Speeding ticket?

goldspanners

*rumble rumble*
is that conor i hear stirring?
if it is you best run because he will tell you to read your highway code, pay more attention, blah blah blah. tell you how crap a driver you are.

HC_2

goldspanners wrote: »

*rumble rumble*
is that conor i hear stirring?
if it is you best run because he will tell you to read your highway code, pay more attention, blah blah blah. tell you how crap a driver you are.

:rotfl:

Even I've heard of Conor, and I don't frequent the motoring board!

Quentin

HC wrote: »

You normally hear within two weeks.

It is the cars keeper who has to be informed within 14 days.

If you are driving a company car/lease car etc, then you can hear about it much later.

goldspanners

HC wrote: »

:rotfl:

Even I've heard of Conor, and I don't frequent the motoring board!

he is a bit like god, no matter where you are if you do something wrong he will see.(well he thinks he is anyway)

HC_2

goldspanners wrote: »

he is a bit like god, no matter where you are if you do something wrong he will see.(well he thinks he is anyway)

Lol!

Is he IAM, RoSPA gold etc.?

DrFluffy

G-G wrote: »

Usually you get a 10% discretion, so, 33mph you may get away with.

Not always... I got done a few years back doing 32 in a 30!!!

goldspanners

HC wrote: »

Lol!

Is he IAM, RoSPA gold etc.?

no better than that, he is a lorry driver!

HC_2

DrFluffy wrote: »

Not always... I got done a few years back doing 32 in a 30!!!

Perhaps it depends on which police authority you come under. But apparently:

...the formula recommended by the Association of Chief Police Officers: ie, set at a little above the limit plus 10 per cent plus 2 mph...

from a Telegraph article.

Conor_3

goldspanners wrote: »

no better than that, he is a lorry driver!

And one who, despite doing 2000 miles a week for most of the last 15 years having covered the thick end of 1.8 million miles since I started driving and going all over the UK, has yet to get a single point for speeding, parking or anything at all. Kind of makes you wonder what some of you lot are doing when you're driving...

As to the OP...

The van doesn't have to be visible and they usually park them in places where you only get to see them once its too late. The speed guns in these vans have a range of hundreds of metres (a mile comes to mind for some reason). Doing 36/37, I doubt anything will happen though with the ACPO guidelines and the average car speedo overreading.

As for the speed limit - if it is above 30 in an urban type environment, there has to be repeater signs. There weren't so its a 30 limit. If its a rural area with no street signs, there has to be repeaters for any speed under the national speed limit otherwise it is the national speed limit. Remember that next time you're unsure and you won't go far wrong.

HC_2

goldspanners wrote: »

no better than that, he is a lorry driver!

I can 'hear' your respect and esteem for him coming through in every word you type