Avg Speed Check on M25 worries

OK people, I really need ur advice. Was travelling round M25 clockwise from Norfolk to A3.  As you might know, there's a load of roadworks just over the Dartford bridge or before the Dartford Tunnel.  I was travelling through the checks after the bridge and it was a 50mph zone.  All good.  

Until it said, end of roadworks, national speed limit.  So there was a camera just before this (I assumed the last one) and passed it at 50mph.  But after the national speed limit sign, about 1/2-3/4 mile down the road there is ANOTHER average speed check camera.  By this time I was doing about 80-85mph.  Clocked the camera and slowed right down but never going to make it down to lower than 70mph.

I'm stressing now cos I am almost certain I've got myself a speeding fine.  But then I did wonder if they'd even have that camera on seeing as it was already past the roadworks area (and sign saying national speed limit).  I'm still trying to convince myself that they've just turned that camera off and left it there whilst they're still doing these roadworks.

The other thing it makes me think is, was I still supposed to be going 50? There was definitely a national speed limit sign so…….I dunno

Any thoughts/comments appreciated.

DON'T PANIC!!!!!!

I think you should be OK.  The last camera is from when the roadworks stretched that far a few months back - it may not be operational.  However, if you had accelerated away from 50mph and travelled half a mile at 80 mph then slowed down by say 5 mph I think the average speed maybe mid 50s (taking acceleration time into consideration).  I'm no maths boffin so my figures may not be 100%.

Yeah you confirmed what I suspected with them just leaving it there….tbh I wasnt amazingly far away when I decelerated and I did put my foot down as soon as it said national speed.  
Really cheeky and misleading though isn't it?

I could tell you my opinion of some speed cameras but it would turn into an essay and I'd just get annoyed.

thers some just before notts from mine i went through the lot at 90 every day for a couple off weeks till someone pointed out what the were to me. well a year later and i heard nothing.

and once in the work van i went passed a camera near market deeping in the 60 zone at 50 and it flashed work got a letter saying it was a 40 zone and i was doing 50 needless to say nothing ever came off it

you 'should' be fine

if you changed lanes then its difficult for the average speed camera to get a reading!

Don't worry about it, the average speed cameras only work if the speedlimit doesn't change between cameras. Almost definite that last camera won't be operational.

Mike.

Why are you doing 80-85 anyway, simple advice slow down or take the rap
Pete

Because it said national speed limit! So assumed was the end of the camera section!

Dannyd said

if you changed lanes then its difficult for the average speed camera to get a reading!

you reckon!?

it is quite simple. the signs clearly indicate 50mph and they do say 'average speed camera'. if you stuck to this, in the 'controlled speed zone' you are fine. bear in mind, these camera's have quite a range on them. by the time you see it, it's most likely clocked you. no flashes either.

 we all know the way the government like to raise a few extra quid, so keep to the speed limits and your purse and concience will be safer.

If you change lane they cannot do anything.
The camera watches the same lane for the same car.
Change lane and it does register

Doesn't register!

concunningham said

Doesn't register!

prove it

Wooders…..please please accept it, the guys right  far be it from me to tell someone how to break the law :roll:  but if you indeed change lanes a few times the cameras fixed position cannot pick you up, its just to catch the mental drivers who stay in the third lane regardless and blat through roadworks risking all the workers and other peoples lives.

i agree though if it says 50 it means 50, theres too many bunches of flowers tied to old road side furniture in this country with a lost generation of young people and ruined familys

never said he was wrong. wouldn't test a theory like that just because some one on the internet posted it.
 agreed about the flowers.
 i do have fun in my car, but only when circumstances allow. this is still a risk however. we all do it to some degree. be nice to limit that degree as much as possible. i do 99% plodding. 10yrs no claims and cheap insurance thanks to that.

BeCCa said

Because it said national speed limit! So assumed was the end of the camera section!

Since when as national speed limit been 80 mph :dontknow:
I plod along, i'd rather set off earlier and get their on time and in one piece than foot down and not arrive at all
Pete

In my job we all to often see the results of ppl who don't obey the speed limit, I'm not saying I do all the time but there are times and places where not only is speeding unacceptable but also a callous, dangerous act. For example in housing estates like mine where children play on the streets and curbs, around the school zones where children run out from the gates not looking either way and in roadworks where they limit the speeds so that (amongst other reasons) workmen risking their lives to keep our roads in a good safe condition don't get sucked into the path of an oncoming vehicle by the back draft/vacum created by a vehicle which I am sure most of us have experienced when sat on the hard shoulder of the motorway.

I know that kids should be taught to be responsible but at the same time so should drivers.
In 9 Years within the funeral service I have been involved in the funerals of about 8 juvenile road deaths and have colleagues who due to the geographical location of their funeral home attend on average 1 driver/passenger fatality a month on a motorway stretch.

I rant a bit I know but this is because I see the devastation it leaves behind recently we put to rest a motorcyclist who came together with a car again the big contributing factor SPEED.

Another young life gone for a moment of madness, a rush to get home or simply not just paying attention to what is going on.

Better for you to be late in this world rather than you (or someone else) be early in the next

Well said Craig!!!

:clap:
Pete