Average speed camera - Dunkirk, France?

[Pip1968]

Just came over to the Nordschleife via Calais/Brussels and noticed a new gantry not far from Calais with another on the same autoroute by Dunkirk. I definitely got 'frikin lazered' on the second one. Does anyone know if it is an average speed check and will they chase me at the docks in Calais for today or for ever or only on the day of alleged offence ( if of course one was committed).

Pip

[Shoggy]

Originally Posted by Pip1968

Just came over to the Nordschleife via Calais/Brussels and noticed a new gantry not far from Calais with another on the same autoroute by Dunkirk. I definitely got 'frikin lazered' on the second one. Does anyone know if it is an average speed check and will they chase me at the docks in Calais for today or for ever or only on the day of alleged offence ( if of course one was committed).

Pip

Pip, to my knowledge, there are no av speed traps in France.
If you are over here frequently, I highly recommend investing in a coyote, they work in belgium as well...

[Pip1968]

Hopefully you are right Shoggy. They we'll be a French style ANPR come Big Brother style cameras for monitoring all the terrorists we are welcoming into our country. As both appear to be on the autoroute by the ports of entry. I shall try and get my wife to take a picture of them taking a picture of me

Pip

[Das Chin]

pete

there is one if you carry on down that mway from DK to Calais.

its a big grey box on the concrete in the middle. there is then a second one a bit further down that measures

I thought that French cameras were not on the gantrys but the bix boxes that sit on the middle section between carriageways.

I had heard that Tony fcuking Blair had allowed the French to tap into the DVLA database to issue fine in northern French to speeding brits....the French declined the offer the other way.

fingers crossed you will be ok. I am going over at the end of the month to watch the last VLN of 2013 and driving so will keep an eye out.

DC

[northernjim]

Isn't it true that they need to catch you and fine you, because they cannot send any fine to you once you are back in england

[GregorJP]

On one of my first trips to the Ring, I went down in a 5-car convoy and things got a little excitable on that stretch of road you're talking about, Pip. Maybe it was the joy of being in France. Anyway, I also definitely got lasered (in fact, I think 3 of our group did - it was like we'd all been pap'd) and none of us ever heard anything of it.

[Pip1968]

Finally got the picture I asked my wife to take of the 'speed cameras/spy cameras/Muslim fundamentalist spotter' outside Dunkirk on the autoroute. As said there is a similar set outside Calais.



Pip

[Neil M]

Relax - They look like 2 sets of monitoring cameras, one pointing forwards the other rearwards, used for monitoring traffic flow.
Fixed distance cameras usually work in conjunction with embedded coils, there would be a tell-tale horizontal line across the carriageway, like an expansion joint. It would also have another similar installation approx. 1/4 mile on.

[shimmy]

the Speed Camera warning definitely did not go off for these last visit

[northernjim]

Originally Posted by shimmy

the Speed Camera warning definitely did not go off for these last visit

Are you saying you sped past these to put pips mind at rest shim?