Speeding and motability

lyniced

Basically hubby was driving with me in my motability car locally, when we noticed about 5 police standing around (next to one of those electronic speed sign) with various gadgets (could have been speed guns). Anyway, hubby noticed he was nearly doing 40 (its a 30 zone) and started to break. When we went past the electronic sign, it said 31 slow down. Hubby said that he was sure that was ok, and if we were going to be fined they would have stopped us.

My question is will we get a letter from police, and if hubby did get a fine, what does motability think of that? It would be his first fine ever, in 30 years+ of driving.

colin13

makes no diffrence to motability,you get fine ,you pay fine,dont worry about motability,I changed my car with 3 points on my licience,no comment made about it at all

System

Don't forget to tell the insurers though

lyniced

colin13 wrote: »

makes no diffrence to motability,you get fine ,you pay fine,dont worry about motability,I changed my car with 3 points on my licience,no comment made about it at all

Great thanks for putting my mind at rest!

dori2o

Most police forces have a 'tolerance' regarding when they will/wont issue a ticket for speeding so for 1MPH over the limit I don't think you have anything to worry about. Plus speedo's in cars are not 100% reliable, hence why they have a tolerance.

For example I know that the general rule in our area is speed limit + 3mph + 10% (a former school friend is a police officer), therefore in order to get a speeding ticket in a 30 zone you would have to be travelling a consistant 36MPH+

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!!!!!! wrote: »

Don't forget to tell the insurers though

motability includes insurance,and a single speeding fine does not have to be reported,OP i doubt being 3% over the limit would mean a fine

lyniced

Thank you to all, the fine didn't really worry me (although it's not nice) but I know motability/RSA can be very strict.

HB58

If it was really only 31 MPH in a 30 limit, I doubt that you will get a ticket. If you do, you would probably be offered the option of a fine + 'speed school' rather than points.

DevCoder

You probably won't get a ticket

But tell "hubby" to slow down and be aware of what the speed limit is.

If he was aware that it was a 30 zone then there is no excuse for doing 40.

z1a

They probably got you with hand held detector well before you slowed to 31!

Horseunderwater

If nothing arrives in post by 14 business days - you should have gotten away with it. However, tell him he must be more aware of speeding now. Suffolk Police are really having a big crack down at present and are everywhere, doing anyone. Just wish somebody would sit on my drive and do all the SPEEDERS in my road. It is rare a car actually manages to do 30 and any that do get overtaken! So far have lost 3 cats myself - nearly my daughter - and other residents have lost other pets as well. What amazes me is that people still buy gas guzzlers and speed in these days of high fuel prices. Driving at more sensible speeds would save lots of dosh for loads a people, if only they'd do it. My OH now drives at a speed that gets him approx 85mpg by doing natural acceleration and slowing down quite a bit from junctions etc, keeping back from other vehicles. Buys one tank a month now in stead of one and a bit. And yes it is diesel, which finally got a proper service last year, despite Ford saying jobs done etc, they never were.