HauptRenate
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Err guys,
Want some advice please.
I had some urgent business to attend to so I was driving down the M5, than I found myself behind a van that I initially thought was a Highways Maintenance van, as it had the usual diagonal red and yellow stripes down the back. I hadn't realised it was a speed camera van until I overtook it, then I saw the speed camera icons on th sides and the front. I looked down at my speedo thinking I was doing 70 and found that I was doing considerably more than the national speed limit for UK motorways. He then followed me for a little while, I'd guess, to get my number plate in focus. He was an otherwise unmarked white van, aside of the usual red and yellow diagonal lines on the back, with the exact same icons you get on traffic signs warning of a camera ahead.
My query is this, just so I'm certain:
If this is offical vehicle, and methinks it was, if I'm logged/clocked, than its a £120 fine (or more?), at least 6 points on my license (or more?) and being banned for a year, right?
I wouldn't expect any of you guys to have done this yourselves.
If so I'm f****d then arn't I?
Cheers
Renate
Want some advice please.
I had some urgent business to attend to so I was driving down the M5, than I found myself behind a van that I initially thought was a Highways Maintenance van, as it had the usual diagonal red and yellow stripes down the back. I hadn't realised it was a speed camera van until I overtook it, then I saw the speed camera icons on th sides and the front. I looked down at my speedo thinking I was doing 70 and found that I was doing considerably more than the national speed limit for UK motorways. He then followed me for a little while, I'd guess, to get my number plate in focus. He was an otherwise unmarked white van, aside of the usual red and yellow diagonal lines on the back, with the exact same icons you get on traffic signs warning of a camera ahead.
My query is this, just so I'm certain:
If this is offical vehicle, and methinks it was, if I'm logged/clocked, than its a £120 fine (or more?), at least 6 points on my license (or more?) and being banned for a year, right?
I wouldn't expect any of you guys to have done this yourselves.
If so I'm f****d then arn't I?
Cheers
Renate