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Post by widge on May 23, 2018 20:54:01 GMT
Hi I live in France so things might be different here anyway, but I wondered if anyone new what the situation is with handing over dash cam footage to the police, on the one hand I would be very willing to hand over footage to the police if I witnessed a serious accident, but although I believe that I am a fairly responsible driver and drive within the capabilities of the car and road and weather conditions, I cannot say that I never break the law, even if it is things like exceeding the speed limit while passing a vehicle to limit the time that I am on the wrong side of the road etc.
I wouldn't want to hand over the SDcard to aid the police only to discover that I am also giving them evidence of traffic violations that I may have done.
I wondered if anyone else had any thoughts on this?
Dave
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Post by Mb2t on May 23, 2018 21:13:13 GMT
I would be weary of giving such info to the police, especially if it contains gps data...
I of course always drive withing the law...(and i do not have a dash cam...)
May i also say that the French are horible drivers...they have not heard of 'personal space'. Lucky i have a tow bar (i.e. the one behind me will have more damage in case...)
M.
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Post by Ravasher on May 24, 2018 6:53:00 GMT
You can download it onto a CD or DVD. I had an incident a few weeks back and put it on a cheap USB
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Post by unclebob on May 24, 2018 7:23:29 GMT
It’s a double edge sword....do the police prosecute the bad or dangerous driver or you for doing 2mph over the limit ? I have the GPS turn on in one car but turn off in the van ....guess my answer is never give the footage to the police unless they can guarantee your immunity.
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Post by Ravasher on May 24, 2018 8:05:00 GMT
It’s a double edge sword....do the police prosecute the bad or dangerous driver or you for doing 2mph over the limit ? I have the GPS turn on in one car but turn off in the van ....guess my answer is never give the footage to the police unless they can guarantee your immunity. I’ve switched off the speed function on mine. I’ve had one person prosecuted when he crashed into my car and demanding money a few months ago. One still in the process when a driver slammed his brakes on whilst on the M1 roadworks section |
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Post by phaeton on May 25, 2018 10:15:49 GMT
Surely you would not hand over the full SD card you would only hand over footage relevant to the situation.
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Post by bothwellbuyer on May 29, 2018 5:19:23 GMT
It reminds me of truck drivers with the old paper tacho card......
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Post by Hoovie on May 31, 2018 7:00:38 GMT
I would think that footage without GPS info embedded into may not be very useful as that would remove proof and both time and location of an incident.
Speed however can always be calculated if required so removing that from the info is likely irrelevant.
I would be minded NOT to provide a third-party footage of driving where it could be turned back on myself ... (Not that I could anyway as both my dash cams are safely located in their boxes and not in a vehicle anyway! Doh!)
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Post by philip42h on May 31, 2018 7:49:04 GMT
This article - can-police-seize-camera-footage - suggests that following an incident the police can lawfully request or seize any dashcam footage that they may find useful ... |
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