Speed Camera Fines Queensland

It can take anwhere up to 8 weeks :)

Not that I know personally

Cheers Kev

roughly 4 weeks

It may not have been you it was taking, the Camera system can single out 1 car from a group , you might have seen a flash but it could have been for another car in the same area.

To save all the nervousness why not just go in and Fess Up, pay the fine and you wont have to worry any more.

had my photo taken 7 months ago and still waiting

I had my photo taken 6 months ago in brisbane, doing 72 in a 60 zone - one of those places that is adjacent to the freeway, no houses either side of the road, and you come out of a 100 zone off the freeway (so i was being careless but not a w#nker).

Still waiting for the fine, though maybe with wife and two kids being in a toyota echo he may have just deleted it, dunno, don't understand why i wasn't fined, and i was the only car on the way.

Gday,
I cant believe you havent been critisized for your criminal activities yet???
Does anyone know if DIO is still alive????
Hahahaha

I thought after about 8 weeks you were pretty safe.......But hey, I ve never broken a law so Im only guessing.

A hundred or so bucks for a crapy black and white photo? I would think twice about actually buying it.

LOL

Cheers

Roadside cameras are not fool proof

Near Port Pirie(SA) on Highway 1 they used to set the camera up at Warnertown where the 110kmh zone suddenly becomes 80kmh on a long bend.

At a certain time of day the sun reflects off your numberplate and when the photo is viewed the numberplate shows blank.

I went through there some years ago while inconversation not checking my speed and realised I must've been doing between 90 and 100. Waited anxiousl;y for about a year but nothing came of it. Then a local luminary told me the story. I haven't seen the radar there since 2003.


Cheers

I got potted just before xmas last year got the fine in february.
It was a school zone camera at about 10 minutes before it changed back to normal zone, i was a million miles away brain in neutral and driving through a section i use twice a day every day to get to and from work.
Stupid but easy to do......i was clocked at 47km/h. Luckily for me double demerits started 2 days later.....

Main Roads Queensland sets up their cameras in very predictable and stupid places. The best place to set up a camera is on a one lane road just after a sweeping bend - guaranteed revenue! The next is on a 2 or 3 lane road outside of peak times as the traffic is light.

Any camera set up on multiple lane roads during peak periods is just gambling on the right set of circumstances. If more than one vehicle appears in a mobile speed camera photo then it is impossible to tell which vehicle was speeding. Yet the QLD transport boys regularly send out infringement notices to either both vehicles in the photo or neither vehicle. I suspect that once the photo had been viewed in your case and more than one vehicle appeared they have not bothered.

I got a notice where my vehicle was picked out in the far right lane on the M1 near Beenleigh. In the photo was another car that was in the inside lane and much closer. My rego was hard to make out and his was very clear. I wrote in questioning the photo and somebody replied saying the photo was conclusive.

Using a good contact, I managed to find the owner of the other vehicle, who had paid up on the spot and lost demerit points. We had a chat about the situation, compiled a joint statement and again fronted QLD Transport. I asked how both vehicles could be targetted as speeding (an impossibility using mobile radar) and he asked which vehicle was actually speeding and could they prove it. a mate of mine is a journo and I mentioned his name

To be brief, he got his money and points back and I've heard nothing further.

If speed cameras ran at a financial loss (say, because each camera was hideously expensive to purchase or some other reason) I wonder... would governments still use them...?

Mike Harding