First Time Speeding Ticket Help Needed!!

PsiDOC

Have a look on the forum linked below. Those people specialise in your very predicament.
http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php

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lovethymini

mcduff16 wrote: »

It does my head in when people moan about speed cameras. It`s really quite simply- don`t speed and you won`t get caught in the first place!!!!!!!!!!!!

Define "Speeding".

Speed limits have been on our roads for decades, and can be considered very out of date. If you read the braking distances in the highway code they are so far away from reality it's almost laughable. A modern car can stop in a fraction of the distance quoted.

The problem is inappropriate speed. On a wet day at 3.30pm outside a school, even 20mph could be considered reckless. But on a sunny Sunday afternoon, 35mph would be perfectly safe. In heavy three lane traffic on the M4 70mph may not even be achievable, and definitely not safe, whereas at 3am on a clear night with next to no traffic, cruising along at 90mph would do nobody any harm at all.

We have to move away from the argument that exceeding a specific "speed limit" is a crime, it's just a very easy way for the "powers that be" decide what our loyal police do to avoid doing their real job of catching people driving dangerously.

Sorry for going slightly off topic from the OP but people who moan about speeders, "do my head in!"

Rant over. Carry on!

nomoneytoday

Its a £60 donation to party funds. You can either pay it and get 3 points, or take it to court as is your right.

TOTALLY_SKINT_MARE

my dad went on the "speeding" course to avoid the points and he hi 77 years old!!! the man in the course actually told him that all cars are actually calibrated at 5% higher on the speedometer....so does that mean people arnt actually speeding sometimes????

maninthestreet

Speedometers are often set to err on the side of caution, i.e speedometer reads 70mph, but true speed is 65mph.

Mimi_Arc_en_ciel

Speed limits are there for a reason - whether they are out dated or not, it is not the point - you should not have been speeding in the first place. The speedometer is set higher than the speed the car is actually travelling but that does not mean you can think - oh its a 30, i'll do 35.
Speed cameras do not always have to be in a great big yellow visable box and (im gonna get linched for this) if you did not see a big white van with a big black camera pointing out at you - or a policeman at the side of the road with a gatso - then you clearly wasn't paying attention to your surroundings and DEFINATLEY should not of been speeding - What if a child had run out in to the road? What would you of said to the parents if you had seriously injured the child? oh im sorry but i was ONLY doing 39mph? Im sorry but i think if you KNOW you were speeding and you KNOW it was you driving the car then you should admit to it. The only times i agree with arguing with this is if you know you were not breaking the law or not the driver. Its 3 points and £60 fine - it could be worse, next time you could hit someone and be done with careless driving/Dangerous driving or even manslaughter.

Next time think before going over the speed limit - Oh and if you have only just passed your test, heres a nice deterranmt for you - 6 points in your first 2 years of driving, licence is autoatically REVOKED and you will need to apply to be a learner driver again

MaximumImpact

We have to move away from the argument that exceeding a specific "speed limit" is a crime, it's just a very easy way for the police to avoid doing their real job of catching people driving dangerously

That comment has quite angered me...My OH is a traffic officer and he doesnt see this as an easy way of not doing his job. Perhaps you would like to do his job??? I have lost count of the number of times that he has come home, quiet and subdued because he has had to knock on someones door and give them news that has destroyed their world.

You have absolutely no idea what a traffic officer does do you??? And I bet you wouldnt have the guts to do it either??

Could you pick up body parts off of a road, could you come home and pretend that it hasn't affected you and then go in the next day and do it all over again????

Speed tickets are the least of their worries and the smallest part of their job. So get your facts right before you make sweeping statements.

Ask a traffic officer, ambulance tech, paramedic, fire officer, what they have seen as a result of speeding rather than some know it all on a speeding forum and then try doing a day in their shoes. If you cant or wouldnt, then slow down or at least be prepared to take the consequences if you get caught.

nobblyned

lovethymini wrote: »

We have to move away from the argument that exceeding a specific "speed limit" is a crime, it's just a very easy way for the police to avoid doing their real job of catching people driving dangerously.

Move away to wherever you fancy.

In the meantime breaking a speed limit is of course a crime until that legislation is changed. Using the appropriate speed arguement everytime someone says they got caught speeding just gets tedious.

The law is there to do the greatest good to the greatest number of people, it may be a broad brush but it's simple and straightforward.

You know the law, it's not too hard to obey, so don't whine when you get caught breaking it.

maninthestreet

MaximumImpact wrote: »

That comment has quite angered me...My OH is a traffic officer and he doesnt see this as an easy way of not doing his job. Perhaps you would like to do his job??? I have lost count of the number of times that he has come home, quiet and subdued because he has had to knock on someones door and give them news that has destroyed their world.

You have absolutely no idea what a traffic officer does do you??? And I bet you wouldnt have the guts to do it either??

Could you pick up body parts off of a road, could you come home and pretend that it hasn't affected you and then go in the next day and do it all over again????

Speed tickets are the least of their worries and the smallest part of their job. So get your facts right before you make sweeping statements.

Ask a traffic officer, ambulance tech, paramedic, fire officer, what they have seen as a result of speeding rather than some know it all on a speeding forum and then try doing a day in their shoes. If you cant or wouldnt, then slow down or at least be prepared to take the consequences if you get caught.

A very emotional argument, but light on facts and statistics. Excessive speed is not as significant a causal factor in road traffic accidents as the authorities claim it is. Visit http://www.safespeed.org.uk/ for a more rational discussion on excess speed and road traffic accidents.

MaximumImpact

Please read the quote I was commenting on......

We have to move away from the argument that exceeding a specific "speed limit" is a crime, it's just a very easy way for the police to avoid doing their real job of catching people driving dangerously

I was not arguing about speed. I am trying to point out to people that speeding is the least of a traffic officers worries and that they have more important things to do..... Speeding tickets are more often or not the result of a static camera or camera safety units. These are funded by and the money goes to government.....Why do people continue to slag off traffic officers and the police about speeding tickets when they have nothing to do with most tickets?????

If you were to put more traffic officers on the streets and get rid of cameras in ratio to that, less tickets would be issued as traffic officers use what cameras dont have, discretion and common sense.