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Cameras at the border?

  • 04-05-2013 2:27pm
    #1
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭


    Hey guys, so I was going back from Belfast today on the N1, and well... I was speeding (I was doing 130kph on the 120kph stretch according to my speedo) - just after the border I noticed a set of cameras so I pretty much slammed on the brakes, but I think I saw a flash... Are those safety cameras or am I just paranoid? (It was a long day, and it was so frustrating to drive on the NI roads - they don't say what the speed limit is at all!!!)


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  • #2
    ABajaninCork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,411 ✭✭✭ABajaninCork


    Speed limit in the UK is 70mph (110kph). Did the camera flash once or twice? If once, you're probably OK. Twice? I'm afraid it's a nick...


  • #3
    corktina
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    they do....by default the speed limit in a car is 60 (or 70 on a dual carrigeway/motorway,) indicated by a white circle with a black bar through it


  • #4
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Sobanek wrote: »
    Hey guys, so I was going back from Belfast today on the N1, and well... I was speeding (I was doing 130kph on the 120kph stretch according to my speedo) - just after the border I noticed a set of cameras so I pretty much slammed on the brakes, but I think I saw a flash... Are those safety cameras or am I just paranoid? (It was a long day, and it was so frustrating to drive on the NI roads - they don't say what the speed limit is at all!!!)

    You most likely saw the ITs cameras and the flash would've probably been the sun. It's a nice day up here. The only static camera near there is at Dunleer a good trek from the border.

    The its system reads your reg and provides the average travel time down the m1 and displays the results on to those overhead screens along the motorway. The information is then ditched and not given to any other authority.


  • #5
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    It was on the Irish side guys! (120kph limit)


  • #6
    Zcott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,206 ✭✭✭Zcott


    Yep, definitely not speed cams.

    Thankfully.


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  • #7
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Take her handy too. Been up and down a fair bit this week and they're watching the road heavily on both sides. PSNI had a few checks during the week and the Traffic Corps car was sitting watching southbound traffic last night when I was going to Newry around 8pm and were still on that stretch around 12 when I was on my way back.


  • #8
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    MugMugs wrote: »
    Take her handy too. Been up and down a fair bit this week and they're watching the road heavily on both sides. PSNI had a few checks during the week and the Traffic Corps car was sitting watching southbound traffic last night when I was going to Newry around 8pm and were still on that stretch around 12 when I was on my way back.

    It's funny, because on my 4 hour journey through Newry and Belfast and the M1, I haven't seen a single police/garda car :D


  • #9
    Zcott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,206 ✭✭✭Zcott


    Saw the guards sitting on their perch in a marked Mondeo on Wednesday. Think yer man was just having a break because he didn't have his hair dryer out.


  • #10
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,761 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    There's a set of cameras on the border itself recording cars entering the leaving, think the PSNI just have them as a reference if they need to check if a vehicle has passed.

    The other cameras they have are on yellow gantries, they are average speed cameras, they record your average speed between two points, if the average is over the speed limit you get a ticket even if your going below the limit passing each camera.


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