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HELP - Wrongly accused of using mobile phone whilst driving!
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you were not wrongly accused so please, say your innocent so you can get a harsher sentence!Target Savings by end 2009: 20,000
current savings: 20,500 (target hit yippee!)
Debts: 8000 (student loan so doesnt count)
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You won't get a ban you will get your licence revoked. Although your insurance will increase, it won't increase by as much as if you were banned.
Once the licence is revoked, you can apply for your new provisional licence straight away and from receipt apply for your theory and then practical tests.
If you can show that you weren't using the phone then I would have your day in court. Its all circumstantial but I would tell the court that the reason you are there in person is because you know you are innocent; if you knew you were guilty you would have accepted the fine and points.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
"If you can show that you weren't using the phone" ! ummm and how does he do that, he was only cuddling it coz the polo mints were bullying it ; )0
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MrSquare - you should consider a career in politics the way you have continually managed to avoid answering the burning question - Why did you have the phone in your hand ?0
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I'm curious about 2 things:
1) Did the OP get off and if he did, what was the rason he gave to the magistrates
or what was the penalty if he didn't?2014 Target;
To overpay CC by £1,000.
Overpayment to date : £310
2nd Purse Challenge:
£15.88 saved to date0 -
The OP is a muppet, dont use or even touch your phone when driving and you cant go wrong, end of.They have the internet on computers now?! - Homer Simpson
It's always better to be late in this life, than early in the next0 -
Just why did you have the phone in your hand in the first place? You might have still been able to have the steering wheel in both hands, but you would not have been able to HOLD it properly. Nor would you have been able to use the steering wheel stick controls, or the gear or handbrake properly, depending on what hand you were holding the mobile in. I'm afraid you have rather alot to learn about driving. You have already admitted exceeding the speed limit and then complained that you are allowed 10%. Modern cars mostly have digital speedos, and rightly or wrongly, the police deem them to be more accurate than the old needle variety, and therefore the 10% margin is no longer granted. You must also remember that some police like to target young drivers, or people who appear to be young. A teenage friend of mine got pulled over for having a failed indicator bulb. She knew it had failed, it had gone during the journey and not having been driving long, didn't know how to change it. When she spoke to the police officer, he then accused her of talking on her mobile while driving, and was aggressive to her. Luckily she was able to prove that it was locked in her handbag, in the boot of the car at the time. Poor kid was very distressed by the whole incident. A colleague at work was always being pulled over by the police as she is under 5 feet tall. On more than one occasion they crawled all over the car looking for something to nail her on. But this police force did always have a very bad reputation for being racist...0
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Modern cars mostly have digital speedos, and rightly or wrongly, the police deem them to be more accurate than the old needle variety, and therefore the 10% margin is no longer granted. ...
It is not often I venture into this forum, but I must say, in the 2 threads I have read (this one and the one about a ladies son who traveled 300 miles to buy a car) you don't half manage to spout an absolute load of !!!! and make it sound as if you know what you are talking about. If people actually believe the rubbish you type, then they would put themselves into quite a lot of trouble. Please stop making 'facts' up.“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires0 -
You have to admire her though, why let the truth get in the way of a good story. J.K.Rawlings must have started somewhere : ) admittedly not as stupid as the fatpig, but from little acorns.0
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A colleague at work was always being pulled over by the police as she is under 5 feet tall. On more than one occasion they crawled all over the car looking for something to nail her on. But this police force did always have a very bad reputation for being racist...
OMG! Ha ha ha ha!
Thanks to others for pointing this post out......absolutely priceless :rotfl:0
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