Thread: Speed cameras - fixed locations

Have you snapped one of those little green boxes.

Where are they, Bangkok area?

Originally Posted by mykthemin

Where are they, Bangkok area?

just north east of saraburi on the main highway

and on the ubon road right near the overpass of the intersection of the korat and wang nam keow intersection

gps co ordinates should work with google maps

Originally Posted by baldrick

just north east of saraburi on the main highway

Lots beyond there as you travel NE up highway 2 to Korat. I've recieved 3 nice letters over the last year. 400 baht a pop.

I assume they are radar based? What frequency do we use in Thailand?

Are radar detectors available here, as in UK?

Originally Posted by Norton

400 baht a pop

mine have all been 500 baht for the last 2-3 years ? do you get pensioner discount

Originally Posted by baldrick

do you get pensioner discount

Must do. Car is registered in wife's name. You must be paying the farang price.

Originally Posted by baldrick

I have been picking up speed camera tickets on a regular basis - got 2 in 1 day in october

Did you pay both? I thought there was a rule in Thailand that you could only get done once on the same day. Or is that an old wives tale?

Originally Posted by baldrick

14.596127, 101.040007

this one has boxes in both directions - little green mailbox type structures - though on tuesday heading north east I had a good look at the one facing me was empty , but I have been snapped a few times heading in the south west direction

I'll be driving past there in a couple of weeks. Where are the cameras exactly? In the central reservation?

I saw a camera staring into my face a few days ago on Mitrapap Road. I didn't note the exact location but I think it was in Klang Dong, between Pak Chong and Muak Lek, approximately here: https://www.google.co.th/maps/place/14°45'28.6"N+102°02'30.8"E/@14.6359993,101.2522791,299m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d14.757933!4d 102.041901

There was a sign saying speed limit 90kph and I was doing 100kph. I might get my first ever Thai speed ticket.

up on that pedestrian overpass ? that has gotten norton before , but I don't think it has worked for a year or 2

Originally Posted by baldrick

up on that pedestrian overpass ? that has gotten norton before , but I don't think it has worked for a year or 2

It was at face level at an angle facing the outside lane (heading west), located at the rear corner of the upright pillar in the miiddle.

Its only 500 baht Nev
Spare a thought for LD

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Its only 500 baht Nev
Spare a thought for LD

OK. I'll change the name in my log book to Latin Pollit Dancer.

A bit of basic info on speed cameras being I speed all the time. I have physically looked at the camera. The field of view on the cameras they us is very narrow. If you are on a big highway and you want to drive fast, haul ass in the farthest left lane. The Cameras are pointed to catch the right lane and maybe half of the next. I routinely blaze up and down AH1 from BKK to Lampang and have never gotten a ticket and I sustain speeds of 120 to 140. In areas of an overpass camera just slow down a bit. The camera sensors activate at appx 100 meters out.

My wife is part of some Thai road camera group and they have detailed pictures where they are all up and down the Highway from Lampang to Korat being I drove that frequently

Originally Posted by OhOh

Am I correct the school limit is effective after the red line?

the red/ochre markings are worn warning strips

to determine the speed limit

take one live chicken ........

It's a wonder I havent been caught. I assume the speed limit when not posted is 100 kph. Every time I ask a Thai I get a different answer.

Originally Posted by Hugh Cow

It's a wonder I havent been caught. I assume the speed limit when not posted is 100 kph. Every time I ask a Thai I get a different answer.

Oh its posted. But sign is usually hidden by a tree or a road side food shack...

I laugh when I see the variance in the speedcamera signs - some areas they are metal and some areas are faded plastic - you can see how the allowances were spent in the different police districts

Originally Posted by Hugh Cow

Every time I ask a Thai I get a different answer.

it is 90 kph on highways outside city limits - chonburi motorway is 120

Originally Posted by Hugh Cow

It's a wonder I havent been caught.

have a look at your front numberplate - mine is now nearly all white

I want one of the James Bond license plate set ups that rotate around. Cops here would never figure it out.

Just a quick question. Do the speed cameras here take the photo from the rear or the front. I was doing 90 yesterday evening and got flashed from the front. Dunno if it was a speed camera or not.

^ Don't know about that, but you see a lot of cars with faded and illegible rear number plates.

A mate has one on his Fortuna. He says that once the number became illegible he stopped getting speeding tickets, which he picked up regularly before. He's obviously in no rush to get the plate fixed.