speed camera question

pbody1985

Hey all ,

quick question , was driving to work this morning on the M1 soutbound , there was a garda car on top of one of the bridges with handheld gun , do they clock you for speeding? or do they have to come after you ? i heard about those gatso vans but it was just a lone garda and the guard had the gun on top on the car ..what u reckon just checking speed or do they issue fines ? just question .. thanks

cushtac

Some guns have cameras & connect to printers and can operate like the gatso vans. If they were on top of the bridge its likely they were operating as such.

pa990

i'm all for information about speed enforcement equipment and operations being make public, however it is generally kept quiet, and members on this forum keep quiet about the operational limits etc of such equipment, and generally queries about such are locked soon after being posted.

Anyway.. If u keep within the law (ie speed limits) you have nothing to be worried about.
If u disreguard such laws, you have noone to blame but yourself when a letter arrives thru the door with points and a fine

Ian Beale

pa990 wrote: »

i'm all for information about speed enforcement equipment and operations being make public, however it is generally kept quiet, and members on this forum keep quiet about the operational limits etc of such equipment, and generally queries about such are locked soon after being posted.

Anyway.. If u keep within the law (ie speed limits) you have nothing to be worried about.
If u disreguard such laws, you have noone to blame but yourself when a letter arrives thru the door with points and a fine

It's in the public domain, http://garda.ie/Controller.aspx?Page=1726&Lang=1

pa990

Ian Beale wrote: »

It's in the public domain, http://garda.ie/Controller.aspx?Page=1726&Lang=1

Not the in's and out's

Such as specific questions about operational limits of equipment

Ian Beale

pa990 wrote: »

Not the in's and out's

Such as specific questions about operational limits of equipment

Answering a question about whether or not the Gardaí have to chase you or can they do a print off is hardly a huge secret, the lads over on the motors forum complain enough every week about that tactic:D and NGA thanked a post containing the answer, if he thought the question shouldn't be answered this thread would have been gone hours ago.

pa990

what i'm talking about is someone asking about the operational limitations of equipment etc..
Not necessarly procedure.

A thread was closed recently that asked about the range of the new speed cam vans, thats the type of thing i was referring to.

Shield

By "recently" do you mean this year?

pa990

psni wrote: »

By "recently" do you mean this year?

Past few months.. Dunno if it was late 09 or early 10

Shield

Only one I could find was this but it wasn't asking about range.

Anyway, the OP's question has been answered by a serving Garda in good standing on this forum, so we can now close this one off too.