Speed cameras

TheSneakiness · 06-10-2005, 08:53 AM

This mainly concerns Queensland, but feel free to help anyway...

Using the Bruce Highway as an example, just say you were travelling north, and there's a speed camera sitting over on the other side of the highway facing south, can you get flashed for speeding on the northbound travelling side from a southbound facing camera?

This thread will help decide if I should wait at the letterbox with baited breath...

Matty4 · 06-10-2005, 09:01 AM

Here in Vic you can be done going the other way provided there is no other traffic travelling in the same direction as the camera is pointing and that it's on a single lane road. Knowing how wide the median strip is on the Bruce Hwy (was driving there in March) I doubt the cameras ability to accurately measure your speed on such an angle across the hwy. If you do receive one I would be certain you'd be able to defend it and get off as the cameras are set up with a pretty narrow field of view.

Cheers,
Matty

gozza · 06-10-2005, 09:26 AM

i would think you would be safe
i went past a speed camera facng me but on the other side of the road
3 lanes on my side...3 lanes on the cameras side and i was in the middle lane on my side....doing well over the speed limit and i didn't get done....

ELAUBA · 06-10-2005, 09:38 AM

I would wait with baited breath - you could be done.

Gozza - I have received one in exactly your circumstances, except I wasn't well over the speed limit much at all (but obviously far enough!)

F6Tornado · 06-10-2005, 09:39 AM

My bro was done by a camera on the other side of the gateway a few years back not sure but i think he got off as his argument was that he new it was there and that there was other traffic around in the pic he is looking rite at the camera with a smile. So im not sure if that helps or not but i was book y'day out side gladstone was rollin down a hill in a 100 zone with a trailer onto a flat they got me 123. not happy jan:(

silver rogue · 06-10-2005, 09:50 AM

you need to look at the funnel if it was a 4 wheel drive,the tube that comes out of a lot of 4x4's,like the breather thing when under water if its facing u,then yes u will get done,as the camera lens in in the top of it,and which ever way that faces it takes the photo,but thats on the 4x4 police camera cars,not the 1's inside the car,its a new set up now,diff from a couple of years ago

TheSneakiness · 06-10-2005, 09:55 AM

Just happened to be a 4WD as well.

S**t. I really didn't need this right now.

gozza · 06-10-2005, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Parsnip

I would wait with baited breath - you could be done.

Gozza - I have received one in exactly your circumstances, except I wasn't well over the speed limit much at all (but obviously far enough!)

ohh that sucks
guess i got lucky

Thunder · 06-10-2005, 10:13 AM

In NSW fixed speed cameras are only allowed to take a photo of the rear of the vehicle (privacy laws). Fixed spped cameras work via a sensor groved into the road (like traffic light sensors), they only work as you drive past them and they take a photo of the rear. I belive its the same in Qld.

TheSneakiness · 06-10-2005, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Thunder

In NSW fixed speed cameras are only allowed to take a photo of the rear of the vehicle (privacy laws). Fixed spped cameras work via a sensor groved into the road (like traffic light sensors), they only work as you drive past them and they take a photo of the rear. I belive its the same in Qld.

Thing is though that it was a 4WD speed camera setup on the side of the highway, facing the opposite direction I was going.

Must have a look and see if these privacy laws come into it.

EDIT - Just reading the QLD Police website, it seems that you can get done both ways. F for a front-on shot, A for going the same direction the camera is facing. Waiting on the mail right now.

MITCHAY · 06-10-2005, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Thunder

In NSW fixed speed cameras are only allowed to take a photo of the rear of the vehicle (privacy laws). Fixed spped cameras work via a sensor groved into the road (like traffic light sensors), they only work as you drive past them and they take a photo of the rear. I belive its the same in Qld.

I guess its the same in ACT too. Everyone speeds pasts the camera goin Northbound when it faces Southbound. Ive also heard that in the ACT that not all the cameras actually take pictures.

What I mean is that the actual camera units are fake and they just swap them around every now and again. I heard this from a mate whos friend's dad is a cop. Therefore I cannot be sure how true it is.

NAK302 · 06-10-2005, 10:29 AM

i reckon you'll be ok. they take the photo as your going away from them, not towards them. where on the "goat track" were you?

TheSneakiness · 06-10-2005, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by nak351

i reckon you'll be ok. they take the photo as your going away from them, not towards them. where on the "goat track" were you?

Just after the Nambour/Bli Bli turnoff going north. I got onto the Bruce, was caught behind 3 slow moving cars and a truck, accelerated into the right lane, looked at my speedo, looked right, camera.

Dave_au · 06-10-2005, 10:41 AM

Isnt that still four lane there - with a divider?

Was it the blue Hilux or the Kahkai Landcruiser?

TheSneakiness · 06-10-2005, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Dave_au

Isnt that still four lane there - with a divider?

Was it the blue Hilux or the Kahkai Landcruiser?

Yep, four lanes, two each way, grass divider with quite a nice ditch right in the middle of it.

Green Cruiser.

Dave_au · 06-10-2005, 11:53 AM

If it was on the other side of the road facing there I wouldnt worry about it - it was facing south, and in the cruisers the speed camera is mounted in the back taking frontal shots. For them to photograph each way they really need to do it on a single lane road with no divider.

TheSneakiness · 06-10-2005, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave_au

If it was on the other side of the road facing there I wouldnt worry about it - it was facing south, and in the cruisers the speed camera is mounted in the back taking frontal shots. For them to photograph each way they really need to do it on a single lane road with no divider.

Really? Hmmm... I'll wait for a week on the mail, then that will really tell the tale.

silver rogue · 06-10-2005, 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by nak351

i reckon you'll be ok. they take the photo as your going away from them, not towards them. where on the "goat track" were you?

nak351 thats crap,i drive the m1 brissy to gold coast 5 times aweek they take yr pic coming towards them and away from them,its only at night that yr photo will be takes when going away from the camera because of the flash,ie cant flash yr eyes as yr driving towards them as it's an accident waiting to happen.when next u see a speed camera look at the snorkel black pipe that goes up the 4x4 and if the camera is facing u then u will see the lence in the box at the top of the snorkel ,anyways from what au has said i think he will be fine,time will tell.

Rodp · 06-10-2005, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Thunder

In NSW fixed speed cameras are only allowed to take a photo of the rear of the vehicle (privacy laws). Fixed spped cameras work via a sensor groved into the road (like traffic light sensors), they only work as you drive past them and they take a photo of the rear. I belive its the same in Qld.

I don't think that's the case anymore. There's a fixed speed camera after Mt Ousley near Wollongong Uni that takes a happy snap of the front of your car.