Do you see what I see?

Fey!

A mod might imbed these pics, as I can't!!!

Beautifully disguised at the end of the row of sales cars is a rather crafty speedtrap. It was toward the end of a 3/4 mile straight stretch where people tend to go well over the limit.

It also overlooks the site of a terrible crash 14 years ago where 2 people died and 5 or 6 people were injured in a single car collision on Easter Sunday.

I just felt that the thought gone into hiding this trap deserved to be noted!!!

Captain Slow IRL

I was looking in the bushes for a camera!

Do they have the camera mounted on the dash?!

MargeS

aren't they great! :rolleyes:

chris85

land9 wrote: »

I was looking in the bushes for a camera!

Do they have the camera mounted on the dash?!

I think it is the mondeo at the end of the row of cars. There seems to be a copper in in from the third picture

Fey!

Indeed, it is the Mondeo sitting at the end of the row with the 2 gardai sitting in it.

With all of the deaths on the Galway roads in the last couple of weeks, I'm quite happy to see them out and about. If people know that the traps aren't going to be easy to see, then it might slow people down a bit.

Captain Slow IRL

Ya, I only copped when I seen the 3 antennaes on the roof!

JoeA3

Is that in Galway, specifically the Turloughmore/Lackagh area?

Fey!

JoeA3 wrote: »

Is that in Galway, specifically the Turloughmore/Lackagh area?

It is indeed. It's just past the turn for Ballinvoher. You sometimes see them outside the church in Lackagh (a 50kph area due to the school, church, shops, and housing, that a lot of people ignore), or in Turloughmore (60kph, village on a long bend which, again, a lot of people ignore).

Atomic Pineapple

Fey! wrote: »

If people know that the traps aren't going to be easy to see, then it might slow people down a bit.

I disagree, speed trap technology means that a speeding car will be caught long before they spot a garda in a hi visibilty jacket.

So I reckon a large noticable speed check would put off more people from speeding as they will be aware of the garda presence whereas the only people that speed check is goin to make slow down is the people that get caught

ergonomics

Came down a slip road on the Cashel by-pass the other day and half way down it was a Garda car doing speed checks. They were far back enough that you couldn't see them unless you looked in your rearview mirror just as you went past. Thought that was very smart!

GTC

ergonomics wrote: »

Came down a slip road on the Cashel by-pass the other day and half way down it was a Garda car doing speed checks. They were far back enough that you couldn't see them unless you looked in your rearview mirror just as you went past. Thought that was very smart!

They aren't holding a speed laser-gun, looks like they're taking a break.

Or possibly, on the lookout for a reported stolen car/dangerous driver/drunk driver etc.

Still, I suppose its a bit sneaky

deegs

maybe they are just having lunch

D_murph

ergonomics wrote: »

Came down a slip road on the Cashel by-pass the other day and half way down it was a Garda car doing speed checks. They were far back enough that you couldn't see them unless you looked in your rearview mirror just as you went past. Thought that was very smart!

they do that a lot down here in Cork as well. i saw them nab a car that overtook me a few weeks ago. as i passed by the end of the slip road i saw the squad car up there and knew the guy was toast.

they caught one guy after a short chase to catch up with him and while this was happening how many people saw that they were speed checking on that road? a few at most but if they were in a highly visible spot where everyone that passed would see them, they would cause a lot more awareness IMO but of course its not about safety when tactics like this are employed :rolleyes: theres 2 that spring to mind though.

1. revenue generation.

2. filling of speeding fine quotas

one thing is for sure though, theyre not up there for the view

Hotwheels

They are there on a regular basis, they get you coming down the hill past the Sawmill. I've seen a good few people getting caught there.
Mind you they are usually there very early in the morning, and parked further in at Duffy's...
yep and the crash happend just a few yards from that spot..its a dangerous stretch of road that...

ohh ya they also park behind the wall at the pub in Turloughmore and get you as you enter the village, you'd go past and not see as the wall is high..

Alun

ergonomics wrote: »

Came down a slip road on the Cashel by-pass the other day and half way down it was a Garda car doing speed checks. They were far back enough that you couldn't see them unless you looked in your rearview mirror just as you went past. Thought that was very smart!

TBH parking on a slip road, unless there was a dedicated place for them to park off to the side of it, doesn't sound very 'smart' to me.