A tip incase anyone gets caught 'speeding'

deepseadiver

If get the letter in the post then just pay the fine and accept you are wrong and that you have not killed someone. You might end up in the "Big House" answering a charge of Death by Dangerous Driving which could be situation. Theres no excuse to not know where the fixed cameras are anyway!

tomstickland

If get the letter in the post then just pay the fine and accept you are wrong and that you have not killed someone

So, if the limit is 70mph on a mway, is that the point at which the risk of killing someone becomes relevant? Is 72mph 2mph into the kill zone, and 68mph 2mph beneath the kill zone?

ollyshaw

The danger of the extreme pro camera lobby is the idea that your ok as long as you are under the limit. As a previous poster has suggested doing 29mph in the rain, at dusk outside a school is probably not safe. Doing 61mph on an open A road in clear conditions is, in my opinion safe.

With the news that there are 7 speed cameras for every police patrol (metro today) the chances of getting nicked for other dangerous driving offences is getting lower. Between 12.5-33% of accidents are caused by speeding. We need to consider the other 67% as well to make the roads safer.

I dont agree with speeding, but dogmatic persuit of it as the be all and end all of road safety is not good.

Olly

nej

Don't forget that car speedo's deliberately over-read (at least modern cars). This is easily seen by using a GPS.

For example, my car says 75-76mph on the speedo for 70mph on the GPS.

Therefore, if the allowed excess is 10% + 2mph, this is obviously 79mph. Me doing 79mph on my speedo is probably only about 73mph in reality. So I can safely travel at about 85mph and really be doing 79mph and therefore be ok.

Or something like that.

DM2007

thanks for the tip

and CAFCgirl - do you lib dem do gooders have to invade the money saving expert forums to?
why dont you politicaly correct types go and save the earth and free our roads up from rubbish slow drivers.

Murphy_The_Cat

Al_Mac wrote:

When I was stopped for speeding, many, many years ago, it was well over the limit. I've never been stopped for doing just over the limit.

What is the lowest difference between limit and speed anyone has been stopped for?

One of my drivers got a ticket for 77 MPH on the M6 in a Renault Master van.

& before anye one shouts BS, the NIP came to me at work.
It was a a mobile extra Tax gatherer that got him.

MTC

northern_munky

DM2007 wrote:

thanks for the tip

and CAFCgirl - do you lib dem do gooders have to invade the money saving expert forums to?
why dont you politicaly correct types go and save the earth and free our roads up from rubbish slow drivers.

:T I love reading these speeding threads, all the sanctimonious lot come out of the woodwork with their smug 'if you speed you get all you deserve' drivel. How many of these people can honestly say hand on heart they never go 1 MPH over the speed limit, come on be honest!

mcfisco

**purpleprincess** wrote:

Doing 56 in a 60 limit wouldn't get you snapped would it as that's not speeding

Not exactly that - but 38 in a 40 got me a ticket through the post


Check any ticket you get thoroughly & don't just accept it
A couple of years ago I got a ticket for doing 38 in a 30 zone
Pretty much bemused as I don't speed intentionally but put it down to a lack of concentration & listened to the mrs going on about dangerous driving & wasting money etc.
It wasn't untill a guy at work mentioned that he was sure the limit was 40 there that it clicked.
Would they believe me when I rang them? - what do you think?
I asked for a copy of the photo but before it came they sent me a letter canceling the previous one - no appology - just a blunt statement tell me that they would not be proceeding futher.

Also, a few years ago, I got stopped on the A66 by a Transport Police car
I'd overtaken them so they put the flashing blues on and pulled me over.
They were adamant that I was speeding & that the national speed limit was 50mph & I was exceeding it - they wouldn't even listen to me that it was - in fact - 60mph
To cut a long story short ......... I asked them if they didn't have anything better to do such as chasing kids off the lines & they got pretty angry & told me I'd hear from them - I didn't.

Murphy_The_Cat

northern_munky wrote:

:T I love reading these speeding threads, all the sanctimonious lot come out of the woodwork with their smug 'if you speed you get all you deserve' drivel. How many of these people can honestly say hand on heart they never go 1 MPH over the speed limit, come on be honest!

I'll put my hands up and say that I, alongside EVERY OTHER DRIVER on my way journey home tonight broke the speed limit at least once - exactly the same as every other day.

& guess what ? no carnage, no death, no accidents, no near misses, just a regular drive home.

MTC

pboae

I always figured that if people got a ticket through then it was a fair cop 'cos they shouldn't have been speeding. Until I finally got one. It was for doing 38 in a 30 zone (only it was a 40 zone) and timed around 2 hours after I'd actually been there. I wrote back asking for the various bits of proof they are obliged to provide and like mcfisco I got a sharply worded letter back saying that they were not going to pursue it.

I knew the time was wrong because I had a table booked at a restaurant 1/2 an hour before the time on the ticket, and I was there on time, and it wasn't until weeks later I noticed that it was a 40 zone as well. If I hadn't been so certain of the time I would have just paid the ticket. So, now I would challenge any automatic ticket I got, I just don't trust them to get it right.

So just because you don't speed, don't assume you'll never get a ticket, and there is NOTHING fair or money saving about paying a fine for something you didn't do.