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Speeding offence
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May be the old fool should be made to go on a speed awareness course as well as getting a ban.Never Knowingly Understood.
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Also, he needs to be aware that if an argument for exceptional hardship is successful, he will not be able to argue exceptional hardship again on the same grounds for a period of 3 years. So if he succeeds in arguing exceptional hardship, he needs to drive like an angel from now on.What will your verse be?
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Shayboy786 wrote: »All His 9points were accumulated in April 2012..bad month !!
Caught 3 times in one month but how many times did he break road traffic laws in that time (and in the time since) without getting caught?
As hard as it might be for him, I honestly think a ban might be the wake up call he needs or the next time he speeds or jumps a red light he may end up causing injury to others.0 -
Shayboy: What has jumped out at us from your single post was the bit about -
........ has been a good driver for over 50yrs, clear daylight morning, thin traffic, was not speeding in the whole journey ........
Had you not put that in I think the responses would have been different.
I don't think any of us can really, truthfully say we have never broken a speed limit, but to say that someone with 9 points and another few on the way is 'a good driver' will always stir up a negative reaction.
Get professional advice on how to word your dad's mitigating circumstances, and also very importantly what NOT to say - both in any written statement and in court on the day - as what you consider is helpful may have exactly the opposite effect.
Saying what you wrote will get him banned for sure.
I'm making no judgements here - but have a search on the forum for - nuns with kittens stepping off the pavement.
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Many years back now - DD was still at primary school, I had window open on my car, engine off & I told her she could cross the road - it was quiet, so I thought it safe. She was in middle of road, when a female driver came round the blind bend at well over 30 texting on her phone. The amount of smoke & tyre tread left on the road was spectacular & also on wrong side of road. Driver shouted & swore at my DD saying it was her fault - duh no it wasn't. She wanted to call the cops - so I said go ahead, but I shall tell them you were texting & speeding. Had she been on left my DD would be dead or injured, but we were lucky that day. We live in a village & the road is 30mph, 99% of drivers using it do 40 or more! We've had police out, & now have 2 people who do speed watch every few weeks. If someone gets caught, cops contact them, if they are a repeater, then cops take action. So please do not say 50 in a 30 is alright - he's never had an accident in 50 years of driving. IMO he should now be banned. To get 3 times & now a 4th says it all.0
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I think you're extrapolating and conflating a bit, Horse.
There are certainly times and places where (strict legality aside) 50 in a 30 would be safe and appropriate - and there are plenty of situations where it would even have been legal the day before.
Equally, it wouldn't matter what the speed limit was in the case you describe. Exceeding an arbitrary number set 80 years ago was the least of the cardinal sins that driver committed.
But doing 50 in a 30 when you're already on 9 points? That's just shooting yourself in the foot.0 -
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I must confess to inadvertently straying over the speed limit on occasions, but I don't see how you could be doing 51 in a 30 zone and not be aware that you were speeding. Someone like that is a danger to other road users.0
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It's pretty simple.
If you're on 9 points be a good boy.0
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