I often keep a look out for unmarked police cars, one good to spot one is extended wing mirrors on most as they now have lights in them.

They do drive around in some odd cars, skoda estate in green on M11 cambridge to standsted and then a silver mondeo from standsted to M25 start.

Don't not think it should be allowed as some have trapped drivers into driving faster.

 

I know there are ways of spotting them as mentioned but the irony of that statement made me laugh

Anyway, wot C7ble said

(about cameras/cars, not beancounters with a Power Ranger fetish. Well, that as well actually)

 

that's my only objection to them

something that has happened to me and a tactic I have observed

I'm wise to it now

mirrors mirrors mirrors!!!

watch for the car that you overtook a few seconds ago pull out and start to pace you

that's how it starts - far more often than them chasing you from a standing start

 

I think unmarked cars are much better than speed cameras - but I would say that as I'll be driving an unmarked car this afternoon




You would be amazed at just how much discretion you will - generally - get from the driver of an unmarked car as opposed to a speed camera ..... unless of course you are driving like a clown on your mobile.

 

Blimey, mobiles are getting feature-packed these days

 

Cameras have their place - there is one on the A road between M40 and MK, can't remember the name of the road, just by a nasty junction. It forces people to slow down (they either know its there or see it) to try to make the junction safer.

Generally though a marked/unmarked car is better picking people up for driving standards etc.

 

It used to be that they were all Omegas (at least round here), and it also used to be that the Omegas were about the only cars with the blue HID headlights so you could spot them a mile off in the dark.

I still slow down when I see a car with HIDs.

 

Very true.

A situation where this wasn't the case is on the A56 in Timperley-some old guy got knocked down and died at a speed camera location-the coroner said the speed camera was a cause of the accident as the driver had momentarily taken concentration off the road and towards their speedo. As a result the camera was removed.

I am led to beleive thet no more speed cameras are to be introduced until the Govt has reviewed them.

 

Yes saw that one as well, pulled a smart car

I must admit I'm paranoid about unmarked cars, there's a lot on the M11, and yes mainly Omega types

 

Camera's used for the right reasons in the right place work - there's no denying that.

So unmarked cars?

Well last week I would have said

But on Wednesday I encountered one

Came off the M62 J8 headed round the roundabout going south to Widnes. As it comes off the roundabout and opens up to NSL dual carriage way I nailed. Before I knew it I was VTECing in 3rd ready for 4th

Some 300 metres back a black Vectra pulls out from the queue of traffic I just blasted past and some lovely blue lights start flashing on the grill.

I slow up with out using the brakes so it doesn't look like I know I'm driving like I stole it

He eventually catches up and pulls along side.

I'm already calculating the fine and insurance costs, whilst looking for a safe spot to pull in

He waves at me and gestures for me to slow down. I nod obligingly and carry on at the NSL.

Phew!

Funny thing is all the muppets I blasted past now catch up and tail gate him
One donkey even tried to undertake him

Lucky escape from a plod that either didn't properly clock my klepton range or was sympathetic to Vtec

The Moral - its all a risk