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Caught speeding, but was it 74.4mph or 106mph

Hiawog · 2012-03-27 21:44:46

Firstly, there seems to be little to doubt, I was speeding. The essential question here is: Are Garda speed guns equipped to measure the angle of a cars trajectory to their static position and compensate in order to give an accurate reading of speed? The photograph sent to me on the fine sheet shows the car at an angle of…

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#32 01-04-2012 09:19PM

Hiawog

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Would you believe, I posted the question and went off and completely forgot about it. As I tell everybody, 'I have a memory like a....ehmm....ehh....what's that thing called again?'

I think I'll buy the book on download and read it. I would not be so worried about making a challenge, I've made three in my life. The first was for breaking a red light, the Garda was actually jay-walking. The second was for parking, I was actually on private property and the third was for receiving a fine for a charge not mentioned to me by the Garda. He was a bully who spent twenty minutes with me trying to elicit an apology and then he didn't turn up in court. The judge told me I'd have to return to appear again before him and that very rarely happens. He was a heavy finer against challenges, up to €600 to some people, so I paid the €80 and wasn't called back.

The suggestions that the photo is taken after you are checked for speed seems unlikely unless the law specifies that no photo of the car speeding is needed or indeed if another photo is taken while the car is speeding. With a static camera, there is no witness to say the car identified from the photo is the same car that was speeding at a different time earlier.

As for the science and trigonometry of the situation, I'll need to study it more. There is one point though, I have been informed that I was doing 120KPH in an 80KPH zone. I am not admitting to that nor am I admittting to speeding. What I am saying is that if no 'Cosine Error Geometry' correction technology exists and if the angle is greater than 45 degrees, then my corrected speed would be approximately 80KPH.

I would like not to have to pay only beacause I'm currently a 'jobseeker' and €80 is a real kicking financially but I'm actually pursuing this more out of curiosity than anything else.

Best Regards.

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