UK & Northern Ireland Speed cameras

dozy doctor

Hi Lads and Lassies,

Anyone ever been done by a speed camera whilst driving in Northern Ireland or in the UK... or do i need to worry only about the traffic police in relation to it?

All advice is muchly appreciated...

DD

HamSambo

Was goin along though Camden in London a while ago in an artic. It was around 3am and I was doing around 55 in a 30. Out of nowhere the street lit up like there was a lightning storm i was like 'wtf!?'
Speed cameras.

Heard nothing since

Thats my 2 cents...

Victor

There are 6,000 speed cameras in Britain - compare that to 60 Go-Safe cameras and 100+ Garda cameras on about 3.5 times the road network, so you are about 11 times more likely to come across a speed camera in Britain than here.

HamSambo

Victor wrote: »

There are 6,000 speed cameras in Britain - compare that to 60 Go-Safe cameras and 100+ Garda cameras on about 3.5 times the road network, so you are about 11 times more likely to come across a speed camera in Britain than here.

There are NO flies on you Sir

dozy doctor

Victor wrote: »

There are 6,000 speed cameras in Britain - compare that to 60 Go-Safe cameras and 100+ Garda cameras on about 3.5 times the road network, so you are about 11 times more likely to come across a speed camera in Britain than here.

Thanks for the reply....I figured that out already..

But what I was looking for was, do they follow your reg to the republic to issue you with a speeding fine, or do they simply ignore it as it would cost yto much to chase it up on?

Del2005

dozy doctor wrote: »

But what I was looking for was, do they follow your reg to the republic to issue you with a speeding fine, or do they simply ignore it as it would cost yto much to chase it up on?

AFAIK they can't do a foreign reg vehicle on the cameras, yet. They are working on sharing details and it's supposed to have be coming shortly, but they've been saying that for a good while now.

Notch000

Del2005 wrote: »

AFAIK they can't do a foreign reg vehicle on the cameras, yet. They are working on sharing details and it's supposed to have be coming shortly, but they've been saying that for a good while now.

i read on the bbc lately that there is a shared resource for chasing cross european fines & tickets but at the moment GB, Ireland and /Belgium arent in it, on our case its probably due to lack of resources that is probably a good thing for a change

Victor

dozy doctor wrote: »

Thanks for the reply....I figured that out already..

But what I was looking for was, do they follow your reg to the republic to issue you with a speeding fine, or do they simply ignore it as it would cost yto much to chase it up on?

If caught by the police and they can't summons you, they may arrest you and release you on a bail higher than the expected fine.

dozy doctor

Victor wrote: »

If caught by the police and they can't summons you, they may arrest you and release you on a bail higher than the expected fine.

Thanks for the response....

I don't really speed, generally +5 or +10. It was more of a "What If" question, but it is also good to know....

Cheers

LordSutch

dozy doctor wrote: »

Hi Lads and Lassies,

Anyone ever been done by a speed camera whilst driving in Northern Ireland or in the UK... or do i need to worry only about the traffic police in relation to it?

The bit marked in BOLD is what's called a contradiction in terms.

Speed cameras in the UK. Doesn't matter what part of the UK you are biking in . . .

BKtje

LordSutch wrote: »

The bit marked in BOLD is what's called a contradiction in terms.

Speed cameras in the UK. Doesn't matter what part of the UK you are biking in . . .

Northern ireland in this case is actually a superfluous term(if I recall correctly from school). A contradiction would be saying that the North has no speed cameras but that all the UK does, i.e. both can't be true. Anyway, not really important

Interceptor

My flipping tax disc holder keeps falling down over my number plate no matter how tightly I do up the piece of string holding it. It must be a pure nuisance for the speed camera lads.

'c

Del2005

Interceptor wrote: »

My flipping tax disc holder keeps falling down over my number plate no matter how tightly I do up the piece of string holding it. It must be a pure nuisance for the speed camera lads.

'c

A bike cop was following me out the N81 one day. I got stopped at the lights for Killinarden and he stopped at the back of my bike was leaning over. He then pulled up beside me and kindly informed me that my tax disc was partially blocking my reg and he'd fixed it for me, I was shocked as like you it's on as tight as I could get it!