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Please tell me those traffic cameras on top of the traffic lights dont work!?

 

What do they actually do?

 

AS I just been through them at red was busy not looking straight ahead and missed them

 

So went straight through on red

 

Im scared stiff now that I will get a ticket...

 

Can anyone advise?

Posted

Please tell me those traffic cameras on top of the traffic lights dont work!?

 

What do they actually do?

 

AS I just been through them at red was busy not looking straight ahead and missed them

 

So went straight through on red

 

Im scared stiff now that I will get a ticket...

 

Can anyone advise?

This link gives some information http://www.kentandmedwaysafetycameras.org....ras_page02.html

for my area Kent, but I presume they all work on the same principle.

Good luck!

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If the car is registered to you at your home address, you should get a Fixed Penalty notice through the post within the next 14 days...

 

If you have less than 9 points already, you should be able to pay the £60 fine and have 3 points added to your licence...

 

If nine or more, it's a visit to the magistrates court... :blink:

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I know that's not you wanted to hear, just showing you how they work. It's pointless pre-empting the outcome, it's just a case of wait and see and hope for the best.

I'm sure all on the forum hope it turns out ok and there was no film.

Posted

Please tell me those traffic cameras on top of the traffic lights dont work!?

 

What do they actually do?Can anyone advise?

 

 

There are NO cameras on top of traffic lights.

 

They are just radar sensors to detect traffic flow, so they know how much traffic is flowing and the speed.

 

They don't enforce any laws.

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as C4VTS said.... I don't know of cameras on top of traffic lights, only the ones positioned just before the lights that look like mini gatsos. Or if in London you have to watch out for the CCTV cameras which have a habit of catching you in yellow hatched boxes
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As before the little boxes mounted ontop are for camera operation.

 

The Gatso...

 

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/6088/trafficsignalcamera5iv.jpg

 

and

 

Monitron

 

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/6668/g2217hf.jpg (Set up as a speed camera)

 

are typically mounted by lights for snapping Red Light Jumpers.

 

Side note the above pic of the monitron is taken about half mile down the road from where I live and can also see the Gatso in the distance (above Yellow mini) which also faces the same direction. Thankfully the large sign infront of the Monitron has now been removed.

 

I dont condone speeding et al and we all make mistakes....Monitrons are complete bar-stewards on Traffic Lights as not only will they go off if you jump the light they will also knick you for speeding through the lights. So even trying to race the lights and succesfully get through, but if you are over the limit you've had it.

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There are NO cameras on top of traffic lights.

 

They are just radar sensors to detect traffic flow, so they know how much traffic is flowing and the speed.

 

They don't enforce any laws.

 

I like this response best :-)

 

they are the little ones that are directly on top of the traffic lights i was talking about...

 

I am a very careful driver and dont normally make these mistakes. I could understand it if i had raced through the lights but i was just being distracted.

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there is a Gatso near me that was blown up with a firework, another had expanding foam put in it and the lenses are always being spray painted. I dont think the police are bothered about putting film in them anymore.

 

Another trick with Gatso's. If an emergency vehicle is going down that road with blues on then the cameras are turned off for a few minutes, or you could always go past them at 150mph+ as they cant react fast enought to catch you. I like the latter solution personally :unsure:

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Only once have I seen a Gtaso go off whilst in a queue of traffic.....

 

We were sat in a long queue of traffic and we had token Max'ed Nova GTE infront. As the traffic in front moved forward they would hold back until a big gap formed and they'd floor it up to the end of the queue. Unfortunatly he did this as he went passed a camera in a 30mph limit and thus *FLASH* - *FLASH* got snapped. :unsure: ;)

 

Complete nugget.

Posted
theres a few traffic lights with light sensors on them as well which you can flash as you approach and the lights change to green. Saw a police car do this the other day on the way home at 4am so i had to try it out...
Posted
lots of traffic lights work on sensors in the road, you can usually see the cut out in the road, there's a junction in accrington where all the taxis sit and flash their lights but the sensor is in the road so they are just reducing the life of the bulbs

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