Can i be prosicuted if caught speeding by radar/laser, even if not pulled over?
Right, so i'll cut a long story short.
Was driving a friend home this afternoon, going along a fairly quiet road in which the speed limit was 30mph. I know this road very well and is quite plainly, straight, with set back house one side and open fields the other.
So i was doing around 40mph along this road, when from behind a silver astra pops out PC Plod with his radar/laser gun pointing at my car. By the time i had realised he was taking my speed, i had passed thus not being able to slow down in time.
Now my question is, can i be prosecuted? The thing is other cars coming the opposite way (the side of the copper) seemed to be getting waved to pull over if speeding, where as PC Plod just pointed the radar gun at me and gave me a wierd looks as i 'sped' by.
Now, i'm not saying i'm in the right and that he wasn't just doing his job, but can a i be prosicuted even though i wasn't pulled over... seeing as there was no camera to capture a picture of my car/registration?
Yes. You may receive a ticket in the mail. From what you describe, however, it seems that you were lucky in that the police were working the other side of the street and the one timing you probably was just checking your speed to make you slow down. You never know what they are really up to. sometimes they set up a such a speed trap and use it as an excuse to pull people over for other reasons such as a registration and insurance check. In such cases, unless you were way over the speed limit they will just warn you if all your paper work checks out.
Sometimes it is because of complaints about speeding in the area by residents. Police will make a big flashy show of pulling a lot of people over so they can appease the locals, and slow everyone down who sees them.
They certainly can just use the speed check gun and video camera to send mail out tickets. That is pretty rare, though.
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