Do speed vans 'flash' when you've been caught speeding

brophs · 21-03-2012 05:32PM #1

I'm not even sure I definitely was speeding but I passed a speed van (one of the red ones with no apparent markings) a little while back and there was no flash. I'm guessing they have some new camera that don't flash, and I'm fecked.

Also, how long roughly is it before you get the letter?

Ta.

listermint · 21-03-2012 05:36PM

No,

And a few weeks, sometimes days.

djimi · 21-03-2012 05:40PM

They flash at night. They park outside my house a lot and I see go off quite a bit.

Grolschevik · 21-03-2012 05:44PM

I got caught in the daytime last year by an unmarked van that flashed. Letter in a few weeks.

brophs · 21-03-2012 05:46PM

Cheers. I'm still not sure I was speeding as I was accelerating up to get away from a car moving very quickly behind me after pulling onto the road and then braked as traffic backed up. But sod's law says that I'll be getting a letter.

-Corkie- · 21-03-2012 06:52PM

djimi wrote: »

They flash at night. They park outside my house a lot and I see go off quite a bit.

Garda robot vans flash whilst go safe vans do not.

RandomAccess · 21-03-2012 07:53PM

The GoSafe vans use an InfraRed flash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6fNXVGXwPo

Discussed [URL="The GoSafe vans use an InfraRed flash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6fNXVGXwPo

http://www.radardetector.net/forums/photo-enforcement/69749-redflex-gosafe-agd340-radar-reception-range-3.html"]here[/URL] a bit.

Miscreant · 21-03-2012 09:15PM

RandomAccess wrote: »

The GoSafe vans use an InfraRed flash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6fNXVGXwPo

Discussed [URL="The GoSafe vans use an InfraRed flash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6fNXVGXwPo

http://www.radardetector.net/forums/photo-enforcement/69749-redflex-gosafe-agd340-radar-reception-range-3.html"]here[/URL] a bit.

Sounds like this video guy is using speed detection equipment to warn him in advance of a trap.... Thought they were illegal!

OP: I have seen the vans flash alright, there is usually one parked on Cork Street in Dublin about once a week and it catches speeders all the time.

RandomAccess · 21-03-2012 10:00PM

Miscreant wrote: »

Sounds like this video guy is using speed detection equipment to warn him in advance of a trap.... Thought they were illegal!

He is and they are illegal.
I expect we will see an increased amount of people choosing to ignore/circumvent laws they see as being applied in an unjust way.
When people see others getting away with far worse white collar crimes and so on then they won't feel it is such a moral morass to cross.

But thats just how I understand why things are changing.

fayl1 · 08-07-2013 01:01PM

does it make a difference if i was doin 120-140 kph in a 100kph?? will it b a more expencive fine?

Atomic Pineapple · 08-07-2013 01:03PM

fayl1 wrote: »

does it make a difference if i was doin 120-140 kph in a 100kph?? will it b a more expencive fine?

No.

Edit: Actually a zombie thread!

OldmanMondeo · 08-07-2013 08:57PM

They flash during daylight as well. Got a smack of one right in the eyes last year. And no it wasn't me speeding.

jamesr123 · 08-07-2013 09:03PM

They usually flash to get a clearer picture of the registration.

macwal · 07-10-2013 01:14AM

RandomAccess wrote: »

The GoSafe vans use an InfraRed flash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6fNXVGXwPo

Discussed [URL="The GoSafe vans use an InfraRed flash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6fNXVGXwPo

http://www.radardetector.net/forums/photo-enforcement/69749-redflex-gosafe-agd340-radar-reception-range-3.html"]here[/URL] a bit.

I was looking at the video above, and there is a flash seen from the top left of the van. Is that an infrared light, and wouldn't been seen by the driver, but picked up only by the camera/dashcam?

ironclaw · 07-10-2013 08:56AM

macwal wrote: »

I was looking at the video above, and there is a flash seen from the top left of the van. Is that an infrared light, and wouldn't been seen by the driver, but picked up only by the camera/dashcam?

Yes its infrared and you won't see it as a driver. If you were a pedestrian and accustomed to the dark, you might see a very faint red glow.

GoSafe Vans 'flash' every car that passes. Its part of the camera system. Not necessarily an indication you were speeding.

Chris_Heilong · 07-10-2013 09:15AM

Garda Speed van there on North Wall, I take that road almost every day and never seen one there before. I didn't see it flash anyone but as others said it is infrared.

Do speed vans 'flash' when you've been caught speeding

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