Hey all,s orry to ask another 1 of these questions but. I was traveling towoards a normal gatso radar. Flash the 1 side of it, on the other side of the road. Iv been passed it loads of times and its neva gone off. But this time i went past and it flashed. Now i dont know if it got me or is a warnin, cause iw as under the impression normal gatsos could only get u if there ur own side facin away from u, as they get u wen ur goin past them.

Any ideas if it has? Thanks

Why the txt spk? You've got more than 160 characters to play with here!

Gatsos can be switched between towards, away or bidirectional modes (see the red knob in the picture below). Most are "rear-facing" so they only catch you moving away from them. However, it may be that this unit has been misconfigured. It probably won't have had you anyway, you'd be too far past it by the time it triggers.

I like the speed range 13-155 mph...
Sadly i cant get 157 out of my yaris... and the tr4's even slower
any one got some nitros oxide kits?


Oh I forgot speed kills and you turn to dust at 101mph

what you will probably find is if a GATSO goes off when driving towards it, they have a radar and counter in, but no camera. when a camera is live they are set to take pictures one way only, without the camera they cant distinguish what way the offending vehicle is traveling.

lol sorry about the text speak, 'm just lazy and am so used to using it from chatting to friends on msn.

Thanks alot all for your reply, im sure you all hate it when you see another "am i caught?" thread, so am greatfull for the replys

I didn't think i'd been done as my New road angel never went off, and iv never known gatso's to catch you going towoards them, but theres always little doubt in the back of your mind.

Thankyou

You mean one of these?

yep....

eXOBeX... That is a mighty fine collection of gatsos that you have in your bedroom.... You dont fancey traveling down south and collecting round here!

LOL! Not my bedroom. A mate of mine works for a civil engineering firm, these are the ones that were used during construction works. Once the road was finished, the Gatsos were ripped up and eventually sold.

I tried coaxing him to whip the lid off and take pictures of the insides, but he didn't dare!

By the way, if anybody's bored and looking for something to do...
...can you guess what it is yet?

A Gatso chainsaw??!!

Hi all,could anybody tell me what the outcome was to this predicament when the gatso went off whilst driving towards it,as i have just been flashed heading towards my local one.I am pretty sure it is a live camera,so would it be possible to fine me etc as i thought it was illegal to flash oncoming traffic due to it being potentially dangerous to the oncoming driver.ps.can they pick up your speed when oncoming? by the way i was doing 38mph in a 30mph zone.Cheers.

Er, Umm.
Methinks the DeWalt tool, is for fine tuning Gatso equipment. lol ;-)

Me too, anyone know if the one pointing downhill on the A82 is active, it flashed me heading uphill towards it in the crawler lane!

Cheers

Mark

I set these off regularly on my bike when on the opposite carriageway. What I have noticed is that there appears to be a 'lag' and the flash appears as I'm alongside them so no chance of getting my picture (not that it matters with no forward facing plate) However, a car is much more receptive to Radar and the flash may appear much sooner!

Guys- you are all ok. Gatso Type 24 is only type approved for rear facing photography, and you would find that for SCP to try and use in court would fail.
I set these off all the time, from A82, Edinburgh, A68 all over the place and never NIP'd.
OTS

Erm, no they're not.
They also have approval for front facing use in the attended actively operated mode. It's been like this for a couple of years now. You're still safe with the fixed post installations though. You know, to put this in perspective, the avarage speed cameras are only aproved for use when a vehicle is measured in the same late in both photographs. Move over into an adjacent lane and alough technically they can show an offence being committed the Type approval invalidates the measurement. BUT, why take the chance anyway.
Sama as a Gatso. Even if there's no way they can prove an offence for a vehicle travelling towards tn why take the risk. If it ever got to court you'd lose a lot of valuable life in the meantime and the expense and inconvenience isn't worth the bother.
I know a few members make mention that they set them off deliberately by going too fast in the wrong direction but sooner or later the law will change and without prior warning a valid prosecution could arise.
Don't do it for the hell of it.

Lynzer- a very fairly made point indeed.
Unfortunately the ones I referred to are right at one of the very few safe overtaking spots on what can be an extremely frustrating road, hence why they'll flash if you "get the pin down" to safely clear a truck, caravan or similar on what is a long straight section(s). I totally agree with you it would be pretty daft to trigger them just for the hell or in a built up or similar.
Isnt an actively attended gatso not a type 24 though????? splitting hairs I suppose!!
OTS

This happened to me this morning.

What was the outcome of this

I wonder what the outcome would be going through a gatso at over 155?

I just got flashed on a camera facing toward me. Its a fixed square Gastso type and had the long set of markings on both sides of the raod. It was night and raining, but the second flash went off as I was almost past it. I saw it flash from behind my door/windscreen pillar. There's no way I managed to cover all the white markings as was sub 40 in a 30, so can't see how you could get done fairly. Don't think its the type with the magenta filter and I thought it was illegal to flash in your face without one?

FYI:

Top Gear, Series 1, Episode 1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/show/episodes...1episode1.shtml

"Apparently, if you pass a speed camera fast enough it can't take your picture - or so we heard in a pub once. So we borrowed a Gatso and set about trying to find out if it's true. We got our tame racing driver, Stig, to test the theory. To our surprise, the camera didn't just not catch the car, it didn't even go off. The bad news was, 170mph is the speed you have to do to avoid the little piggybanks"

2 weeks up and no NIP from the forward facing flash.

I've seen GATSO cameras facing me flash when there hasn't even been anything on the road in the opposite direction. It's happened more than once. It makes me wonder whether, flies, bees, wasps, etc can trigger them.

I wouldn't worry too much.

I got flashed by a Gatso couple of days ago. I was driving a hired car on a international license. I had been very worried earlier because I recently realised that my international license is not valid after 1 year, as I have been here longer.
However the fact is that the Gatso flashed as I was driving towards it - ie it was on the other side of the road, so it must have take pictures of the front of the car if it did have a camera and film in it.
But if forward facing pictures cannot be used in court then I think it would not have taken pictures anways - why waste film when you cannot use it in court? Can they really not use pictures of the front of the car in court?
The Gatsos are probably intentionally set to flash approaching vehicles just to scare the driver.

dummy units - wth no camera - do that. much documented on here.

hi guys a due to an number of accidents outside my work place (30 limit) the authorities decided ti install a gatso they consulted villagers as to which way it should face as 2 would be needed to cover each direction. i passed it one day with it facing me and it flashed twice i phoned the scamera operators office they said immediately that there must be a fault and there cash collector repair team were there the next day.
so im reconning they just work one way from behind.

A speed camera has been turned around and so the white lines are now actually behind the camera. I did not realise it had been turned around until I received an NIP and since then, I know that I have travelled down that road three more times (making sure I brake for the lines). Whether this is right or wrong, the NIP that I have is for doing 61 in a 50.

It would not surprise me if I receive more for the other three times that I have driven down that road.

Can anyone advise me on what I can do ?

I'm still within the first two years of passing my test

First of all, start your own thread (or wait for a mod to split this off) - ideally in the speeding forum.

Then do the NIP wizard.

What sort of camera was it - a Truvelo or a Gatso? And did it flash you as you were travelling towards it, or away from it?

61 in a 50 will normally get you the offer of a speed awareness course if not in Scotland allowing you to avoid the points, but this may be cold comfort if another 3 are on the way...