does there have to be a speed camera sign on a road warning you there is a camera ahead?

Answer 1

No. In fact, in some areas they have been known to disguise the camera like trash cans and mailboxes.

Its all about the $$$.

Answer 2

Nice question! The answer as i am sure is infact yes. It is an offence on behalf off the local police authority and borough/city council not to put signage up.
You may have noticed some roads have become red routes. This is because they have a high number of fatalities in a short space of time. You may notice that on these routes their is quite often a mobile camera. Signage can be erected to warn of static or mobile cameras. That is why the signs never state the exact location of the camera. Also these cameras can be to warn you of cameras as in congestion charging, traffic light cameras and the dreaded SPEED CAMERAS.
Can i assume you have been flashed by a camera. If so the maximum fine is £60 and 3 points on your licence. If however you can prove that there was no signage and the location of the camera was not obvious you have a very valid reason to fight for mitigating circumstances.

Answer 3

Here in the UK there has to be sufficient warning of speed camers (hell, they post all the locations on a website for chrissakes!)

BUT what they also do is put speed camera signs up, and the speed camera doesn't appear until ten miles further down the road!

Answer 4

There are of course two types of camera in the UK. With fixed position cameras there are requirements to have signs in advance and then to have the camera in bright yellow or something.

Then there are also mobile cameras (such as those ones in a van etc) and they do not require advance notice on the road. They instead will advertise within local press displaying their position daily.

Answer 5

I'm surprised at many of the answers from the UK.
In my area we have "mobile" cameras operated out of the back of a parked police van........no prior warning.
Is it not up to the driver to know the speed limit for the road and the type of vehicle he/she is using?
A pretty poor defence would be to say that you hadn't been warned not to break the law.

Answer 6

Is this in UK or US? In Britain they do not have to put up signs to warn about them but they do have to be visible and painted yellow.

Human rights activists kicked off when the government proposed hiding them to stop people from slamming on the brakes to avoid them. The activists argued that it was infringing our right to privacy or something like that and won the case. So the cameras now all have to be visible and yellow but not sign posted.

Hope this helps

Answer 7

we've % cameras for confident. pay attention of the overhead bridge once you're using at streetlevel, each and every so often they're hidden there yet not all. at streetlevel of Taiping, Perak i imagine, they positioned signal "pay attention of % digital camera", I kept on using 100 and forty-150km/h yet nonetheless no any fines received after a 365 days. as well rushing digital camera, look out for some fake police too. that is a image of a police, human length board placed at some parts at streetlevel. No damage, yet do not get scared and bang into someplace else.

Answer 8

UK reg's state that there must be warnings/signs situated within a 1 mile radius of the camera.

Answer 9

In the UK, if there are cameras there must be warning signs.
Also, if there are warning signs there must be either fixed cameras or regularly-used mobile camera sites close by.

Answer 10

I have discovered the way to combat this - STICK TO THE SPEED LIMIT.

You never know, you might save a life.

One of the most unpleasant things I have had to do as a police officer is inform a family that their loved one has been killed or very seriously injured in an accident caused by someone going too fast.