Just a question to anyone.................

If someone was driving a car on a dual carriageway and maybe speeding a little 80-85 mph (not sure), and a car came flying up your rear bumper. You still stay at the same speed for a couple of miles and then you drive under some lights and realise that the car behind is a normal white marked police car, who then pull past and drive of at the next roundabout.

My question is, do you reckon they would be recording the speed in order to prosecute? and do they have this technology in all the cars........

 

If they wanted to talk to you, they would of done.

So how fast was you really going then?

 

That is what I told this person..............they would have stopped em there and then!!

However his missus was shouting at him telling him that they had recorded the speed and will do him...........so it kind of got him worried!!

 

Panda cars dont have video im sure they dont , traffic cars do , but if they were worried they have hit the blues and pulled ya

 

They would of pulled you there & then.

 

yep they would have pulled u there and then mate

 

yep adn panda cars cant do you for speeding as they dont get calibrated hes fine

 

Panda cars do not have HOME OFFICE approved calibrated speedos, (although even these are NOT accurate anyway), panda drivers have not been on a course to operate said equiptment in line with the evidential act needed for prosecution either.
tabetha

 

they can also do you with non endoursable offences such as dangerous driving....if they were so inclined

 

Should have gone to Specavers if you didn't notice a marked car within 2 miles, sorry, your mate should have.

You're more likely to get done for driving without due care and Attention.

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Most cars speedos aint that accurate (unlike a traffic cars)
say 5-7 mph out at 70
So say your car was showing 85 that probs only a genuine 78mph and as they have to allow you a 10% discrepency either way they cant do you untill a genuine 77 mph so would be hard for them to prove it was a worthwile tug for 1 mph over what you could be done for.

Like on here so many people say how lucky they are cos they was "doing like a ton" but only being reported for 85 etc, not cos the cops are feeling generous or how quick they asjusted their speed (cops probs been following em for ages) but cops are reporting a TRUE speed not some shonky old cars speedo reading. People seem to understand this when people quote the top speeds of there cars saying it was "only" a speedo reading, but forget it when they think they got off lite


OR at least hope so cos tend to drive to my sat nav speed rather than my speedo and then push it to say a sat nav reading of 76 mph, which generally has my speedo between 85 and 90 lol bet i wont be laughing one day tho, but aint had nowt thru when driving thru gatso with speed restriction of 50 at sat nav reading of 54 and speedo reading of about 60


Steve

 

It is actually impossible for a mechanically driven speedo to be 100% accurate.
They do not have to allow any margin this is a recommendation, and thankfully one which most courts uphold, the offence has been commited even if by only 1 mph, why it was commited is another story, should all people with sat navs be treated different as this tells them a more accurate speed then ?
Most forces have thier speedos calibtrated by RS in Nottingham, and even RS do NOT gaurantee 100% accuracy as it is impossible, they can gaurantee 100% accuracy from input but this is the problem, the input(speedo drive) can never be(100%) accurate.
tabetha