Intented prosecution - Exceed 50mph Motorway temp restriction (Roadworks) -ACD

jumapech

I know someone who was caught speeding (38 in a 30).He had been rung by the hospital to say his wife had taken a turn for the worse(only a young lady) and she sadly passed away within a few mins of him getting to the hospital. The Police still didnt allow for these circumstances and he rec the fine as he was in no fit state after she had died to do a speed awareness course..

keystone

jumapech wrote: »

I know someone who was caught speeding (38 in a 30).He had been rung by the hospital to say his wife had taken a turn for the worse(only a young lady) and she sadly passed away within a few mins of him getting to the hospital. The Police still didnt allow for these circumstances and he rec the fine as he was in no fit state after she had died to do a speed awareness course..

This is going to sound dreadfully callous but a few more minutes would not have changed the outcome. 80% of people hit by vehicles at 40mph die compared to 20% at 30mph. What if he had hit a child?

Cheers

Lum

keystone wrote: »

This is going to sound dreadfully callous but a few more minutes would not have changed the outcome. 80% of people hit by vehicles at 40mph die compared to 20% at 30mph. What if he had hit a child?

Cheers

I hate that advertising campaign so much. It is fundamentally flawed.

Firstly just because someone is "speeding" at 40mph in a residential area doesn't mean they aren't looking where they are going, in most car into pedestrian cases the driver will slow down or attempt to go around the pedestrian.

Unless of course they aren't looking where they are going because they're too busy watching their speedo because there are cameras everywhere and they've had 10 years of brainwashing that simply sticking to the limit makes them safe and absolves them of any responsibility for anything.

I'd much rather be hit by the observant driver who was doing 40, but saw me step out and thus was only doing 20 or so at the time of impact, than the unobservant driver who is still crusising along at 30 at the time of impact.


However all this is as irrelevant, as is your post, because this offence happened on a motorway!

optimus_primera

Someone once told me 'its only illegal if you get caught' ....

Take option 2.

It always makes me wonder if people do not understand the meaning of ' average speed' ......

Lum

I regularly see people speeding through roadworks and then slowing down at each SPECS camera. It's hilarious.

The worst are the ones that go past you at 60, then slow down to about 35 or so and then speed up again, with the result that their average speed does actually end up being about the same as yours (I just use cruise control at exactly 50 on the GPS) and thus never a get a ticket, which presumably re-enforces their idiot idea so they keep on doing it, screwing up traffic flow for everyone else.

People react in a variety of ways, many of them crazy, in response to an average speed camera zone. This is what makes them so dangerous.

Hammyman

keystone wrote: »

This is going to sound dreadfully callous but a few more minutes would not have changed the outcome. 80% of people hit by vehicles at 40mph die compared to 20% at 30mph. What if he had hit a child?

Cheers

Keystone demonstrates they have bought the lie. If you're travelling at 40MPH in a 30 limit and a kid jumps out a bit further down the street at a distance you can't stop in, you immediately slam on the brakes. You've slowed down A LOT from 40MPH and will be under 30MPH. Unless they stepped out straight in front as you literally as you got to them, you're going to have scrubbed a lot of speed off.

mikey72

I can slow down more from 50mph if I see them early enough.

Keith

I know, I've got this wicked far out idea.

We could teach children not to walk out in front of cars.

Sorry, it's a stupid idea

Yorkie1

psarinuk wrote: »

Hi
I spoke to Bedfordshire police and they claim they cannot revoke the ticket. They want me to confirm the driver plus give my intention of the 3 options:
1. £60 and 3 penalty points (NO WAY!!).
2. Speed awareness course (£67), no points
3. Court procedure: Plead mitigation circumstances to court.

Irrespective of which option you choose (and I'd agree with option 2), do make sure you also return the form confirming that you were the driver. You've probably got another week or two to do so.

If you fail to do that then you're looking at the separate offence of failing to give information, for which there isn't an alternative to court, and a bigger fine / points.

I'd also check the T&Cs of your insurance as I'd have thought that this is something you may need to declare even if it doesn't go to court?

keystone

Lum wrote: »

However all this is as irrelevant, as is your post, because this offence happened on a motorway!

It was completely relevent in the context of the post to which I was responding.

Cheers