Question: was it a random flash? just confused. the whole motorway was doing 100 and nobody slowed or sped up...
When I was flashed I was doing 97kmh
Worried what to expect in the mail...
So i was driving today to Lucerne and was on a motorway where the limit was 100kmh. It was a path with a long left turn, and 2 cars in front of me were flashed, and then when I approached - was flashed as well. It's a fixed camera.
If that truly was your real speed and the limit was 100 then you have nothing to worry about. The same has happened to me (not in CH though) and I didn't even get a letter.
Possible reasons for random flashing are: mobile phone control, seatbelt control, and camera testing/calibration. It's still annoying as hell though. When that happened to me it was dark and I was blinded for a second.
is it possible that it was just the car in front of me that was flashed in the front, and then flashed again in the rear? i.e. a double flash
and i confused the second flash with being me flashed... is this how cameras in switzerland work?
Double flash used to be the norm. It gave a way to confirm that the radar was correctly calibrated if there were some object of known length on the road surface.
used to be? and now?
The last time I got flashed it was a pinhole camera and guncotton for the flash.
wow mate, thats ancient.
but thanks for input.
As far as I know the cameras will only take a photo of the front of the car. I have been in a car twice while getting blitzed in Switzerland. The first time it was dark and a red flash went off twice in the front. On the second time it was daytime and a (white) flash went off once (on the autobahn near Luzern where they love those blitzers ).
It's possible that the second flash was for the car in front of you. How far were you from the camera?
it was during daytime, and a white flash went off. i recollect it going off for the car in front of me, and then for me.
was about 10m away from the camera and it looked like it was facing my car directly
ps: it was the expressway right outside Lucerne and limit was 100
the estimated time between flashes was 2-3 seconds so i guess its not a double flash case
2-3 sec is a pretty large interval for highway speeds. The only explanation for an interval that large which I can think of is to eliminate the car ahead of you claiming that he was being tailgated.
1/4 or 1/2 sec would seem more like the double flash interval for highway speeds.
well i had a limit set up in my car to not exceed 100, so im pretty confident it was not speeding.
i was told if you're not speeding then cameras dont flash you, hence I'm wondering if it was a random seatbelt/mobile check or i went full retard
what bothers me is that i was told cameras dont randomly flash you in switzerland so...
Who knows. If you were under the limit then you'll be fine.
(especially if the radar trap is out of calibration and every single speeder it caught that day says the same as you)
as far as i know i can only challenge a ticket in court and that's not the best idea
I've been flashed in a tunnel before when going under the speed limit and I didn't receive a ticket. I never did find out why though.
Probably also due to them lowering the speed limit to 80kmh in that section the other day
On two separate occasions I've been flashed in Zurich.
Two lanes each way and plenty of traffic round me all going about 50 in a 50 limit. Some closing the gap and going a bit faster to catch up the car in front. Some lane changing going on.
Two flashes - never heard anything more. Probably confused he cameras. Newish laser ones...
Exactly where did you get flashed? All fix cameras around Luzern that I know of, are in 80 zones...
it was the expressway 2 (e35) on the way from Emmen.
just checked and the limit is 100 there
an app also says there is a speed cam there, and its exactly yhis one that flashed me
At the worst case scenario where you've been flashed doing 97 in a 80 zone (maybe it was temporary and you didn't see the sign), the fine isn't going to be huge (100-ish francs) an there won't be any extra proceedings, just a bog standard fine through the post.
You could try to challenge it but it rarely works out and the cheapest option is just to grit your teeth and pay up.
As I said, that's the worst case scenario so I wouldn't sweat it.
Were you going the right way in the tunnel?