Ticket for speeding on motorway

aisha13

Trebor16 wrote: »

Yes, that is correct.

The only way you could find out is to contact them and enquire what is happening. Otherwise the first you might know is when a summons arrives in the post.

As long as the information is laid with the court within six months of the date of the offence then it doeasn't matter if the summons reaches you outside of the six months.

Thank you
What about if I receive a summons in 2-3 weeks time. How do I know if they laid my case with court before 6th of October? They can say that they did it on 29th of September, but the true date could be 8th of October. Any idea how can I check it?

aisha13

And what abt if I receive the letter with no date specify when was my case laid with court. Do I ask them for the date and evidence?

Lum

aisha13 wrote: »

Can I "not agree" with magistrate and take him/her to court for being for example racist towards me or something like that? LOL:)
Probably it will cost me more... and its not worth it....

Technically yes, but when you lose the costs will be a lot higher, due to needing a proper Judge and everything. Plus the magistrate will likely just say that you had a bad additude or were causing trouble or some other explanation not to do with race or nationality.

Trebor16

aisha13 wrote: »

Thank you
What about if I receive a summons in 2-3 weeks time. How do I know if they laid my case with court before 6th of October? They can say that they did it on 29th of September, but the true date could be 8th of October. Any idea how can I check it?

The court would confirm the date the information was laid. They would be able to tell you.

vaio

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

Surely this would be withholding a material fact, wouldn't it?

In the instance Wig was talking about the OP would end up without a speeding conviction so the material fact would be they hadn't been convicted of speeding, hadn't been on a speed awareness course and hadn't got points.

From my memory, the questions tend to be long the lines of "have you been convicted of ....." to which the OP can honestly answer NO

birkee

easy wrote: »

Different issue entirely.

If you are caught speeding, and there was NO OTHER INCIDENT, they can't just tack on 'dangerous driving' because they feel like it. No evidence, for a start.

No, they can't just tack on a dangerous driving charge.

No evidence to support it? How many times on TV have you seen a Police car replaying the video to someone they've stopped?

There seems to be great difficulty on here, in understanding the difference between speeding, and dangerouse driving. They are seperate, but can be combined in certain cases.

Driving a car that can do 140mph, at 140mph is dangerous driving on a public road. The car is at it's limit, has reduced control, and makes no allowance for other peoples actions.
Someone quoted doing 101mph on a quiet motorway, with no charge of dangerous driving.....now do the same thing on the M6 north of B'ham during the day..... They would throw away the key!
Same offence,.... speeding....but???

Regarding other peoples actions: Went to Scotland one time, and without going into reasons, was travelling North on the M6 at 1am in the morning. In one section, the motorway was virtually empty, and I was cruising in the NS lane at about 80mph. Passing one junction, a car came sliding down the slip road, straight into the middle lane, and just sat there.
If I had been doing 140mph, and hadn't been able to miss him, who would have been charged? And with what?
It wouldn't have been just a speeding ticket.

birkee

Lum wrote: »

I meant no offence to you, if that is what you are concerned about.

Basically a magistrate is not a legal professional in the way that a Judge or a lawyer is, and a magistrates court has no jury, just a legal advisor to the magistrate, yet they have the freedom to vary the punishment between the minimum and the maximum and they don't really need to justify this.

Basically this means you can end up getting fined more simply because the magistrate is in a bad mood that day, or because they just take a dislike to you, or because they are one of those people who think all cars are evil.

It's one aspect of the British legal system that I'm really not happy about.

Why you think magistrates are different to any other human beings is a bit odd.
The same problems afflict High Court judges just the same as a magistrate.

Wig

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

Surely this would be withholding a material fact, wouldn't it?

No, because you will have been convicted of nothing, so nothing to declare.

Wig

And I need to ask you one question is the car UK registered? or Polish registered?

If it is UK registered, whose name is it registered in? Yours or someone else?

Yes pedants that was 4 questions LOL

photome

Wig wrote: »

you are keeping a clean licence which would have had those 3 points on it for the next 5 years. (yes pedants, 5 years, because they won't remove them for 5 years, even though they are only valid for 4 years.)

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Hi Pedant here, I thought points were valid for 3 years and removed after 4 ?