Traffic camera perfomance award

[graler]

I got one in Iowa several years ago. I was in a rental car. There were three photos on the NOV. Plate, close up of driver and then a wider shot of the car. The clarity was admirable. It was a small fee - $25. I sent a check. Kept the violation hanging on my bulletin board. When those that reported to me traveled I pointed to it an reminded them to be cautious.

 

[juniorfjr]

So, while in Arizona for Beemerdons funeral and wake I found out apparently the fine city of La Mirage has a speed camera. They sent my wife a letter in the mail with a nice picture of someone who looks like me driving a car that looks like ours.Has anyone experienced such a similar circumstance? I remember someone offering advice on how to combat something like this. Do I have any options?

You are probably lucky you didn't get stopped after the wake, JSNS Oh wait, your wife was driving

No sir, I put Brodie behind the wheel, after we folded him up

 

[juniorfjr]

That's too bad Fred, I got nothing to help you out of this.

Maybe slow down...if I recall right, my FJR got its worst mileage ever running with you!!

--G

Makes you wonder how many times Fred should have been busted and got away with it.

G, you cut deep.

And Ray, that's not the point. True, but not the point.

 

[SkooterG]

Don't pay it. Don't do anything. They hope for you to be one of the sheep that will easily cough up your hard earned dollars. Don't make it easy on them. If they haven't served you within 120 days after the ticket is "filed", (a week or so after the violation date) it is dismissed.

Google is your friend. All kinds of info out there.

I have myself have played this game most successfully. ....

 

[Horsefly]

It's the same in Spokane Long shot photo, close up of license plate but add on the video feed and $124.00 for a near stop right turn at 0600 on a Sunday morning. No traffic in sight and I was on a response at the request of law enforcement. Washington camera tickets are clearing housed out of Arizona. The photos and video are viewed by an officer and verified if you can call it that. Then all other actions are brokered to a clearinghouse somewhere in Arizona. After making a statement as to my being in response status at the request of law enforcement (a plane crash into Banks Lake, I am a State employee HazMat responder) it made no difference in the ticket.

That sucks.

 

[Bounce]

I've seen 3 traffic light violations done via stop light cameras. None of them were me. ALL of them appeared to be my wife. Close up of tag, longer shot of the car. Video leading up and and past the violation. The first time she claimed she didn't know you had to stop before making a right on red ("but there wasn't anyone coming the other way!"). I hate to be a family contributing to the stupid crap happening on the road out there but the reaction from her when I said, "Right turn on red... AFTER STOP!" was something out of "The Three Faces of Eve".

Anyway...

In TX it's a civil violation so isn't a moving violation with points (which is lame since it wasn't until a few years ago that TX stated using the points system at all). $75 a pop and none of them my fault. My name is on the titles.

 

[Big Sky]

Come to Montana! Our legislature outlawed any type of camera traffic violations or enforcement. Sometimes I actually agree with these folks.

 

[RaYzerman19]

Quite a few years ago we had photo radar in Ontario on the 400 series highways (freeways). A photo radar van operated by third party would park on the shoulder and pictures were triggered by radar. There was little tolerance over the limit, essentially just to allow a bit of speed error, meanwhile patrolling LEO's would allow 20 km over the limit.... Tickets issued to the vehicle owner, who had to pay, and if not, would have to pay up at tag renewal time.... no pay, no tag. Anyway, there was such an outrage over it all (no tolerance, cash cow, third party, etc.) it was killed. There have been attempts to resurrect it, but it hasn't happened so far........

 

[dcarver]

I've had two NOV's arrive in the mail for supposedly riding my FJR across the Golden Gate bridge after running the transponder lane. Each time, the pix reveled some guy riding a HD.

So your case is different. It's a good thing I chose the good car to ride in!

 

[mcatrophy]

UK is like RaYzerman19's post, only it continues to be enforced vigorously. There's no get-out clause, if the registered keeper wasn't driving he/she has to inform the authorities who was driving, or else take the hit.

Automatic points on licence, and assosciated increase in insurance premiums.

I'm not sure how visitors from the US would be treated, I suspect if they were in a hire car the fine would be taken off their credit card.

At least my Tomtom knows where the fixed cameras are, and to some extent where mobile ones are likely to be parked.

Not that I would ever exceed a posted speed limit.

 

[gregory]

Got a ticket on the autobahn a few years back, 110kph in a 60kph construction zone about 2 am. The car belonged to my friend, registered in Norway. No drinking or any thing like that, just traveling late. Ticket was 30 euros which they collect on the spot. My traveling companion, a Norwegian was dumbfounded that it cost me so little. He was telling me that it would have cost him quite a bit more and the would have been serious ramifications to his license/insurance. I still regret not taking a photo with the three German cops.

Still have the ticket on my bulletin board at work.

 

[puppychow]

Got a traffic ticket in India once. Pays to know people, so you don't have to pay.

 

[Auburn]

The company I work for installs RedFlex systems. They use either detection loops in the roadway set at a specific distance apart to sense the object passing over and then calculating speed or they use radar to sense speed.

If the give you a video link like here in Washington, watch it. There use to be a camera in Puyallup that was set up for right turns. The camera was aimed to catch the signal head in the shot, but it was aimed in such a way that it could not see the green arrow that came on during the overlap phase that made it legal to to make the right turn without stopping. Unless you zoomed in on the video, you would not see the tail of the green arrow was on.

It took several months for the City to fix the camera, and who knows how many false NOV were sent out.

 

[fjrchooser]

I've got a 2006 ticket on my motorcycle map hanging on my bedroom wall right below the lyrics to "i've been everywhere,man". 95 bucks paid to the Sweetwater Circuit Court courtesy of Wyoming Highway Patrol. Pretty sure I was on my way to the Reno FJR meet.

Was just thinking -before I could stop myself- how great it was to be out west where men could be men without looking over their shoulder for the real man constantly when I came eye to eye with them across the divided highway going in opposite directions. I was just glad we hadn't come across each other a few miles back..

They came up to me, saw my gas receipts and times for my Iron Butt through the window of my tank bag and that I was in Michigan 9 hrs earlier so I was pretty much without excuse. We were stopped on a crest by Flaming Gorge when 2 F-15's came screaming along below us. You could see the rivets on the tops of the wings, pilots through the canopies. I had a big smile and the cop staying with me while his partner wrote me up said "Great day for a motorcycle ride " and " you don't even care about this ticket do you ? " Best one I ever had.