Speeding ticket?

cazziebo

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.

and he's usually right....

HC_2

Conor wrote: »

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...

What do you mean, 'you lot'?

You seem to be generalising somewhat. I certainly haven't driven 1.8 million miles, but I have had a spotlessly clean licence for more than twenty years. Who's to say I won't still have it when I reach 2 million miles?

There are plenty of good drivers around.

goldspanners

Conor wrote: »

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...

this is the generic conor reply i was expecting! :rotfl:
do you just copy and paste from the last post you made?

HC_2

goldspanners wrote: »

this is the generic conor reply i was expecting! :rotfl:
do you just copy and paste from the last post you made?

Are lorries able to exceed the speed limit?

Conor, are you that one that tried to pull out on me on the M4 the other day? Whoever it was thought twice in the end, but instead pulled out on the car behind me into a small gap, making him hit his brakes hard.

goldspanners

HC wrote: »

Are lorries able to exceed the speed limit?

this is a point i keep making to him,most of him millions of miles will be done on motorways at 56 mph.

HC_2

goldspanners wrote: »

this is a point i keep making to him,most of him millions of miles will be done on motorways at 56 mph.

Yes, that's what I thought.

If anyone wants to prove they are a great driver, they should think about RoSPA. They are the elite, as I understand it. (I won't be taking it myself...)

melancholly

to get back to the point, a few months ago i got a lift back from court in a police van that had mobile camera unit written on the side (long story - but i was a witness not a defendent ). anyway, there was no camera in the van but they told me that they just drove it around to make people drive better..... so there's a good chance the OP won't hear anything anyway.

PJB

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printedinuk

The debate about 10% rule, speedometer deviation etc... is quite a difficult one; the exact speed at which speeding motorists are prosecuted differs between forces and the method through which they are detected, e.g., fixed speed camera, mobile speed camera, speed "gun" (the handheld device), video evidence from a calibrated traffic vehicle, average speed camera...

However, one thing is for sure, DO NOT expect to get a few miles for your speedo being inaccurate; that is why they add the 10% (or whatever) in the first place! Most speedometers are in fact designed to provide a reading between about 1 and 3 mph above your actual speed so that car manufacturers can show that they have taken all reasonable steps to avoid them being responsible for a particular motorist speeding (i.e., avoiding liability).

Also, it is my understanding that the Police are not required, by law, to give speeders this leniency; I imagine it is to avoid challenges (in court) to evidence from the speed detection devices. Hence why it differs geographically etc.

In regards to NIPs (Notice of Intended Prosecution), as mentioned earlier, the Road Traffic Act 1988 (including subsequent amendments and provisions) states that a limit of 14 days is provided for the delivery of the NIP, wherever reasonably possible. For example, if the registered keeper details have changed and not been updated with the DVLA then it will, usually, take longer than 14 days for the NIP to reach the person driving at the time of the offence; this is permitted as reasonable, whereas Police administration errors are not!

photome

HC wrote: »

Are you sure?

Everyone I know who's been to speeding school has been done for doing 36 in a 30 (including my husband and my 81-year-old father :rotfl:). Anyone who's been caught doing 37 or more hasn't had that option.

I was told by a traffic cop last week that if I had been doing up to 39 in a 30 I could have gone to the "speeding school", i was going a little faster than that