Safe Speed Forums

Driving north from Bagshot to Bracknell today on the A322 dual carriageway, I received, as before, various alerts to "safety camera" vans. I'm noticing that the signs in the Thames Valley area are getting bigger, and although there was no van in the layby which is clearly the location that would have been used, there was a post upon which was mounted a very large sign.

No problem there, but just below the sign I could see a box about 13cm square with what appeared to be a rectangular lens bearing aperture on the front of it. Much of the traffic around me seemed to be going rather faster than 70, though quite safely, so the drivers did not seem fazed by this thing.

My first thought was that it could have been a new type of speed camera, but as a regular reader of this board, I would expect to be amongst the first to know of any new types of camera or methods of deployment, such as hiding cameras in horse boxes, for example.

So I'm wondering if this thing I saw really is a new weapon of mass distraction, or whether it's a dummy to con people into thinking that their speed is being monitored, just as dummy road markings are sometimes used to achieve the same effect.

If it's like one we had near us, I asked the chap installing it what it was for, and he said it was to monitor the traffic speeds to see if anything was required to slow it down!

Didn't take numbers or pictures, just recorded all the speeds.

Thanks, Oscar - that's a relief then!

I have seen these too - they seem to have replaced the red light cameras that were there previously. Dual purpose devices? Next time I go past I'll stop in the layby and get some pics.

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that road also has a rather ridiculous 50mph speed limit on it which creates a 'speeding' problem.

I cant understand why the limit is 50 on the dual carriage way in surrey and then 60 by the ambulance and fire station. which is a semi built up single carriage way

You know like those cameras on bridges that are just used to monitor the motorway conditions? It could be one of them but in a different place.