Speed trap van on m50

vintagecosmos

Hi All,

Not sure if this was posted before. But for the first time I saw a speed camera van on the M50. Going Northbound just after the Cherrywood on ramp.

I have never seen one on the M50 since they got rid of the old cameras years ago. A lot of cars jamming breaks at it and nearly causing an accident at 8am this morning.

Has anyone seen others? Speeding is illegal, but I felt this van was causing a safety issue with the congestion of morning traffic, located on a bend and near a major merge section with Cherrywood/N11.

What do you think?

VC

Charles Babbage

What on earth is the point of speeding at 8am on a workday?

markc1184

There's been one on the M1 a couple times a week for the last few weeks. Same as you mention with cars jamming on, just before a junction notorious for rush hour accidents which is probably the reason for the van.

biko

Charles Babbage wrote: »

What on earth is the point of speeding at 8am on a workday?

Is that incalculable for you, Mr Babbage?

vintagecosmos

markc1184 wrote: »

There's been one on the M1 a couple times a week for the last few weeks. Same as you mention with cars jamming on, just before a junction notorious for rush hour accidents which is probably the reason for the van.

Do you think anyone would ever make a case ( and win ) that the speed van contributed to an accident? I have seen more mad things in the courts than that.

I heard somewhere a few years ago, possibly Scandinavia, that if a stretch of road is designated a black spot for accidents any further incidents are the fault of the council which puts the onus on them to redesign the road or face penalties.

livingthedream

Yeah I saw that van there alright. I don't recall seeing one there before.

I hope they were there to reward anyone for actually managing to get up to a decent speed during rush hour!!

I also don't recall too many/ any accidents there which I thought was supposed to be the trigger for locating a van in a particular location??

~LTD.

doolox

...120kph. Not 100kph like a lot of people THINK it is. You could be doing 120kph there and at jct 15 and the Bray jct until the M11 becomes the N11.

You will note that there is only ONE 120kph sign at the end of jct 14 Stillorgan in comparison to the multitude of 100kph reminder signs on the rest of the M50. It is as if the powers that be don't want the motorist to know about the 120kph limit from Jct 14 to Bray but can't help reminding the motorists about the 100kph limit on the rest of the m50.

CeilingFly

doolox wrote: »

...120kph. Not 100kph like a lot of people THINK it is. You could be doing 120kph there and at jct 15 and the Bray jct until the M11 becomes the N11.

You will note that there is only ONE 120kph sign at the end of jct 14 Stillorgan in comparison to the multitude of 100kph reminder signs on the rest of the M50. It is as if the powers that be don't want the motorist to know about the 120kph limit from Jct 14 to Bray but can't help reminding the motorists about the 100kph limit on the rest of the m50.

Its the opposite.

there are plenty of 100kmh signs to make absolutely sure that no driver can say they didn't know of the reduced limit as the "standard" speed limit for a motorway is 120kmh.

On the M7 there are no signs except when you are joining the road from a junction.