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Speed van question

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    #32
    PremierDeise
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    Working Day 4- nothing yet so fingers crossed :)


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    #33
    mikeecho
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    Screenshot-20190912-234656-01.jpg

    https://ibb.co/B3ZK9xC


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    #34
    PremierDeise
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    So funnily enough just on the way home from a night shift I met into a speed van operator outside a petrol station.
    He said that to the best of his knowledge that fines are out within 2 weeks. He also said that the door being left open on the side does not mean the van is out of operation.
    It's now 2.5 weeks so fingers crossed :)


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    #35
    antodeco
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    Surely those distances cant be right? I always assumed that once you can see the van, your speed is recorded, but the camera will only work within those distances.

    IE: It picks up a car driving along over the speed limit. Radar tracks this, and then take a photo when within the expected range as above?


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    #36
    mikeecho
    Registered Users Posts: 5,047 ✭✭✭mikeecho


    antodeco wrote: »
    Surely those distances cant be right? I always assumed that once you can see the van, youre speed is recorded, but the camera will only work within those distances.

    IE: It picks up a car driving along over the speed limit. Radar tracks this, and then take a photo when within the expected range as above?

    Speed reading and photo taken at the same time.

    Those distances are correct


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    antodeco
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    Learn something new everyday. So if you are caught by a speedvan, you reaaaallllyy have poor observational skills!


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    #38
    minikin
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    Just passed one northbound on m1 just before balbriggan south exit.
    (Had cruise control set to 119)
    It was up on the Garda ramp partially hidden by bushes.
    Seemed to be more about catching people than slowly them down.
    Is there legislation or an s.i. that permits them to stop and operate on a motorway?


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    #39
    antix80
    Registered Users Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭antix80


    Despite the range of the cameras you need to be on top of the vans before they actually nab you.. so slamming the brakes is the best course of action to avoid getting caught (subject to traffic conditions)


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    #40
    mikeecho
    Registered Users Posts: 5,047 ✭✭✭mikeecho


    minikin wrote: »
    Just passed one northbound on m1 just before balbriggan south exit.
    (Had cruise control set to 119)
    It was up on the Garda ramp partially hidden by bushes.
    Seemed to be more about catching people than slowly them down.
    Is there legislation or an s.i. that permits them to stop and operate on a motorway?


    http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2004/act/44/section/27/enacted/en/html

    Exemptions for emergency vehicles.

    27.—Requirements under the Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2004 relating to vehicles and requirements, restrictions and prohibitions relating to the driving and use of vehicles, other than those provided under sections 49 and 50 (inserted by sections 10 and 11, respectively, of the Act of 1994), 51A and 52 (inserted by sections 49 and 50, respectively, of the Act of 1968) and 53 of the Principal Act and sections 12, 13, 14 and 15 of the Act of 1994, do not apply to a driver of a fire brigade vehicle, an ambulance or the use by a member of the Garda Síochána of a vehicle in the performance of the duties of that member or a person driving or using a vehicle under the direction of a member of the Garda Síochána, where such use does not endanger the safety of road users.

    GoSafe vans are acting on the direction of the Gardai


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