Speedtraps with no speed signs

[guest2013-1]

There are 3 Speed Limit categories:
Sauce: http://www.mangaung.co.za/docs/National Road Traffic Act.pdf
59 Speed limit
(1) The general speed limit in respect of-
(a) every public road or section thereof, other than a freeway, situated within an urban area;
(b) every public road or section thereof, other than a freeway, situated outside an urban area; and
(c) every freeway,
shall be as prescribed.

i.e. Urban, Outside Urban and Freeway.

Sauce: http://www.transport.gov.za/projects/arrive/speedkills.html
* Public roads in urban areas - 60 km/h
* Public roads outside urban areas which are not freeways - 100 km/h
* Freeways - 120 km/h

Notice the complete lack of 80 km/h anywhere in all of that.

lol yea I know,they make it up as they go because the average joe out there doesn't know these rules (or didn't care to study them)

Even if there's no speed limit signs, you should know you can only go as fast as x. The problem here is, by law, they're required to warn the public of possible speed traps.

 

[davemc]

I am lead to believe that possible speed-trap points were pre-approved and all they had to do was use the pre-approved points.

I think that there are different rules for the placement of permanent and automated speed traps, where the warning is required.

I goes hunting using my google gun ...

 

[davemc]

Blah .. I'll go hunting some other day, I don't feel like it now. Oh look ... a new free game just finished downloading.

 

[kiepie]

WTF, so they expect you to look in your rearviewmirror to check the speed sign on the other side of the road?

You can check it only after they caught you. lol

No. There has to be warnings (with the speed limit) of possible speed enforcement a few km's beforehand.

If they catch you and there's nothing then you don't have to pay

You don't know where this is in the laws, so I can have it with me at the time.

There are 3 Speed Limit categories:
Sauce: http://www.mangaung.co.za/docs/National Road Traffic Act.pdf
59 Speed limit
(1) The general speed limit in respect of-
(a) every public road or section thereof, other than a freeway, situated within an urban area;
(b) every public road or section thereof, other than a freeway, situated outside an urban area; and
(c) every freeway,
shall be as prescribed.

i.e. Urban, Outside Urban and Freeway.

Sauce: http://www.transport.gov.za/projects/arrive/speedkills.html
* Public roads in urban areas - 60 km/h
* Public roads outside urban areas which are not freeways - 100 km/h
* Freeways - 120 km/h

Notice the complete lack of 80 km/h anywhere in all of that.

Thanks for the search, I will go and read up some more!

 

[guest2013-1]

Ill check with my municipality. I know they had to squash like 1mil worth of speeding fines for a new camera without any signs