Mobile frikin Speed vans!!!!!!!! ;(

[Guest]

Well last night 18th driving from home (Alyth) to aberdeen left at midnight.

Get onto A90 at forfar about 1.20 and as expected no traffic so i put my foot down a bit further than normal

as i know exactly where all the camers are and thinking sunday night 12.30 their will be no police about at this time

so getting on fine sitting between the about 85-90 most of the way up untill i got a bit excited and hit ###ish

then all of a sudden police van sitting 90 degrees to the road camera out the window. Worst thing is was parrallel with them before i even noticed.

was caught by one of these thing before but in daylight and passed the van and saw no flash so wondering how they would get the plate as no light to see it?

also what do i expect if 100+ giving the time and lack of cars?

the road was dry passed 3 cars in 40 min

Worst thing what was i driving

a pug 306 1.9 diesel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[johns]

100+ would be an instant ban of at least a month, and a hefty fine to go with it

There's probably enough ambient light from streetlights etc for the car reg to appear clearly on the photograph. Even the cheapest of camcorders these days have a night setting which allows you to film in very poor light conditions.

[~ ~ Cal ~~]

I saw the scameravan @ the Cove fly over catchin' all the Celtic fans coming up ( about midday )

Was it in the same location ?

The same thing happened to me in N.Ireland this summer except i was overtaking a learner at the time.

This road had a climbing lane so i pulled out to overtake the learner before the climbing lane finished.

The road was a 60 mph and just as I pulled past the learner doing about 68mph I clocked a white van.

I had been cruising all day despite the kaleidoscope of twisties en route.....

I instantly got on the brakes and cruised by to discover that it was indeed the old bill. So rather than drive

on i went about a mile back down the road and got my girlfriend to film ( with a camcorder) me going bang on 60 mph from the passengers seat. That way if i had to contest any bullsmit at least i could show that the conditions were favourable. It also gave me a chance to recreate the sitation and suss out if i had been nailed. i should have added that this was the first day of a 7

day holiday so it put me on a bit of a downer.

In then end i got so hacked off thinking about it & it was ruinging my hols ( I already have 9 point for 3 bog standard motorway SP30's so would have been facing a potential 6 month ban ) that I phoned up the cops and asked them if I'd been caught.

I hadn't been caught but i was miserable for ages prior to calling them .............so my advice is call em' up. If you've been knabbed at least you don't have to

wait 14 days ( if your lucky). In anycase - it may not have been manned at the time.

I passed a talivan one day just before the south deeside road and went back again to test my road angel laser detector ( which i normally dont bother using).The laser detector worked as i strolled passed em' at 20 mph. They gimps in the back of the van were both lying down horizontal catching some rays ! It might just be your luck that they were cacthing 40 winks last night ??

So put yourself outta misery and call em' up !!!!!!!!!!!!

CLICKY for officer dibbles tali-phone number ( assuming you weren't within the Tayside cops reach ?)

Phew .......that's me done.....good luck !

Cal

[Guest]

Well all can say is their were no street lights where they were but doubt if the would be sitting their if they could not see the

plate do u!!

Lets just hope they were having 40 winks.

Cal not sure exactly where it was as was half asleep when i got caught but think it was in the tayside jurastiction.

At least this way il have shared £120 worth of fines between tayside and grampian police!

How would i go about checking if iv been caught just phone up and ask?

[~ ~ Cal ~~]

yeah - see the link above for Aberdeen john-dolis.

Here for Dundee cops

Tayside Safety Camera Partnership

TSCP Office

Podium Block

Crichton Street

Dundee

DD1 3RD

t: 01382 596363

e: safetayside@tayside.pnn.police.uk

Suppose you'll need to phone em both - suppose it also could have been just a utility company van ?

Some of the really look like Talivans these days !

[Guest]

lets hope so min as 6 points is a bit of killer considering im only 21 aswell!

[wrxmania]

Did you give them a phone Ciaran?

Brian

[Guest]

never got round to it mate.

will just leave it should be due any day soon if it's going to come.

although may phone cos im starting to get depressed!

[~ ~ Cal ~~]

These days they tend come to in about 5 days after capture so maybe you're in the clear

[Guest]

got the last one after 9 so maybe not yet but heres hoping!