creators of this site, may have a personal view, but the CUSTOMER view, has to have relevance, or at least, a hearing.

So all I would say is I agree with Darren, that bog standard ANPR poles, sites, and clusters, are not for inclusion in the DB.

But any other type of enforcement van, car, or camera, SHOULD BE, as call it as you like, my purpose in coming to this site, actually reads "Clean Licence" and I for one am open and honest enough to admit it **

HOWEVER, let me close by saying, that not fully knowing what the operator means by "Enforce a Low Emission Zone", I am not SURE how this could lead to points on someone's licence, ss it may be that for that reason, once explained to me, it might not need inclusion.

But please - ENFORCEMENT DEVICES, VANS, AND SITES is what this site is all about, to me, the 'customer' if it is right to call us that (not sure it is, given the healthy Forum section etc too though).

So given that the future will likely see a lot more forms of Camera Enforcement, a blinkered view of the site, is selling it short.

And that's not to say that is the view, not at all, rest assured.

EDIT: Oh, and please, I am aware that sometime I am unfairly perceived as a trouble maker - that's not my aim, ever. But HEALTHY debate can be a good thing, if offered PROPERLY.

So please all, no Flame-proof suits on, just honest, but polite comments either way, if you feel implored, or the urge, to respond either way

[mikealder]

[shadamehr]

[mikealder]

[shadamehr]

/ Note to self: Links are shown in Red to draw key attention to them.

As such, it helps if one reads them.

Oops, sorry, and cheers Mike

[M8TJT]

The PGPSW database is called a 'Speed camera Database' NOT 'Clean Licence database. As such, and by definition, it includes Speed cameras. You know, the cash cows that others may laughingly call 'Safety Cameras'.
If you go into London, or drive a large vehicle, then ANPR cameras will seek you out.

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