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Speed camera near Penny Hill??

  • 16-05-2009 4:18pm
    #1
    Doyle_G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭


    Driving past Penny Hill pub today about 3pmish only to find a white van parked up on the side of the road by a bus stop. White van with black roof rack on top of it... Could this be a Gatso?? Was doing about 60 in a 50 zone. none of the cars on front of me where suddenly slowing down so if anyone else seen it, plz gimme your thoughts!!! the van looked pretty well kept to be a cop van. the back windows where blacked put but there was no normal "square" in the black tint where the camera would normally be....

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  • #2
    GerardKeating
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,804 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    Doyle_G wrote: »
    Driving past Penny Hill pub today about 3pmish only to find a white van parked up on the side of the road by a bus stop. White van with black roof rack on top of it... Could this be a Gatso?? Was doing about 60 in a 50 zone. none of the cars on front of me where suddenly slowing down so if anyone else seen it, plz gimme your thoughts!!! the van looked pretty well kept to be a cop van. the back windows where blacked put but there was no normal "square" in the black tint where the camera would normally be....

    smile.gif g x

    None of the Gatso vans currently have roof racks.


  • #3
    ciarsd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭ciarsd


    Thats the usual parking spot for a Gatso along that road, but your description of the van is a bit different to the look of a Gatso.


  • #4
    Drax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Drax


    Yep I am wondering the exact same thing! Passed around 4pm. Couldnt see the camera but it could be one of the new vans. Sneaky place too - Fish in a barrel. I though the new vans were supposed to have camera symbols on them to indicate they are Gatsos?


  • #5
    Doyle_G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭Doyle_G


    I drive that road nearly everyday and I've only ever seen cops with the hand held speed cameras... Maybe i'm jumping to conclusions! but it did look rather dodgy... damn!!!


  • #6
    ciarsd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭ciarsd


    Doyle_G wrote: »
    I drive that road nearly everyday and I've only ever seen cops with the hand held speed cameras... Maybe i'm jumping to conclusions! but it did look rather dodgy... damn!!!

    I drive it about 3/4 times per week in both directions and I see the Gatso more so than a Garda with a handheld device in that area.

    Further up towards Grangecastle, the common speed check method I've experienced, is a Garda hiding behind some low down road signage with his hand held device (at the crossroads with Clondalkin and Baldonnel/Newcastle turn off's).


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