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Sims

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9th Jun 04 at 15:16

was on my way to a University placement assement in Swindon. On my way got caught in traffic going through Bath. When i got onto the M4 i basically stayed at the same speed as everyone else to get there on time at 9am.

I was doing about 80ish when i noticed on a bridge a plain white van with what looked to be a camera setup on a tripod watching wither side of the motorway. So i put me put on my brakes after checking my rear mirror to drop down to 70.

Not sure if i did so in time. I know alot of you will say you shouldn't have been speeding blah blah blah. Its very rarely i do. Just wondering if anyone knows if it was a speed camera or jsut a traffic monitoring device.

There was plenty of cars in front of me going quicker than what i was. i hope it won't a camera

MattyB

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9th Jun 04 at 15:18

You'd have to have been doin around 85 on ur clocks to have been done.

If you were doin the same speed as everyone else, then i wouldnt worry.

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Ojc

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9th Jun 04 at 15:20

Speed cameras on the M4? Where about was this?

Sims

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9th Jun 04 at 15:20

i don't think i was doing 85. when ever i checked my speedo it was roughly 80 and it was sorta up hill. i really am bricking it

MatthewR

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9th Jun 04 at 15:21

why?

Sims

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9th Jun 04 at 15:22

between Junction 17 and 16 ojc mate. go steady if your goin past.

Evisu insurance and the increased risk of loosing my liscense. although most of the time i am a very safe driver

[Edited on 09-06-2004 by Sims]

3CorsaMeal

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9th Jun 04 at 15:23

nice one, any pics?

Sims

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9th Jun 04 at 15:25

i thought about getting pics on the way home with my mobile camera. But its very dodgey and i would have probably crashed.

Basically it was a very small thing ontop a tripod. look more like one of those engineer things they use for finding angles on a site.

blebo

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9th Jun 04 at 15:28

Could have been the DVLA camera

langey

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9th Jun 04 at 15:29

i was briking it when i was doing between 115 and 120mpg on the motorway and i seen a car on the bridge too. lol

noit herad nowt yet so touch wood, i'm ok

3CorsaMeal

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9th Jun 04 at 15:34

quote:
Originally posted by langey
i was briking it when i was doing between 115 and 120mpg

that very economical.

Sims

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9th Jun 04 at 15:35

ahh could be a dvla one. do they catch people speeding? anyway i'm off to the gym now. cya

Paul H

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9th Jun 04 at 15:36

should be ok if you was doing 80 depending on the coppers most let you have 10% + 3mph so 80 aint that bad

Sims

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9th Jun 04 at 15:38

hopefully they were being nice. It was jam packed as well so they would have been raking it in. anyway thanks, off out cya

Red_SXi

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9th Jun 04 at 15:42

quote:
Originally posted by 3CorsaMeal
nice one, any pics?

ljames555

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9th Jun 04 at 15:46

quote:
Originally posted by 3CorsaMeal

quote:
Originally posted by langey
i was briking it when i was doing between 115 and 120mpg

that very economical.

Rob

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9th Jun 04 at 16:33

were they displaying the speed traps sign?

Sims

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9th Jun 04 at 17:28

no rob no speed trap signs anywhere and nothing on the van

Rob_Quads

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9th Jun 04 at 18:17

@ 80 the chances of getting caught are very slim. You were probably only doing a real world 75 odd

Tom J

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9th Jun 04 at 18:18

i seen one of these on the M1 the other day, unmarked van and a camera on a tripod. i have seen the vans for catching people without tax discs tho so could be one of them

Sims

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10th Jun 04 at 17:56

hopefully it was tax disc thingy used by the DVLA

I did think they had to have speed camera signs within a certain radius of the cameras or the van has to be marked.

Anyway i will defo think twice before breaking the limit agian

Paul_J

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10th Jun 04 at 19:59

Yesterday I went to Weston Supremare and back (all on M4/M5)

took me about 2 hours 20 mins on the way there (traffic was pretty poo), bout 4pm... I think I saw that van... I slowed down for it, but It looked to me just like a van parked (I looked for open doors... nothing?)

Then accelerated back up to quicker speeds...

On the way back (1:30 am (I left)), I literally did 105-110 mph all the way... and it took about 1 hr 15 mins

Was absolutely no traffic at all - I saw a police car while I was doing these speeds, but he was pulling someone else

, slowed down, went past and then accelerated back up to speed.

I saw no camera's on bridges on the way back (pitch black)

Though interestingly blasting down some country roads on the way home, once I was off the motorway I had a police car follow me all the way to my house

then drove past slowly (2nd time they've done this...)

Sims

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10th Jun 04 at 20:04

yeah must have been the same van. I saw it at 8.30am and about 2.45pm yesterday and it had two tripods either side. No doors were open on the van.

This was round about junction 16/17 on m4

Paul_J

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10th Jun 04 at 20:07

yeh junction number sounds about right... I didn't notice tri-pods... though I suppose they might of been there...

I wouldn't be too worried mate - they won't nick u at 80ish anyway...

Sims

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10th Jun 04 at 20:15

the bloke might have been packing up at 4pm. Yeah hopefully i will be ok. time will tell

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