Speed Trap

Navek



Joined: 01/06/2008
Posts: 2656

Message Posted:
19/08/2008 22:23

Just heard of a motorist being stopped for speeding in the Gecitkale Airport area, policeman in a car with hand held Radar Gun, 1st I've heard of them in the TRNC, anyone else seen them, and where.

Hope you don't see them too late

Navek

PtePike



Joined: 20/05/2008
Posts: 2334

Message Posted:
19/08/2008 22:39

Hi Navek,



First TC cops I saw with "hairdryers" was just outside Famagusta on the Nicosia highway about 11 years ago.

pilgrim



Joined: 11/05/2007
Posts: 1404

Message Posted:
19/08/2008 22:58

Often along that road beware.

suntanman



Joined: 18/04/2007
Posts: 721

Message Posted:
19/08/2008 23:00

I've also seen them on the road between Catalkoy & Girne

Navek



Joined: 01/06/2008
Posts: 2656

Message Posted:
19/08/2008 23:22

Maybe I just go too slow for them!!!

Lionheart


Joined: 29/06/2008
Posts: 58

Message Posted:
19/08/2008 23:53

The hand held speed camara was arounnd long before the statics were ever installed. Penalty used to be 90ytl to your local nicks benevolent fund.

TimothyCadman


Joined: 13/12/2007
Posts: 1040

Message Posted:
20/08/2008 01:37

I was clocked by a handheld on the Lefkosia to Famagusta Road. They said I was doing 170km/h. I had to laugh. But that's what they put on the ticket.



Went to Lefkosia Police Station and they were adamant that I pay the 360YTL fine and lose my licence for 12 months.



I argued and argued that I couldn't be driving that fast. They were having none of it. So I told them to take me to court.



Then someone actually read the ticket. It showed the vehicle I was driving was a 1.3ltr Mazda Demio Automatic. Foot to the floor and going down a steep hill it would barely make 150km/h and then it would have blown the engine as the top speed is only 120km/h. So 170km/h was totally out of the question. They finally agreed to wave it.



Just wish they'd taken it further. Would love to have seen that one in the papers. So don't always trust hand held cameras.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
20/08/2008 10:46

Seen them lots of times along by the Jasmine Court.

bootneck



Joined: 23/06/2008
Posts: 242

Message Posted:
20/08/2008 15:27

i got clocked doing 70km heading towards the Karpaz last years, just short of Dipkarpaz

simma



Joined: 03/02/2008
Posts: 346

Message Posted:
20/08/2008 15:40

Hi everyone, I was clocked doing 73 in a 50 in edremit. £142 lira fine and a nightmare waste of time over three days to settle the bill. Don't speed.

John.

murray


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 71

Message Posted:
20/08/2008 16:39

save fuel



leave the car at home



come on a donkey

PtePike



Joined: 20/05/2008
Posts: 2334

Message Posted:
20/08/2008 17:54

"...come on a donkey..."



Now that is specialised.

littlenige



Joined: 24/12/2006
Posts: 3594

Message Posted:
20/08/2008 17:59

go on the donkey get fined as it crapped on the road !!



Shit happens DEAL WITH IT .

MICK THE FISH


Joined: 27/05/2008
Posts: 180

Message Posted:
20/08/2008 21:03

I went through the one on the Famagusta that is after the bridge/Ercan turnoff

I was on my way to the Bayermudu crossing. When I got there and they accessed

the computer to go through the crossing they said I had been caught speeding -

but not as fast as they said. I paid up.



It takes perhaps 8 years to get a telephone line here - the electronic wizadry

clocked me and was accessible to all border crossing computer terminals within

about 20 minutes. Very impressive, a service to be proud of.



Course the ones in the ROC don't work. ha. ha.

PtePike



Joined: 20/05/2008
Posts: 2334

Message Posted:
20/08/2008 21:07

Mick,



I had that in mainland Turkey when I was told I had a fine to pay before leaving the country. No question of corroboration, seeing the evidence or anything a proper justice system would insist on.

kimosh


Joined: 09/08/2008
Posts: 193

Message Posted:
20/08/2008 21:10

yes i was doing 80 on a 65 limit on way to famagusta ... came from no where well seemed to he asked did i speak turkish i said sorry no.. he didnt speak any english ....... and no no no just go ....i was lucky .... about the only bit of luck that happened on this island

kimosh


Joined: 09/08/2008
Posts: 193

Message Posted:
20/08/2008 21:12

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwe beware they wait opposite K.pet petrol garage often with spead gun on the main stretch to Girne 12 ish is dodge time lol

tatlisu4me


Joined: 26/01/2008
Posts: 436

Message Posted:
20/08/2008 21:48

Seen then in quite a few places between Girne - Tatlisu

andysue


Joined: 12/11/2007
Posts: 891

Message Posted:
20/08/2008 21:54

we stayed at turtlebay village last month and i was shocked by finding a police car and two coppers doing a road block every night at the entrance to the site they park their car at the barrier and one holds the radar gun the other pulls you over, if you get pulled you get beatherlized aswell! they got used to seeing my car because we were staying at TBV so we got just a wave and a wink. went to a barbecue at sweetwaterbay a couple of nights before we returned from holliday and was talking to a ex army guy now living in NC and he said its the latest government ploy to get some cash in ! so be warned regards andrew

cyprusishome


Joined: 31/03/2007
Posts: 2381

Message Posted:
20/08/2008 22:21

Have said this before, but a warning to those in a rental car.



If you crash a speed camera the paperwork is sent to rental company. They have your passport details etc and hand them to the police.



Next time you enter the country the fine is waiting for you. The rental company do not pay. The wait in immigration is for the check of such items on computer not a deliberate measure to annoy you.



So just because you have a rental car you can not avoid the speed cameras

pilgrim



Joined: 11/05/2007
Posts: 1404

Message Posted:
21/08/2008 00:47

Got fined 60 pounds doing 50 in 40 limit on road down into Girne, hand held radar.

elko2



Joined: 24/07/2007
Posts: 4400

Message Posted:
21/08/2008 02:13

I did three trials and got three aquittals all on hand held radars on all sorts of technicalities. Now I have five tickets with the fixed cameras, each 20 points. I am waiting for court summonses if they will ever come

ismet

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
24/08/2008 23:29

lots of new cameras being put up in the getcikale area.