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    Posted: 15-October-2007 at 19:36

i was driving home south from edinburgh today and was following another car. i saw a fixed speed camera on the other side of the road facing in the direction i had came from.

i dont think the car in front or myself were travelling over the speed limit but the camera flashed twice!

could the camera have been triggered by mistake?

can a camera facing in the opposite direction catch you speeding?

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A camera facing in the opposite direction cant catch you speeding (at least I dont think it can). Has happened to me many times over the last few years.
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If there are not any of the white markings across the carriageway they have nothing to measure your distance travelled from anyway.

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Originally posted by lesurely lesurely wrote:

A camera facing in the opposite direction cant catch you speeding (at least I dont think it can). Has happened to me many times over the last few years.

Isn't this how camera vans catch the unaware speeding motorist?

They sit facing you.

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Invasion of privacy or something or other.

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Originally posted by Andrew Rolland Andrew Rolland wrote:

Originally posted by lesurely lesurely wrote:

A camera facing in the opposite direction cant catch you speeding (at least I dont think it can). Has happened to me many times over the last few years.

Isn't this how camera vans catch the unaware speeding motorist?

They sit facing you.

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Don't the forward facing vans use Laser equiped measuring devices whereas the fixed cameras, forward or rearward facing, use Radar equiped ones.

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You might be right there Sporty.

There is no flash from them right enough.  So they know they have got you without you even knowing. Boooo

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