SPECS

[Andy_Summ]

Sitting at 40 mph for mile upon mile of the M6 through Walsall and Birmingham has made me think:-

How near to the back of a large lorry / transit van / car to stop the SPECS camera reading the number plate?

On the M6 they have targetting lines on the road about 20/30 meters from the gantry. Any triginometry bods out there to crunch the numbers since the height of the gantries are pretty standard and lorry are pretty much a standard height.

P.S. I'm not volunteering to test any results!

Andy.

[mikealder]

Simple answer is to stick to the limit for the entire duration of SPECS installations, its not worth the risk.
As trucks vary in height you could never be sure that the distance would be close enough to avoid a picture, also I doubt you would find a HGV driver speeding through this sort of camera zone, they have far more to loose than the average motorist!
Finally if you were close enough to avoid the picture you should probably be prosecuted for dangerous driving as you would be way to close to the truck to safely stop if required - Mike

[Skippy]

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[Crad]

An interesting thought.

I would agree with mikealder in that it’s not worth the risk, however just for the sake of discussion;

It would be very dangerous to tail-gate a lorry, especially as at the required distance the driver would be unable to see the car! But depending on the location of the camera it should be possible to get into a position in an adjacent lane (providing the lorry is high enough) that would obscure the car’s number-plate. In addition there would not be any tailgating involved. This would only work for single cameras set to the side of the road and not over-head.

[acmp]

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