Re: Can one be prosecuted from a Speed Camera if your numberplate is too dirty?
 

I thank you!

Re: Can one be prosecuted from a Speed Camera if your numberplate is too dirty?
 

My wife was done by a fixed, when she came home that night i looked at her plate and it was about 1/4 inch thick in dirt, just a black mess, completely unreadable. I told her not to worry about it.
About 10 days later the nip came through so we asked for the fotos. it was as clear as day, dont know how it just was. so hopefully he'll get done.

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Wow. Food for thought.

More amusing still, I thought those cameras had been turned off, as recently (well...about 3 months ago)an ambulance sped past them coming the other way, and the camera didnt flash.

Re: Can one be prosecuted from a Speed Camera if your numberplate is too dirty?
 

Similarly I got done recently for forgetting to pay my London congestion charge.

The front numberplate was covered in snow from driving through a bizzard on the way down the motorway. Not even visible that there was numberplate on the car 'cos the whole front bumper was covered. So I actually pointed it out and joked with a colleague "so does that mean I don't have to pay my congestion charge today?", then got home that night, crashed with a bottle of wine, and completely forgot about it.

The photo's that came with the penalty notice were an infra-red photo of the front numberplate and showed numberplate background in white and lettering in black, clear as anything, and of course a normal photo of the back of the car which had no snow on it anyway.

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A gasto "Camera" is an empty box with a shelf in it. On the shelf there can be nothing, or a radar unit with a flash, or that and a camera as well. So you can get no flash, a flash but no photo, a flash and a photo, or a flash and a photo taken by a camera, but the film has run out.

Plenty of websites out there dedicated to explaining all the different cameras and how they work if you are interested.

Re: Can one be prosecuted from a Speed Camera if your numberplate is too dirty?
 

And around here they tend to swap the units around on a regular basis, so you never know which one has the camera and which has the dud.

Re: Can one be prosecuted from a Speed Camera if your numberplate is too dirty?
 

Recently round here the re-surfacing guys have been busy and wiped out most or all of the road markings at several cameras. I guess now the money's going to the chancellor the council has no incentive to re-paint the road markings.

Re: Can one be prosecuted from a Speed Camera if your numberplate is too dirty?
 

I've noticed similar around Reading. As for the dirty number plates, it seems to be mostly BMW's that I see with non visable plates. Strange.

Re: Can one be prosecuted from a Speed Camera if your numberplate is too dirty?
 

The reps who work for my Dad's place seem to get done on a regular basis for unreadable plates. Doing a couple of hundred miles a day in this s**t it doesn't take long to get caked.

If the scameras don't notice then it can't have much effect on revenue generation, why do the plod care?

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I think it'd have to be pretty filthy for a camera to not read it.

Liz's SV plate was unreable to the naked eye due to salt crud on it after a weeks worth of commuting, I took a pic of it with the flash on and you could make out the letters easily enough.