Nope! If he was I'd be able to get a job there.

Have a word with your brother. I'm sure he'll be able to tell you of a number
of instances where the police would legitimately drive above the speed limit
without blues and twos.

do you have sat nav , if so set it up and drive your car at the same speed that you where doing when you went through the camera , you will find that the actual speed of your vehicle on the speedometer is greater than the sat nav , the point i am making is that the gps reading is very accurate and a good guide to go off rather than a vehicle speedometer , your speedometer has many discrepencies, ie tyre tread , under inflated , calibration etc , most vehicle manufacturers tend to make the speedometer read higher than the actual road speed for this reason , otherwise everybody would be getting speeding tickets .
if the camera didnt flash it either didnt have a bulb in or works off infra red , you could research this if you get a photo of the camera and go on the net , if it flashed you would probably of seen it [ even in bright weather ] . lastly if your vehicle is a company vehicle it most probably will have a gps tracking device fitted , if so you could go into the history and find exactly when this happened and also record your exact speed between given points , if you are under the speed limit on the tracker and have been issued with a fine , well take it to court , belive me it wouldnt stand , gps is admissable in court , [ it doesnt lie ] . hope this puts your mind at rest .

I just had to reply to this point. When our house was being broken into at 3am while my children slept the police didn't want to know. We dialled 000 from my husband's mobile to say someone was breaking into our house and the response was "ok we'll send someone around". Did they ask our address? No. Not even which suburb we live in, never mind our street or house number! Calling from a mobile there would have been no way for them to know unless we told them. The fact is that here in WA the police don't give a s**t about you being robbed while your children sleep.

Right.......so you get a lazy or incompetent call taker and that means the police don't care that you are being burgled?

So what happened next? did you ring back or did you deal with the situation yourself?

A lady I used to work with 18 months ago was broken into in the middle of the night. She is a single parent with one child. Being woken by the intruder's noise and absolutely petrified (as you can imagine) she called the police with him still in the house and tried to get them to come out. They did .... three hours later.

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Not 100% sure...but Ithink this is an outdated assumption in the UK.
The new digital camera's clock the actual speed of the car and the new digital electronics and better engineering in car manufacture is taken as accurate.
Hence complaint that speedo watching can cause accidents.


In Oz it seems normal for there to be at least three warning signs about camera's, so if you get nicked.......

Heading out of Melbourne a couple of years back, we spotted a copper with an hand held speed camera hiding in a bush!

So in Oz at least - the UK habit of slowing fo rthe camera ..then legging it to make up time....is not a good idea.

My husband dealt with it himself. However, it was not just a matter of a lazy or incompetent call taker. When we reported that we had been burgled and that my husband's passport had been stolen along with sensitive materials on his work laptop the WA police couldn't have been less interested. We asked for a report to be made so we could get him a new passport and instead of the police coming to our house to take a look around and maybe take some fingerprints they told us that if we want to make a report we would have to go to the Joondalup station. They would not take fingerprints and made a big production of how much of a pain in the ass it was to do a report for us.
That's awful.

Sign of a future police state anyone?

All depends on whether the limits are too slow in the first place buddy.

Well they only want out 'tax', sorry fines, when we do the minute of things wrong, yet do we get a reward for driving for years under the law? Do we buggery! They smell of poo IMO.

Ha ha - yeah like when they're late for their mid morning doughnut hit

ps I love my brother but.......

I got flashed by a camera on the Roe highway more than 6 months ago. I'm guessing that after 6 months of waiting that I'm not going to get a ticket

You may still get it.

Canberra Based opinion only.

8 weeks ago I went through a speed camera doing 80kms in a 60km zone. I knew I was in the wrong and just waved out the window to the camera operator. "Touch wood" to date, I have not received a ticket.

I know I shouldnt have been doing the speed that I was and I also knew that speed camera vans operated in this area. Stupid oversight by me but the big sheepish smile and wave to acknowledge my wrong doing might have gone a long way.

Barney