Two speed camera fines within 20 min!

[Highlander]

not sure how they'd get your plate number????

I've heard rumour of camera vans where the operator has a didgital camera facing forward and snaps your pic as you go past. Just like that, they have photos of you from front and back with a spilt second difference in time stamp. The bill is in the mail...

[george formby]

I feel your pain, although it sounds like you were a bit more than 5km/h over the limit...

I got one yesterday from Whangarei on the 1st. We were on or way to visit friends and I was apparently doing 55km/h in a 50 zone! Bummer! Of course they did trumpet that 4km/h tolerance for the holiday period... But on the bypass route through Whangarei is hard to keep watching the speedo all the time...

So true & the rest of the traffic treats it like the Monaco F1 circuit. You get a ticket just trying to keep up.

[Berries]

I'm surprised that there are so few incidents of 2 patrol cars a couple of k's from each other on the same side in order to get the motorists who think "yay, got past him ok, now i can open it up" or do they do that a lot already?

It certainly used to be quite a common method of operation.

I don't buy into the "they changed the speed limit" argument.

Have you ridden up Kaikorai Valley Road lately ? They took the signs down for that short 70 at the Green Island end, then the Police started enforcing the 'new' 50km/h speed limit.

[baptist]

That's my single biggest complaint about speed cameras. Personally I beleive there should be an amnesty period between first offence and when the ticket is issued.

So, if you know you got snapped, you've essentially got "license to speed"...?

I agree with NinjaNanna with regards to the same camera, it does seem a tad rough being pinged twice by the same camera. I guess if you get caught by a couple of different ones then maybe it can be argued not as a case of being quick on a particular stretch of road but a case of constant and consistant speeding around town...

I know it is a fine line but a human face on Policing would surely be a ticket for the first offence and either a reduced ticket or a letter included in the envelope saying something like "are you so stupid as to keep speeding?" Two tickets, same camera within a short time frame is just revenue gathering and punishment I cannot see as it has anything to do with road safety. Sympathy, rant and moan over.

[jasonu]

Pardon my ignorance (well this time anyway) has anyone been speed camera ticketed on their bike? I have gone past several cameras a tad quicker than was proper and not seen it flash or had a ticket (touch wood).

I heard they will soon be implementing cameras that will scan the iris of the speeding motorcyclist, cross reference it with drivers license pics then mail out tickets to the appropriate offender. Been happening for a few years here.

[superman]

I heard they will soon be implementing cameras that will scan the iris of the speeding motorcyclist, cross reference it with drivers license pics then mail out tickets to the appropriate offender. Been happening for a few years here.

What a sick, sick country you live in!

[rickstv]

I know this is a bit tongue in cheek, but couldn't you argue that both tickets were for the same offence as you were doing the same speed round the block and got snapped twice. Just a thought.
Rick.

[p.dath]

I know this is a bit tongue in cheek, but couldn't you argue that both tickets were for the same offence as you were doing the same speed round the block and got snapped twice. Just a thought.
Rick.

Your thinking of double jeopardy, which is a defence - against a second conviction for the same thing.
http://www.justice.govt.nz/publicati...ouble-jeopardy

Section 26 of the Bill of Rights Act is as follows:

Retroactive offences and double jeopardy

1. No one shall be liable to conviction of any offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute an offence by such person under the law of New Zealand at the time it occurred.
2. No one who has been finally acquitted or convicted of, or pardoned for, an offence shall be tried or punished for it again

[red mermaid]

Lesson learnt by you, and hopefully you will slow down and give more respect for the people who live in the area, as by your own admission you were travelling at 100 km/h + in a 60 km/h area.

[pritch]

I have gone past several cameras a tad quicker than was proper and not seen it flash or had a ticket (touch wood).

The local operators here don't flash. Too many shitheads came back to argue.

That's a bit like arguing with a meter maid. You might be pissed off, but what can there possibly be to argue about?

[pete376403]

Pardon my ignorance (well this time anyway) has anyone been speed camera ticketed on their bike? I have gone past several cameras a tad quicker than was proper and not seen it flash or had a ticket (touch wood).

A friend went past a mobile camera near kaikoura at 159km/hr. Picture taken was of the front of the bike. Police were notified by the camera operator and he was stopped near blenheim. Cop took a photo of him on the bike which was then compared to the speed cam photo.
Went to court, largish fine but he did not loose his license.

[terbang]

Arghhh, bloody "Cop-out" policing.

[White trash]

As in, if I had been punished the first time I wouldn't have done it the second time,

But you knew what the speed limit was, and you still broke it. Are you telling us that you'll never speed again, now that you've received your punishment?

[Houseman]

But you knew what the speed limit was, and you still broke it. Are you telling us that you'll never speed again, now that you've received your punishment?

Fair point.

[Badgerclarke]

So if you get caught by a camera it's just a fine and if you get caught by a cop it's points and a fine? I'm asking as in the UK you get both regardless of how you get caught.