Caught Speeding - Likely Fines?

ghost1001

Idiophreak wrote:

My thoughts

also, do you *need* to drive for your job?
If you're a paramedic or a courier etc it might work in your favour - if you just can't be bothered to get the bus, it won't.

Its not as essential as the work of a delivery driver or paramedic etc but I have to visit clients quite often and obviously a driving ban would make this impossible due to the distances and getting things there.

Thanks for all the advice everyone!

Still no word from them yet! No doubt they are wanting to make me sweat it out for as long as possible!

I'm not intending on giving any excuses when I eventually have to go to court! Just try to appeal to there sympathetic side (if they have one)!!

Its just not my year with driving this year! Someone ran into the back of me on the motorway they other day. Completely not my fault as I was just sat in a queue of traffic! I'd already been stationary for about 30 - 40 seconds before they hit me!!

nickmack

ghost1001 wrote:

Its not as essential as the work of a delivery driver or paramedic etc but I have to visit clients quite often and obviously a driving ban would make this impossible due to the distances and getting things there.

If you do mention your job as requiring a significant amount of driving, be careful. I know of cases where the court has been sympathetic with letters from a manager being taken into account.

Equally I also know of cases where the court has taken the opposite line. They have basically said 'If driving is so important to your job, and you do so on a regular basis, why are you not more careful?' and then issued a ban.

mrnomoneybags

I think they would be very harsh to ban you, i was caught doing 71 in a 40 (elivated slip road from one dual carrage way to another)

I got 4 points and £100 fine ........... that was over 5 years ago now though.


I would say see what happens ......... another thing is that the car you where caught by should have its equipment checked and cilibrated everyday and this should be shown in the PC's pocket book. (so i've heard anyway)

-Tom

tomstickland

Idiophreak wrote:

3) The M4 in wales is just dumb. There isn't a bit of it (except, maybe, the tunnel) that isn't safe to drive at 70, so all of the speed limit changes are completely unnecessary and just there to make life hard.
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Which bit of the M4 has limits below 70 on?

Wig

tomstickland wrote:

Which bit of the M4 has limits below 70 on?

London junction 3 - 1 50mph
Somewhere around Junction 17 - roadworks 40mph
Port Talbot 50mph (and yes it is unecessary)

Wig

Markyt wrote:

Welsh plod are goits for this I'm afraid - their Chief believes speeders are the worst thing on the planet. I can only say to wait and see what you are offered, and check the sites the others have mentioned :-(

You mean North Wales Chief, I dunno where A55 is

ghost1001

Wig wrote:

You mean North Wales Chief, I dunno where A55 is

A55 in North Wales yep!

tomstickland

Oh yes, I forgot about the 50 limit round Port Talbot. There's also the 50 limit on the severn toll, all because of someone !!!!!!! up and not slowing down the for very large and clear toll booth. The 50 round Port Talbot is probably to do with noise levels since the mway passes close to houses. The bit at the London end goes on forever though.

philhuff

TheImportanceOfBeingIdle wrote:

The national speed limit signs are not used to indicate one speed. They are used to tell you that the national speed limit applies for the particular vehicle you are driving.

So your suggestion is remove ONE sign and replace it with several indicating the different speed limits for different vehicles.

'Sorry I was speeding officer I was just lookig for the sign that told me how fast I could travel in this particular vehicle'

Where a speed limit is displayed now, though, there's different limits for different vehicles. For example, a lot of roads around Lincolnshire are 50mph limits, signposted as such, but HGV's have to sit at 40mph. There's a few posted as 60mph (and not 'national speed limit applies'), where trucks still have to do 40mph, and smaller vans have to remain at 50mph. If multiple signs are confusing for some, then the national speed limit sign will also be.

Personally, I'm all for the abolition of a national speed limit, and all for the introduction of well thought out restrictions, designed to fit every road rather than simply a blanket over the whole country. That means many limits go up, while many limits go down.

It'll never happen, though...

superfly_2

I reckon your best bet, if going to court , would be to plead guilty and accept the punishment. prob Max 6 points and fine roughly £150. If you challenge the prosecution the penalty is likely to be more severe.
HTH