Speeding points

Aretnap

TonyMMM wrote: »

Your knowledge/advice is so wrong and out of date - evidencing a speed offence from a following vehicle with a calibrated speedometer is very straightforward...

About 63 years out of date in fact - Nichols v Penny (1950) I believe.

(It doesn't even have to be calibrated if the speed is significantly over the limit - IIRC Nichols v Penny involved a speed 10% over the limit and the High Court concluded that the magistrates were entitled to convict without evidence that the speedometer was calibrated)

mattyprice4004

I'd say 3 points was too lenient, it takes a special kind of moron to do what was probably 60MPH indicated in a 30MPH zone.

alastairq

mattyprice4004 wrote: »

I'd say 3 points was too lenient, it takes a special kind of moron to do what was probably 60MPH indicated in a 30MPH zone.

Nothing 'special' about them at all!

Given that, simply looking out of my front window, a straw estimate tells me almost two-thirds of vehicles passing my house [a 30 mph limit] this morning, from 5 a.m. until 8 a.m., are travelling well in excess of the speed limit.

LGV's especially....but mainly those 'going to work'.

Which, somehow, makes their 'flouting of the Law' acceptable.

Only, it isn't the Law which is the issue.

It is the impact those [ignorant, in the biblical sense] people have on the quality of life others living nearby, or using the street!

Lum

For all we know this could be one of those 3 lane dual carriageways that have a 30 limit for some odd reason. I know there's a few of them in the Bath/Bristol area. Some of them don't even have repeaters, or the repeaters are buried in foliage.

50 in a 30 doesn't automatically mean they were tanking it through a narrow side street with parked cars on both sides and children playing in the road. It's comparatively rare for cameras to be on this kind of road.

Sometimes I really wish this forum would leave the judging to those with the silly looking wigs and just answer the question.

neilmcl

Lum wrote: »

For all we know this could be one of those 3 lane dual carriageways that have a 30 limit for some odd reason. I know there's a few of them in the Bath/Bristol area. Some of them don't even have repeaters, or the repeaters are buried in foliage.

50 in a 30 doesn't automatically mean they were tanking it through a narrow side street with parked cars on both sides and children playing in the road. It's comparatively rare for cameras to be on this kind of road.

Sometimes I really wish this forum would leave the judging to those with the silly looking wigs and just answer the question.

The OP (nice to keep us updated btw!), wasn't caught by a camera, it was the plod that pulled him over.

Lum

Fair enough, but my point about 30mph dual carriageways still applies. The fact that it was plod just makes it even more likely that this was a major road rather than a residential side street.

shaun_from_Africa

The fact that it was plod just makes it even more likely that this was a major road rather than a residential side street.

I would have thought that if this was the case then the OP would have stated that they were speeding on a dual carriageway or major road rather than the discription of "a local road" that was used.

Lum

"a local road" can mean basically anything other than a motorway and certain long distance roads.

The point is we don't know, it could have been a two-car-wide residential sidestreet, the OP tearing down it, with child's body parts splattering out from under the wheels like a scene from Carmageddon. We don't have the information to judge.

shaun_from_Africa

But if someone posts on a forum looking for opinions and advice and that post doesn't contain all of the relevant information, then all people can do is to go on what was posted and make assumptions as to the rest. (and you yourself made an assumption as to the location of the OP).

If the OP wanted a more detailed response, then they should have given more details to begin with.

Lum

I made no such assumption, just gave an example of a possible interpretation, and the OP gave enough information for their question which was "What is the likely outcome of me having received this ticket?". Their question was not "Can you tell me what you think of my driving?"