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Speeding fines
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If you are offered a fixed penalty, it is £100, plus three points on your licence.
If you refuse that option, or your speed is too high to qualify, you will be summonsed to court. If found guilty, the fine will depend on the speed and your income, the points may be increased up to 6, and disqualification is possible. There are guidelines (in England & Wales), but the magistrates are not bound by them.
You will also have to pay a victim surcharge, plus costs.0 -
Once you exceed the speed limit by a certain point ... Say 45 in a 30 ... It will go to court rather than being a fixed penalty.0
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Generally 50 in a 30jbainbridge wrote: »Once you exceed the speed limit by a certain point ... Say 45 in a 30 ... It will go to court rather than being a fixed penalty.
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You may also be offered a Speed Awareness Course, which if you accept will not result in a fixed penalty or any points on your licence.No free lunch, and no free laptop
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Thanks.
I'm not in the territory of a summons - I was a smidge over 70 in a 70 district. Not stopped by the police, no speed cameras, but there was what looked like a mobile speed camera van in a lay-by.0 -
Most car speedometers over read at 70, so unless you had over 80 on the clock you should be o.k.I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....
(except air quality and Medical Science)0 -
I went past a mobile speed camera van at about 44 in a 40 a few years ago, never heard anything.
Should be fine at 70.What will your verse be?
R.I.P Robin Williams.0 -
Local police have discretion over what happens. There are guidelines but forces do not have to follow them.jbainbridge wrote: »Once you exceed the speed limit by a certain point ... Say 45 in a 30 ... It will go to court rather than being a fixed penalty.
Some examples here:
http://www.ukmotorists.com/speeding%20fines2.asp
I somehow got away with a speed awareness course after being stopped doing 100 on a motorway. Very lucky.0
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