The speed vans at night?

Oh well, since posting this two weeks ago, my brush with a van on Limestone Ave. has come to nought. I was lucky. Talk about a dodgy position for the van, however: left of red car in this view, hard up against small tree and street poles. http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Canberra+act&sll=-25.335448,135.745076&sspn=56.828725,79.013672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Canberra+Australian+Capital+Territory&ll=-35.270762,149.140917&spn=0.006482,0.009645&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=-35.270937,149.141017&panoid=963Txwj-aa3IKhlepv2Drg&cbp=12,177.54,,0,5.5

I went past one well over the limit on saturday. It was at night, and I did not see a flash. I was riding a motorbike, so in the absence of a front number plate, I think it is unlikely that I will get a ticket either way.

madman said :

Yeah i’m sorry fnaah but you’re wrong. You will see a red flash when the camera takes a photo at night……

How certain are you? given this is an old thread… any current updates to this claim?

🙂

Yep, they flash. I saw one in my rear vision mirror driving through O’Connor once. Got the ticket a few weeks later. Interestingly though I got another letter a few months later giving me a refund and my point back as the 50 zone wasn’t marked.

I went past a speed camera van on the Barton Hwy near Mitchell one day (pre Gungahlin Dr) and it had the sensor things out on the side of the road a few metres before the van and it flashed as I went passed (even though I was sure I was doing the speed limit) but I never received a speeding fine.

Police don’t have speed check vans.

The tickets don’t even go to Police.

They don’t flash.

It’s your car headlights that reflect off of the red lens of the infra red flash.

(does that make sense?)

I fully support Headbonius.

FFS.TAMS.FMD

fnaah said :

Did you get pinged by the van on the parkway heading north from tuggeranong? 🙂

I’m pretty sure you won’t see a flash from the van-based cameras *or* the fixed ones. They use infra-red, which people can’t see.

they love putting one on the parkway heading north after sulwood drive at night time, i’ve seen one there many times, you can normally see the reflection of the sign well ahead anyway.

And the answer to the question is yes. they normally put a flash unit outside the van when operating at night.

Why don’t you test it? Go reallllly fast past one at night and have a look?

I doubt you’ll actually do this as you haven’t read the other posts about Police not operating the speed vans.

In all seriousness, please don’t test this. Curiosity is one thing, but stupidity is another. Although Darwin had a theory….

Does the Police Speed Checking Van flash if over the limit at night like a fixed speed camera?

FFS, don’t you morons know anything? This has nothing to do with the Police. FMD.