Just wondering, if a red light camera is facing southbound and a driver is turning from the easterly direction and turns left southbound, is the camera able to capture this driver?
or do right light cameras only catch drivers moving parallel to its direction?
Please link the intersection.
Doubt it, i think they can only capture from direction of travel, for example a car turning east or west from a southbound or northbound direction when the camera is facing south or north. You need to be passing the camera not coming towards it.
That’s my understanding too. Only triggers from behind the vehicle (in the direction the vehicle was originally travelling) wether it is turning or going straight.
It's the corner or carlingford rd and pennant hills rd, outside carlo court. Someone in front of me turned left from carlingford rd onto pennant hills rd.
The car was not originally in its path but turned left INTO its path
OP the camera at that intersection has been decommissioned for quite a long time
Is there any evidence of its decommissioning
Doesn't appear on this list of current cameras
https://roadsafety.transport.nsw.gov.au/speeding/speedcamera…
It shouldn't matter if you don't break the road rules.
So you never break any traffic regulations.
Congratulations.
I didn't say that at all.
If/when I do transgress, I just cop the penalty. I certainly don't seek out where cameras are, or what they focus on, to base my driving decisions on.
The Detector cables connected to the camera are in the roadway (you can usually see where a saw-cut has been made in the road & filled with emulsion). If the car turned from the side street, they won't have driven over the detectors, so won't have set off the camera.
Cameras are also positioned to photograph the rear of the car at the moment it goes through the red light. If the car was entering from the side of the camera, even if the camera did somehow trigger, a picture of the side of the turning car would be useless in identifying it.
you can usually see where a saw-cut has been made in the road & filled with emulsion
This is becoming less common. Loops are most often installed underneath the top layer of new pavement so they are not visible from the surface. They use this technique because it decreases water ingress to the pavement via the saw cutting.
With fixed speed cameras is usual to replace the pavement on a routine basis, prior to the standard expected life of the pavement, and to replace the loops at that time. Ie o enemy expected to last 10 years, they replace at 8yrs.
Those detector cables are for the traffic lights to detect cars waiting at the lights.
Not the camera!
Depends in configuration of camera
Dont assume anything!
It can catch turning drivers from the lane the camera is in. A few posts here already where people have been caught turning right or left at an intersection.
What I don’t think they can catch is oncoming turning drivers. But I have no evidence to back that up, I’ve just never seen a fine with a photo attached of the vehicle in the oncoming positions. They typically need to show that the light is red in the photo. They can’t really show a light is red for a driver entering from any other direction.
Typically, the pickup loop that triggers the camera can be seen on the road, in the lane, on the intersection side of the pedestrian crossing… talked about them recently here, with examples