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Speed vans motorways

  • 04-10-2018 8:15am
    #1
    2015LC1
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  • #2
    Alanstrainor
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    2015LC1 wrote: »
    Hi I am new to driving on Motorways and stay within the limit but for example if you did over 120 on a motorway and there was a speed van parked in the opposite side of the motorways with a central median like on the M9 or M8, would you be caught for speeding?

    What other methods for detecting speed are there?

    I am just curious to know! I don’t plan on being over the limit

    No, the speed van would only be detecting on the side it is on. It has no means of seeing traffic on the other side of the road.

    A garda with a speed gun is about the only other way. I suppose if a Garda drove up behind you and you were well above the limit they could probably do you for it given their car would be over too... Not too sure on that.


  • #3
    Del2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,102 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    No, the speed van would only be detecting on the side it is on. It has no means of seeing traffic on the other side of the road.

    A garda with a speed gun is about the only other way. I suppose if a Garda drove up behind you and you were well above the limit they could probably do you for it given their car would be over too... Not too sure on that.

    You can be convicted on the word of a Garda that you were speeding. Not that the other methods are much better since there's no requirement for them to be accurate.


  • #4
    2015LC1
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