Can you get a letter with just a speeding gun?

wylo

Hi ,I was over the speed limit recently, only by a few km/hr but still, when i realised it I slowed down but noticed a garda car with a guard holding the gun right at where I would have been speeding.He seemed to be completey ignoring me and was focusing on where I had been driving.
I did a search in this forum and I noticed alot of talk of gatso vans? Is there a big difference? Can I still get a letter with this guy or is he just out to catch people there and then.
Other than that incident I have no worries as it was once off and was bad timing.
Any help would be really appreciated. I dont really fancy ringing the guards and saying "Hi, I was speeding do you know if I was caught or not?"

mondeo

wylo wrote: »

Hi ,I was over the speed limit recently, only by a few km/hr but still, when i realised it I slowed down but noticed a garda car with a guard holding the gun right at where I would have been speeding.He seemed to be completey ignoring me and was focusing on where I had been driving.
I did a search in this forum and I noticed alot of talk of gatso vans? Is there a big difference? Can I still get a letter with this guy or is he just out to catch people there and then.
Other than that incident I have no worries as it was once off and was bad timing.
Any help would be really appreciated. I dont really fancy ringing the guards and saying "Hi, I was speeding do you know if I was caught or not?"

If he did not stop you your safe lad, with handheld devices they stop you on spot.

rotinaj

No. You wont get a letter if it was just a guard with a gun

BoardsRanger

think you will be fine unless he had it on a tripod(the ones with the camera on it) or there was a gatzo van.

wylo

cheers for replies lads, appreciate it, yea he was just sitting in the car with the window down holding the gun out the window,
thatll be the last time, a fine and penalty points is the last thing I need.

Flyer1

If you were only a few km/h over the limit don't be too worried, most gards are actually humans, they will give you a few km/h this way or that.

They appreciate it's hard to drive exactly at the speed limit, so it's give or take a few km/h, and there are so many variables to be wrong, speedo over/under reading etc, gun inaccuricies ( which there are plenty of )

Seth Brundle

wylo wrote: »

I did a search in this forum and I noticed alot of talk of gatso vans? Is there a big difference? Can I still get a letter with this guy or is he just out to catch people there and then.

Gatso:

This camera which was burnt out in the UK. There about 20 cameras like this across Louth, Meath & Dublin but there are only about three with actual film in them at any one time - the film is allegedly rotated from time to time.
Two serve as 'ambler gambler' cameras, one on the N4 at Kilmainham and the other used to be at Donnybrook but was removed several months ago to God knows where.


Gatso Van:

The vans are unmarked and come in white (08-D-6xxxx), red, green & blue IIRC. They have blacked out rear windows with a small square cut out of the black window sticker where the camera peeps out.

Seth Brundle

Oh in relation to my first pic, this is possibly what happened to it. tsk tsk tsk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7j_RLxf34s

eringobragh

kbannon wrote: »

Gatso:



Gatso Van:

The vans are unmarked and come in white (08-D-6xxxx).

That old transit in the pic you posted is still in use on a regular basis on the M1 (in the 80k) Northbound.