Just an update to everyone on this.
July 27th is when I passed this speed camera. It is now 11th September.
6 weeks later and no ticket so it looks like they don't get you from the other side of the road.
If I come home later and find a letter in the post today of all days after posting this I give up on life 
They have 14 business days + postage days after the incident in order to get the speeding ticket to you....
If it comes after that then its too late for them
That van wouldn't be taking a reading from the other side of the road as traffic on his side would be getting in the way surely...
The first correspondence is never the fine , they will ask you who the driver was etc and then you send that back to them , then you get the fine and the choices . The process is called the Notice of Intended Prosecution and has as the above poster states 14 days (Not business days either) from the date of the offence , if it is posted then allowance is made for postage .
But the NIP is sent to whoever is registered owner of the vehicle on the DVLA's records so if you were driving a company car, got clocked by a speed camera but didn't get the NIP given to you by your place of employment until 6 months later, so long as your place of employment received the NIP within 14 days of the offence you'd still have to cough up the fine and take the points / lesson in how to avoid being speed taxed.
Equally if you have just bought the car 2nd hand and the registered owner details have not yet been updated on the DVLA's system but the police sent the NIP out within the 14 day period to what they believed was the registered owner but turns out to be the previous owner then you as the new owner still have to cough up the fine and take the points / lesson in how to avoid the speeding tax.
Basically the Police only have to show that they sent out the NIP in a timely fashion and it is not their duty to hunt down who was driving the vehicle in this time frame. As stated if they fail to do this then you get let off the hook.
I managed to avoid what i thought was going to be a NIP about a month ago, either the camera isn't switched on, there's no film in it, they couldn't get me because there were no lines in the lane i was in or i managed to get my speed down in time, either way if a NIP were to land on my doormat tomorrow all i have to do is fill in the appropriate bits of info along with a cover letter stating they've run out of time so they can keep their NIP*
*The precise way to phrase this can be found on the Pepipo forum - very useful with its info and real time case studies on speeding, fines, points, the police and the law.
