vibrio
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Registered: 28th Feb 01
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For what its worth the new rules state that:
Camera housings must be yellow
No camera housing should be obscured by bridges, signs, trees or bushes
Cameras must be visible from 60 metres away in 40 mph or less areas and 100 metres for all other limits
Camera warning and speed limit reminders must be placed within one kilometre of fixed and mobile camera sites
Signs must only be placed in areas where camera housings are placed or where mobile cameras are used
Mobile speed camera users must be highly visible by wearing fluorescent clothing and their vehicles marked with reflective strips
Camera sites must be reviewed at least every six months to ensure that visibility and signing conditions are being met
I went though a mobile speed trap last night (about 68 in a 60) and the van was not that visable until you got up close to it and the bushes were opstructing the releflective strips. now if I do get a NIP I can use the defence that there is no sign before it, that the van was not visbale from 100M. those rules suck. best bit is that it's on a downhill stretch of road on the A77 which I drive every day to work and I always check my speed at that point. forgot last night on the way to footie 
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vibrio
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no you can't use the fact they are not going by the rules as a defense. if they get caught breaking them they get removed from the scheme
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Ditch
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Registered: 29th Nov 02
Location: St Albans Drives: JDM Celica GT4 WRC
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Im the monkey who has to review the Cameras in Herts every 6months !
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kerzo
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Registered: 10th Nov 02
Location: Norn Iron
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when do these rules take effect?? surely you could take a picture of the place you were caught then that would be your evidence
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vibrio
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hello monkey
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M2RTY
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Registered: 25th May 01
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any way i can get off with an sp30 but was followed by a cop car not a speed camera?
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beav
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Registered: 20th Aug 01
Location: Home-Ayrshire (Troon), Uni-St Andrews
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Apparently these are guidelines and not rules 
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