anyone from taunton - i got caught speeding and usually careful

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A38 Blackpool, Taunton, Somerset.
Heading towards Taunton

I can only imagine it is past Monkton Heathfield junction towards Creech Castle stretch around the Jaguar and Land Rover Dealer

I always knew it as being 40mph once off the Dual Carriage way.

Annoyed as I was doing 37mph thinking it was 40.

does anyone know where i'm talking about?
 
There's a few of those nice little earner roads round here, been 40 for donkeys years, drop it to 30 and sit there with the van, kerching

There's a back road between 2 villages , a straight about 2 miles long, no houses, the van sits there in the middle waiting, they catch dozens every day doing 35mph yet the morons I see doing 45-50 everywhere else are doing 30 where the van sits.
 
theyve just done something similar on the main dual carriageway past bournemouth, theyve dropped the last 500 yards or so section down from 50 to 40 and theres a gatso halfway along it. i didnt realise the first morning, havent had anything through "yet" maybe they gave a grace period... but its stupid, that section never needs to be 40 in a million years.
 
do you mean Bathpool, havent been in that way for a little while but i though it was 30 along there, there is a camera as you get closer to Creech before the bridges
 
yeah that's the place

i was going towards taunton dual carriage way 70mph and then i see signs down to 40mph and so do 37mph (as caught)
but obviously it changes 40 to 30 quite quickly

i know before creech castle it's 30 with the little bridge, housing etc. but i think the change over to 40 to 30 must be very short in distance

grrr... can anything be done?

can i ask for proof, calibration of machine etc?
 
p1tse said:
yeah that's the place

i was going towards taunton dual carriage way 70mph and then i see signs down to 40mph and so do 37mph (as caught)
but obviously it changes 40 to 30 quite quickly

i know before creech castle it's 30 with the little bridge, housing etc. but i think the change over to 40 to 30 must be very short in distance

grrr... can anything be done?

can i ask for proof, calibration of machine etc?
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You can contest the speeding fine in whatever way you wish, and the case will then be heard in a magistrates' court. The ticket is cheaper, but that's the trade-off for not going through the court process. You will not be able to demand proof, calibration, etc, without contesting it - unless there is some local appeal process on the back of the ticket.
 
you can only but try, as i said cant remember the exact location of the camera or if it might have been a mobile one if further out, but generally in this area a lot of limits have been reduced recently. Usually its only when you are pulled over you can dispute the calibration on the mobile ones.
 
thanks for the heads up.. I usually take the other road (A3259), but I thought it was 40mph as well on A38 after the dual carriageway ended.
 
We also have 30 mph limits that used to be 40 mph, and in my mind were perfectly safe at that speed too.

I don't blame the Police, they're only there to enforce the law, however stupid it is. I do blame the local authorities though. It's about time they realised that they're there to serve and represent the public and not to rule them.
 
You can request the calibration certificates for the camera, copies of the image(s) and the operators statement. IIRC the camera has to have been calibrated that day for the reading to be valid.
 
It runs in to 40mph just before Taunton Landrover & then 30mph a little way on at the bend. The dear little chaps (:razz:) park on the right just inside the limit.
 
I was in lincolnshire last autumn driving through one of those villages where it's 30 mph for 1/2 a mile after the village ends, I stuck to the 30mph all the way with a queue behind me.

At the top of the hill there was a scamera van , he'd positioned it so it was right in the sun which was just rising so you couldn't see it at all, they can't tell me that wasn't well thought out to maximise the £££
 
One thing ive noticed is pay attention to other road users, even on roads you know well.

General consensus around here, is if theres something up (like a dodgy scamera van hidden away) they will flash you several times. Dont know if it happens elsewhere in the country, but its saved me alot of times.

You can argue it if it goes to court, but liklihood is the court wont care, they probably wont look at the evidence unless you go in person and shove it in their face. Apparantly according to one of my local judges at the magistrates court, a 125cc motorcycle can accelerate from 0 - 55mph in the space of 10 feet. Muppets :cuckoo:
 
talras said:
It runs in to 40mph just before Taunton Landrover & then 30mph a little way on at the bend. The dear little chaps (:razz:) park on the right just inside the limit.
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don't suppose you can post a picture of where exactly
 
OSB said:
You can request the calibration certificates for the camera, copies of the image(s) and the operators statement. IIRC the camera has to have been calibrated that day for the reading to be valid.
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what without going to court as above statement etc.?
 
faddius said:
General consensus around here, is if theres something up (like a dodgy scamera van hidden away) they will flash you several times. Dont know if it happens elsewhere in the country, but its saved me alot of times.
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That's all well and good until a copper sees you doing it, I believe they would call it perverting the course of justice.
 
wack61 said:
That's all well and good until a copper sees you doing it, I believe they would call it perverting the course of justice.
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No, we wouldn't - fortunately :lol:

Perverting the course of justice requires someone to be fabricating or concealing evidence (most commonly) or intimidating a juror or judge. It's a serious offence, and warning people about a speedgun up ahead wouldn't qualify...after all, you'd only be "reminding" people to be driving at the speed limit, wouldn't you? :thumbs:
 
Photo Plod said:
No, we wouldn't - fortunately :lol:

Perverting the course of justice requires someone to be fabricating or concealing evidence (most commonly) or intimidating a juror or judge. It's a serious offence, and warning people about a speedgun up ahead wouldn't qualify...after all, you'd only be "reminding" people to be driving at the speed limit, wouldn't you? :thumbs:
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Nice one photo plod... difficult to counter that argument :thumbs:
 
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