another speeding ticket help

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Frugal_Fox wrote:

Sorry - but if you take the risk of exceeding the speedlimit, regardless of day or time, then as well as the 'calculated risk' you are taking of your own and others lives you are also taking the 'calculated risk' of being caught.

I drive within the limits or under. You may find me an 'annoying driver' - but 6 years ago I hit a child. The child was pushed out into the road by another child whilst waiting at a bus stop. I'd already taken the precaution of slowing to just over 20, but still was not able to react in time. I hit the child with the wing of my car, whilst desparately trying to swerve. The childs right arm & shoulder were completly shattered. I was devastated.

Speeding causes accidents - you can not react in time.

My DH works for the ambulance service. Accidents cost lives and many thousands of pounds.

If you don't want to get caught - keep to the limit.

getting into a car and doing 30mph is a 'calculated risk' driving a car is a risk - just because it is within the law doesn't make it safe. you were doing under 30 so you know that. even under 30 is a SPEED. are we to ban driving all together? i am sick of the attitude that it is safe under 30. "i am a safe driver blar blar blar" . it isn't safe we takes risks every day. 30mph is a speed that the govenment has come up with, if hrs were shorter or a mile longer they would have rounded it differently the speed would be different.

given that you admit that 20mph didn't give you enough time to react am i too assume that you never go over 20mph now? surely you dont as you have first hand experience as to why this dangerous.

Fruitcake

I try to keep to speed limits. I do not deliberately speed, but sometimes I make a mistake. Sometimes I find I have missed change in speed limit signs, sometimes I have found my speed has crept up without seemingly any intervention from my right foot. If I get caught, it will still be my fault.
I can understand people inadvertantly speeding and can sympathise with them. I do not condone deliberately breaking the speed limit. It is not always possible to tell if someone has made a genuine mistake, but more often than not it is obvious.
The original post was to ask for advice. My suggestion is to ask to be sent on one of the road safety courses sometimes offered to drivers in this situation. The fact that the op has previous may actually be to their advantage if they say that they need help.
My son went on one of these courses as an alternative to prosecution following an accident that was his fault. His driving has actually improved and he now pays more attention before pulling out at junctions.


Fruitcake

You Only Listen To Me When I'm Wrong

tr3mor

It's the arbitrary nature of speed limits that annoy me, they are letting poor drivers get away with thinking that they are safe regardless of the conditions on the road.

Is it safe for some half-blind 70 year old to be driving past a school in a thunderstorm at 30mph? NO.

Is it safe for an alert, confident driver to be driving along an empty motorway at 4am at 80mph? YES.

Where's the logic in the speed limits there?!

Churchmouse wrote:

blah, blah... undertakes... blah, blah

I'm sorry dear, but if there's safe room to undertake then it is you that is sat in the wrong lane!!!

Not to derail or anything, but lane hogs really annoy me!

hollydays

I was suitably entertained when i read a letter in a local newspaper.A good christian soul who was known to her family and friends for her harsh uncompromising criticism of speeders.

Then guess what happened?Yep-she got caught speeding!

She was highly embarrassed (i think she may have written previous letters to the paper on this very subject) and was the subject of much mirth in her family- and then trotted out all the usual weedy excuses we give-i didnt realise etc etc,finally having learnt the lesson about being holier than thou.

danmar_2

My friend recently got a letter of intented prosecution through for going 35 in a 30 limit she is really worried as she doesnt have much money is there any way of contesting it for free she would apriciate any help

Bossyboots

danmar wrote:

My friend recently got a letter of intented prosecution through for going 35 in a 30 limit she is really worried as she doesnt have much money is there any way of contesting it for free she would apriciate any help

You are getting replies to this on the thread you started. Might be better to keep it to just the one place.

D.K.

Speed limits often don't make sense. What year did 70mph come in.Cars have disc brakes and radial tyres now.
Also, I'm sick of having to keep looking at my speedometer instead of looking where I'm going and having to brake because someone on the motorway up ahead in the queue who was doing 80 has spotted a camera or a police car and has, in a panic, suddenly slowed down to 60. Silverfoxdude you have a point, but take care.

sarahg1969

Tell her to look at pepipoo.com.

Sarah

IvanOpinion

D.K. wrote:

Also, I'm sick of having to keep looking at my speedometer instead of looking where I'm going ...

A policeman friend of mine loves people who come up with this excuse ... he immediately bypasses the 'I am just going to give you a verbal warning' and oes straight to writing a ticket ... his attitude is that if someone has difficulty keeping an eye on the road and their speedometer then they should not be driving

ivan

hollydays

What are her grounds to contest it?