Flashed by a Safety Camera last night while under speed limit

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Originally Posted by Mr Whippy

This thing you call a safety camera. What is it? Never seen one in Victoria. In Victoria we only have revenue raising cameras. They are all put in very safe places where there is little likely hood of a crash, so drivers tend to do 5 or 6 kays over then get pinged.

Dave.

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That explains the ticket that's made it's way to the UK and into my post last week. Wish I'd actually looked into what speed cameras in Oz look like, I might then have spotted the one that's got me doing 108km/h on the Bass Highway back in March. Ticket says I'm being done for doing 104km/h in a 100 zone. $150 fine :o

I find it hard to believe Scouse saw a red light and didnt pull over voluntarily--:p

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Originally Posted by spudboy

Make a "note" of it in your diary, that you got flashed and you were sure you were only doing 70. Then you can refer back to it if you get a ticket and want to take it to court.

We had a guy here in Adelaide yesterday who challenged his camera fine, and won because the magistrate believed his story more than the police's.

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Here in Vic if you challenge a speeding fine issued by a camera the police prosecutor will 9 times out of ten offer to waive the fine but not the points before the hearing. I heard this on the ABC from the police themselves. If you were speeding you may as well give court a whirl.

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Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

I find it hard to believe Scouse saw a red light and didnt pull over voluntarily--:p

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What!! Around Warwick Farm?

They're usually old enough to be my grandmother!!

Scott, Has the camera been set up for a while or is recently been converted to safety cam? If this a recent safety cam conversion it can take up to 3 months to be tested, validated, calibrated and bench marked before they start issuing fines. However, during this process it can be remotely operated as to test all sensors and flashes. The flash systems have been problematic. Some being to bright or not bright enough this is all part of the testing phase.

Rob

Hi Rob,
It's been there for around 6-9 months IIRC, maybe even a bit longer.

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Originally Posted by spudboy

Make a "note" of it in your diary, that you got flashed and you were sure you were only doing 70. Then you can refer back to it if you get a ticket and want to take it to court.

We had a guy here in Adelaide yesterday who challenged his camera fine, and won because the magistrate believed his story more than the police's.

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The police have nothing to do with the scameras its all RTA and private contractors. I wouldnt worry to much I have seen several of these flash for no reason that I could see and no ticket :D

Don't worry your pushbike doesn't have rego plates so they can only track you by your AULRO jersey nickname...

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Get more mud on your rig and all will be fine:twisted:.
If not let me know and I will see if the ranga will lend you her C1 plates.

Introduced them here a while ago plenty of cases of them going off randomly for no apparent reason, take note of day time and the speed you were doing and then don't worry about it unless a bill turns up in the mail. Odds on you won't see the bill because there isn't one although admittedly here they are still run by the state so there is some semblance of honesty with sending bills out, they still have nothing to do with safety.