speed camera at orchard road and bedford road junction?

• miasimpleman

  23 Dec 04, 09:15

  i was driving home last night from a wedding dinner at midnight. was on orchard road turning left into bedford road (where paragon is) to get on the cte.
  
  traffic light was green, i was turning in 2nd gear (20-30km/h), no pedestrians.. but halfway through the turn i had this extremely bright flash from the right side of my front windshield; it was so bright that my friends in the car were quite shocked. was rather puzzled as i was turning in my own lane, had not ran any red lights and was definitely not speeding.
  
  anyone can provide me any info on what may have happened?
• houndy

  23 Dec 04, 09:17

  maybe it was a christmas lighting went wrong.. or some tourist taking a photo with a powerful flash... from what i know, they aint a camera at that area...
• ditzy

  23 Dec 04, 09:19

  The Butterfly Effect.
• imprezaWRXSTi22B

  23 Dec 04, 09:21

  haha. maybe u juz changed the world.
• miasimpleman

  23 Dec 04, 09:30

  what kind of christmas lighting is that... the management should be SUED for giving drivers mini heart attacks . freaking bright flash.. its like having a camera with flash 1m away from your face.
  
  anyways was damn sian when i was driving home last night after the flashing. on leave for the whole of next week.. now this dumb thing is going to bother me for the next month.
• ditzy

  23 Dec 04, 09:33

  If you do no wrong, then no guilty conscience. Tell the truth, it wasn't 20~30km/h on 2nd gear right?
• miasimpleman

  23 Dec 04, 09:37

  eh... was telling the truth. was going slow, cos i read abt the undercovers ops going on in orchard. damn sian because in spite of my added effort in trying to drive safely, i may still get summoned.
  
  you tell me, like that you will sian or not?
  
  ps: ok, i admit, maybe i'm just over worrying... i'm a worrier by nature
• ditzy

  23 Dec 04, 09:38

  I don't know, I've never been flashed at before. Only as a pedestrian.
• miasimpleman

  23 Dec 04, 09:43

  flashed at as a pedestrian? haha.. hope that wasn't too traumatising an experience.
  
  anyways, can't be helped. shit happens, right?
• ditzy

  23 Dec 04, 09:48

  Ok, the term should be high-beamed, not flashed.
• miasimpleman

  23 Dec 04, 09:50

  high-beam = irritating
  
  flashed = criminal, esp if a male flashes a female
  
  big difference, ditzy.. heh.
• ditzy

  23 Dec 04, 09:57

  As a pedestrian jay-walking, I believe the motorist has all the right to high-beam you.
• sbst275

  23 Dec 04, 10:28

  Orchard Rd and Bedford Rd? Only Grange Rd and Somerset Rd then have camera
• Inzaghi

  23 Dec 04, 10:34

  if i rem correctly, traffic police said tat they're sending civilian looking cars in orchard areas to catch offensive drivers...so u never know the car beside u might be a traffic police in plane clothes n non police cars..(car plate not starting w QX, but any normal no starting w SF* etc
  
  so beware
• houndy

  23 Dec 04, 12:24

  Originally posted by miasimpleman:

  eh... was telling the truth. was going slow, cos i read abt the undercovers ops going on in orchard. damn sian because in spite of my added effort in trying to drive safely, i may still get summoned.
  
  you tell me, like that you will sian or not?
  
  ps: ok, i admit, maybe i'm just over worrying... i'm a worrier by nature

  nah it is nothing, dont worry about anything... just worry for the night and sleep it off...
• LazerLordz

  23 Dec 04, 13:30

  Originally posted by Inzaghi:

  if i rem correctly, traffic police said tat they're sending civilian looking cars in orchard areas to catch offensive drivers...so u never know the car beside u might be a traffic police in plane clothes n non police cars..(car plate not starting w QX, but any normal no starting w SF* etc
  
  so beware

  Any method to spot them?
• Inzaghi

  23 Dec 04, 14:11

  Originally posted by LazerLordz:

  Any method to spot them?

  nah dun think so....the cars they used are the same as any civilian cars running on the road..so its impossible to know...u just gotta be careful lor
• houndy

  23 Dec 04, 14:20

  i know but it is under OSA...
• D16Z6

  23 Dec 04, 23:03

  aiyah...it could be xmas decoration lighting lah...
  everyday i pass by there n din notice any camera along the stretch leh...
  or maybe one of the tourist has got a super bright flash camera...ha ha
• miasimpleman

  24 Dec 04, 11:07

  Originally posted by houndy:

  nah it is nothing, dont worry about anything... just worry for the night and sleep it off...

  yeah, sleep really helped get my mind off the incident.
• seenoup

  24 Dec 04, 12:43

  Originally posted by LazerLordz:

  Any method to spot them?

  The cars shld be quite plain-looking....
  
  ....tink , its not their own cars...
  
  ...so shld look sort of like rental cars....
  no mods of any kind, not even rims....no stickers, no parking labels, no bumper stickers, no radio station stickers...blah blah!!