Photo radar...

[metallicat]

This is not an anti-photo radar thread at all, so please don't make it one. I just want to know what the lowest speed is that you've gotten a ticket for, based on the speed limit. So if the speed limit was 50, and you got one for 65, that is what I am interested in.

I think I got one today for 8 over the limit in a 50 zone (I looked at my speed as I passed him, was going about 58 in a 50, friend said he saw the flash), but I didn't think that was even possible. Anyone want to share their photo radar ticket speeds?

[flip]

I believe the limit is 10 over the speed limit with 11 over warranting a ticket.

I also think it is a standardized limit. (at least in Calgary)

[4X4]

Pretty sure that it has a bit to do with 10% over the limit. Maybe not 10%, but around that number. So going 33 in a playground zone will get you a ticket as will 55+ on a side road as well as 300kph on Deerfoot.

[Sylvanfan]

Originally Posted by oilers_fan

This is not an anti-photo radar thread at all, so please don't make it one. I just want to know what the lowest speed is that you've gotten a ticket for, based on the speed limit. So if the speed limit was 50, and you got one for 65, that is what I am interested in.

I think I got one today for 8 over the limit in a 50 zone (I looked at my speed as I passed him, was going about 58 in a 50, friend said he saw the flash), but I didn't think that was even possible. Anyone want to share their photo radar ticket speeds?

Yeah, wait until you get the ticket! That way you'll know what you got it for. I've been nailed about 3 times in St.Albert on various streets for going 62 in a 50 zone. So I think the 11 over and you get the ticket is about right. Although I wish they would put them in school zones and set it to 5km/h tolerance. Than I'd think that Photo Radar was actually trying to make the streets and traffic safer than just make money.

[Jayems]

[Berger_4_]

I'm just wondering...do photo radar tickets affect your insurance at all? I've heard they don't because they can't identify who is driving. But that's just what I've heard from friends, so I've never been a hundred percent sure. Not that there's any chance of me getting a photo radar in Camrose, where there is only one brown radar van that has 4 spots it cycles through.

[flip]

Originally Posted by Berger_4_

I'm just wondering...do photo radar tickets affect your insurance at all? I've heard they don't because they can't identify who is driving. But that's just what I've heard from friends, so I've never been a hundred percent sure. Not that there's any chance of me getting a photo radar in Camrose, where there is only one brown radar van that has 4 spots it cycles through.

This is 100% true. You do not get demerit points for photo radar. Hence the constant argument about it only being a cash cow and not preventing speeding.

[metallicat]

Originally Posted by Berger_4_

I'm just wondering...do photo radar tickets affect your insurance at all? I've heard they don't because they can't identify who is driving. But that's just what I've heard from friends, so I've never been a hundred percent sure. Not that there's any chance of me getting a photo radar in Camrose, where there is only one brown radar van that has 4 spots it cycles through.

No, it does not affect your insurance, or get you demerits.

[jayswin]

I was told by my insurer that they don't affect your insurance, because, like you said, they don't know for sure who was driving.

[flip]

echo

[chid]

I have only been caught once *knock on wood* by photo radar and I was going 12 over. (62 in a 50 zone)

[GreatWhiteEbola]

Originally Posted by Jayems

The pleas for not turning this into an anti-photo radar thread have been thrown out the window...or door...

So I will add my $0.02...Photo radar is the bane of my existence!!1!1!

Slowest... 12 kph over
Fastest....30 kph over
most paid in one year over $1000.00

I will just add I have never been stopped by a cruiser for speeding, never in my entire 15 year driving career.

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by flip

I believe the limit is 10 over the speed limit with 11 over warranting a ticket.

I also think it is a standardized limit. (at least in Calgary)

That is correct, unless they changed it in the last couple of years. I heard the exact same thing from a friend's dad who is a police officer.

[metallicat]

Originally Posted by hulkrogan

That is correct, unless they changed it in the last couple of years. I heard the exact same thing from a friend's dad who is a police officer.

The reason I created this thread, is because I was shocked that I may have gotten a ticket so low, and the fact that a co-worker told me he paid just last month a ticket for 6 over. I was surprised by this because a photo radar van operator told me it was 15 over before a ticket got issued.

[Dan02]

Originally Posted by Jayems

lol at the crazy ass.

[Dan02]

Originally Posted by GreatWhiteEbola

Slowest... 12 kph over
Fastest....30 kph over
most paid in one year over $1000.00

I will just add I have never been stopped by a cruiser for speeding, never in my entire 15 year driving career.

See i seem to be ding'd for every minor infraction in the book.

Expired plate, was out of town when it expired and was driving to the registry at the time to renew it, fortunately i got off.

Expired/no insurance twice. Once was driving parents car didn't know the insurance card had expired, still insured just old card, got off. Second took the insurance into the house for some reason and forgot to put it back into the car(paid this one)

1 well earned speeding ticket in my younger days, in my defense it was 3am on Saturday, I was sober and there wasn't a sole on the highway.

1 alledgedly Illegal U-turn(should have fought this one but didn't)

1 failure to come to a complete stop at a stop sign.(no i didn't blow through it, slowed down just not a complete stop and someone crapped in the officers cornflakes)

related to first expired insurance tag, the whole reason i got pulled over was cause the cop said i was speeding, doing 70 in a 50 apparently, the truth of the matter was i might have been doing 55 tops, told the cop as much and that he would be seeing me and my friend in court so he decided to let me off with a "warning"

But i have not managed to acquire 1 photo radar ticket over 8 years now.

[ken0042]

My two photo radar tickets have been 65 in a 50, and 117 in a 100.

The 65 in a 50 I just paid it. The 117 in a 100 I pled not guilty. (I did have a legitimate defense.) But on the day of court I was so ill that I decided I would rather pay it than get up and drag myself downtown. Not sure what happened but I was found not guilty even without showing up. Maybe the cop didn't show up; maybe the judge looked at it and thought I didn't deserve a ticket.

[HotHotHeat]

I heard this morning on the news that officers are now taking city work trucks out and wearing construction clothes (coveralls, high ves vests, hard hats) and setting up bogus construction zones, then posing as a traffic 'slow-down & stop guy' to nail people if they go over 50 km/h by him.

The really nice part? They charge double fines in construction zones.

Serve and protect boys, serve and protect.

[CaramonLS]

Friend of mine said had one for 34 in a 30 zone. I didn't actually see the ticket, so I'm not sure if he was exaggerating or not.

[ken0042]

Originally Posted by fotze

What, did a bumble bee fly in the window causing you to speed up? A gang of murders was following you? You had to take the dump of a century?

No, somebody cut me off, forcing me to change lanes very abruptly and directly away from the camera. Not sure what that would have done to my lateral speed vs. the speed in which I was moving away from the camera. In the photo you could see the guy pretty much beside me, and my car's body roll looked like I was about to flip.

In the maneuver I did hit the throttle to ensure I maintained control; as my car was RWD. So doing a few km over the limit to avoid a crash on Deerfoot seems like a better result.