Police speed detector van

Apples2

Sgt_Pepper wrote: »

Whatever you claim its about its not for clowns to take the pl55.

It does teach you it is entirely normal for the average driver to exceed designated speed limits from time to time.

Not you though right?
Never once drifted a touch over 30mph in a 30mph limit, not once right.

Everything is goodness and laughter at 30mph but sheer lunacy at 31 right? Everybody dies.

You sound like you could do with attending one to demonstrate your arrogance is misguided and you too (yes, even you) cold learn a thing or two.

Sgt_Pepper_2

Apples2 wrote: »

It does teach you it is entirely normal for the average driver to exceed designated speed limits from time to time.

Not you though right?
Never once drifted a touch over 30mph in a 30mph limit, not once right.

Everything is goodness and laughter at 30mph but sheer lunacy at 31 right? Everybody dies.

You sound like you could do with attending one to demonstrate your arrogance is misguided and you too (yes, even you) cold learn a thing or two.

And what would I learn by taking the p155?

Apples2

Sgt_Pepper wrote: »

And what would I learn

Nothing, you already know it all of course.

Takeaway_Addict

Sgt_Pepper wrote: »

And what would I learn by taking the p155?

Lighten up....

SLITHER99

If I can offer my own tale of woe, I got caught in Northampton by a git in a van! I got my SP30 notice which detailed my speed as 33mph in a 30mph zone. I prided myself on being a very careful driver. It just so happened, I misjudged the road and had people talking in the car.

However, I was miffed at being done at 3mph. If I was doing 40mph or 60mph, I'd suck it up and take the lesson. But, I just thought that a miserable 3mph even having a reputation of driving like an old man, I let it go to court.

I asked for the calibration data for the camera used. Duly supplied but the people I spoke to treated me like a piece of excrement. I let it go to court to argue it down to a day at a driving school - I didn't want 3 points on my license.

Well, the judge threw the book at me! I offered the standard "10% over, guv?" and that "maybe the speedo was slightly off" to which the judge said, "Either take your 3 points and pay your fine and court costs, or I have your vehicle seized and your speedometer tested for accuracy and, if found to be faulty, prosecute you further."

I left red-faced after taking my 3 points and £210 worth of fine and court costs.

If you're caught, you're caught! Pay your £60 fine and suck it down.

Incidentally, ever since my !!!! whipping, I find I pay a lot less attention to speed limits. I don't drive dangerously, but rather than get rained on over a matter of 3mph, I'd rather really earn the punishment. So yep, I push it to 80mph in a national speed limit and I do 35 in a 30. Sod it, if I'm getting points, earn em!

Oddly, not had a single ticket in the 8 years since!

Just to add: the 10% rule is apparently totally down to juristriction or so a local cop-in-training tells me. In some counties, they allow the 10% or 5mph over. It so happens in Northamptonshire, they don't allow anything over at all.

Sod's law!

Stooby2

Distance= Up to 1km depending on their view & conditions.

ISTR a court case where this was successfully challenged. The operator has to make two speed checks - one visually where he/she estimates the speed of the car, which takes a few seconds, and if they feel it's excessive, then use the speed gun to confirm it. It was held that an operator couldn't possibly estimate the speeds at the distance he had measured them (about 800 metres I think) and that the times between successive photos of different vehicle plainly showed he was simply using the gun to check every vehicle that came into view and not spending several seconds estimating the speeds of each vehicle.