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Speed vans

  • 19-11-2019 1:58pm
    #1
    Don199
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭


    Anyone with experience know how long it generally takes to get notice in the post if nabbed by a speed van?


Comments

  • #2
    easyvision
    Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭easyvision


    2-3 weeks generally, you have to be quite near them to be caught. I heard they allow you away with 2km over too


  • #3
    Don199
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭Don199


    easyvision wrote: »
    2-3 weeks generally, you have to be quite near them to be caught. I heard they allow you away with 2km over too

    10% tolerance I heard? Can they detect around bends?


  • #4
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users Posts: 7,817 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    Don199 wrote: »
    10% tolerance I heard? Can they detect around bends?

    Only if they follow you in reverse.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • #5
    flazio
    Registered Users Posts: 12,803 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    10% I think is the Gardaí with a radar gun and would be dependent on other factors such as road conditions, condition of the car, driver behaviour. I've known Gardaí to use 55 in a 50 on top of someone on their phone.


  • #6
    Don199
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭Don199


    Rows Grower wrote: »
    Only if they follow you in reverse.
    What do you mean?


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  • #7
    Don199
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭Don199


    I heard it’s only the back of the van that can detect you would that be true?


  • #8
    Johnny Sausage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 890 ✭✭✭Johnny Sausage


    Rows Grower wrote: »
    Only if they follow you in reverse.

    has to be wearing his hat too


  • #9
    Effects
    Registered Users Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭Effects


    Don199 wrote: »
    I heard it’s only the back of the van that can detect you would that be true?

    You'll be grand. Stop worrying. How the fück do you think it could detect you around a bend?


  • #10
    Don199
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭Don199


    Effects wrote: »
    You'll be grand. Stop worrying. How the fück do you think it could detect you around a bend?
    I take it they can’t catch you around bends then?😂


  • #11
    Odelay
    Registered Users Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Why are they called speed vans? I never seen them going fast.


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  • #12
    SmartinMartin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭SmartinMartin


    Only if they have the drone up. Was the drone up?


  • #13
    Don199
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭Don199


    SmartinMartin wrote: »
    Only if they have the drone up. Was the drone up?

    Presuming that was a joke


  • #14
    Don199
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭Don199


    So in other words, you need to be able to see the van to be caught?


  • #15
    dubbrin
    Registered Users Posts: 156 ✭✭dubbrin


    Don199 wrote: »
    So in other words, you need to be able to see the van to be caught?

    No, the van needs to see you. Unless you're in a speed van, and he's speeding, so he gets the ticket


  • #16
    Effects
    Registered Users Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭Effects


    The van needs to see you in a certain section of the road.
    It can't look around corners. If you spotted it and braked then you're probably fine.

    I asked a cop about the handheld guns during the summer. He let people away up to 58 in a 50 kph zone.
    He also often took a second reading, and if the driver had spotted him and slowed down then he just left it at that.
    The gun only keeps track of the last reading taken anyway.


  • #17
    Don199
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭Don199


    Effects wrote: »
    The van needs to see you in a certain section of the road.
    It can't look around corners. If you spotted it and braked then you're probably fine.

    Cheers


  • #18
    Big Wex fan
    Registered Users Posts: 351 ✭✭Big Wex fan


    I see the entire M50 going to Safety Camera location from Monday. Considering most of it is 100KM zoned, a bit like shooting fish in a barrel off peak. Will be a good earner for the Gatso crew!


  • #19
    easyvision
    Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭easyvision


    Big Wex fan wrote: »
    I see the entire M50 going to Safety Camera location from Monday. Considering most of it is 100KM zoned, a bit like shooting fish in a barrel off peak. Will be a good earner for the Gatso crew!

    The coordinates on the Garda page show the port tunnel section from the new roads pdf camera locations up to the start of the M1 so not really thr m50 per say


  • #20
    Big Wex fan
    Registered Users Posts: 351 ✭✭Big Wex fan


    Map I was looking at showed most of M50. I assume a Gatso van can park anywhere on that route that it can safely.


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