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Originally Posted by Lady Jane
One of my Mountie friend says exactly the same thing when doing radar. In trouble areas, they even know, because they are always called to those spots, the distance between two posts and can calculate in their minds the time it takes to travel those two points. Pretty accurate and the radar confirms it. They also use that same technique for aerial surveillance using those large yellow markers on the pavement. Not sure how that works in a horse pursuit... 
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You'd never get a conviction in Ontario with this technique (the airplanes maybe, but its rarely used by the OPP), I've estimated speeds in Criminal Court with pursuits and dangerous driving types of charges but for a speeding ticket they wouldn't except an officers opinion on speed. That might go to margin or error, speeding fines in Ontario are incremental so if I estimated the speed was say 30KMH over the limit, the difference in fines between 20KMH and 25KMH over the limit is substantial.