kingrollo
Guru
Low lying sun - blind the view of the reg plate of this lorry - is there any way of getting the reg plate ?
View: https://youtu.be/2hJTK1BHV1U?si=XrmFwsz16kGn7oN4
View: https://youtu.be/2hJTK1BHV1U?si=XrmFwsz16kGn7oN4
IME, unless the registration plate is clear, plod is not going to take any action. I have had it a couple of times where Cheshire police have declined to take action, because of a water droplet being in the wrong place on the lens, or like you cycling into a low winter sun has created a loss of definition.
The best solution here will be to ride off road in future.😬Cannot see number plate but that was a nice tree.
Kidding aside, yeah this is one of those "just let it go" things unfortunately. You'll spend a lot of time chasing it without a positive result at the end.
I know of a police officer who sits Infront of a screen 5 days a week to review camera footage of incidents just like this.As has been suggested, it was just 'one of those irritating things' as a part of life's rich pattern.
Unfortunately, nationwide the peelers are so over committed and under established that pursuing this will be pointless as unreadable number plates are well down on their list of priorities unless it could be proven to be a contributory factor in a serious incident.
If you make a copy of the original, and work on the copy, leaving the original intact, to try and get an image of the plate, how would that affect things?If you enhance, or more correctly "alter", the image you negate it's value as evidence. It sadly does nothing more than open up a handy bundle of defences for the offender, so except in the most serious or crimes where the risk can be justified (or used to progress an enquiry rather than for evidential value in its own right) that wouldn't pass go.