Speeding Ticket

honkifyou

Hi all,

Today I received 2 speeding tickets from 2 seperate dates.

Offence 1 - 48mph in a 30mph zone
Offence 2 - 43mph in a 30mph zone

I’m not contesting it at all and fully admit both offences. That’s what I get for rushing to work and I fully understand it’s my own fault.

I’m just looking for information/advise on the next steps and what punishment I am likely to receive? Having never received a speeding ticket before the process is totally alien to me and to say I’m extremely worried is a massive understatement.

Thanks in advance

waamo

honkifyou wrote: »

Hi all,

Today I received 2 speeding tickets from 2 seperate dates.

Offence 1 - 48mph in a 30mph zone
Offence 2 - 43mph in a 30mph zone

I!!!8217;m not contesting it at all and fully admit both offences. That!!!8217;s what I get for rushing to work and I fully understand it!!!8217;s my own fault.

I!!!8217;m just looking for information/advise on the next steps and what punishment I am likely to receive? Having never received a speeding ticket before the process is totally alien to me and to say I!!!8217;m extremely worried is a massive understatement.

Thanks in advance

Both of those speeds are likely to result in a trip to court. You are too fast for a fixed penalty.

You will be looking at 4-6 points for each offence and a fine of a weeks wages. If you have passed your test in the past 2 years you could potentially have your licence revoked.

A short ban is also possible but highly unlikely. If you plead guilty at the earliest opportunity this is taken into account and you should get a "discount" for doing so.

Currently there is a post above this one. I suspect it may get removed. Suffice to say if you follow that "advice" you will face a prison sentence.

Mercdriver

Fixed penalty £100 and 3 points is up to and including 49 mph in most authorities. You miss out on the Speed awareness course by 1mph on the 43mph one. So you are looking at 2 x £100 and 2 x 3 points.

Waamo is correct on the above however - the advice from new poster is a soap on a rope offence - you'll do time.

GothicStirling

An expensive way to learn to set your alarm earlier (or if your someon who likes hitting snooze, have your phone away from the bedside, so you physically have to get out of bed to switch it off). I still have a Radio alarm, set to a station with the most atrocious music, which does a brilliant job of making me jump out of bed at 6:45.

AdrianC

Well, the mystery post has gone - lemme guess, it involved lying about the car being cloned? Muppetry...


They should both be FPs.

As far as process goes, what you have there will be s172 notifications - a request to the registered keeper to identify the driver. Clearly, you're the driver in both. Your problem comes in that your licence is likely to be away for one when it's needed for the other. There'll be a phone number on them - talk to them. Are they both from the same force?

honkifyou

AdrianC wrote: »

Well, the mystery post has gone - lemme guess, it involved lying about the car being cloned? Muppetry...


They should both be FPs.

As far as process goes, what you have there will be s172 notifications - a request to the registered keeper to identify the driver. Clearly, you're the driver in both. Your problem comes in that your licence is likely to be away for one when it's needed for the other. There'll be a phone number on them - talk to them. Are they both from the same force?

Yes, the mystery post was deleted over night and was encouraging me to engage in illegal activitiy to avoid points/fine.

Yes you are correct I am the driver in both and have compled both of the NIP’s and posted them back today. Also both offences are for the same police force.

Arklight

Here's what you do OP. Sit back, relax and thank every god you may or may not believe in that your awful driving has only resulted in setting a couple of speed traps off, rather than flattening someone.

In a parallel universe somewhere there is a version of you, grey with worry, because while they were doing 48mph in a residential area, a pedestrian stepped out onto what they thought was a 30 mph road and had no chance at all.

And before all the, "It was only here, there wasn't anyone there, it was after the..." nonsense starts, save it. People who do in excess of an indicated 50 in a 30, do it habitually. You've been fortunate in that you've been caught by a camera, rather than someone's body bouncing off your bonnet.

Now learn from it, move on, and when you're eventually allowed to drive again, don't do it again.

Richard53

Arklight wrote: »

Here's what you do OP. Sit back, relax and thank every god you may or may not believe in that your awful driving has only resulted in setting a couple of speed traps off, rather than flattening someone.

In a parallel universe somewhere there is a version of you, grey with worry, because while they were doing 48mph in a residential area, a pedestrian stepped out onto what they thought was a 30 mph road and had no chance at all.

Harsh but fair.


The bit in bold ... exactly.

AdrianC

We don't know that this 30 was a residential area, or any of the circumstances surrounding it.

Richard53

I can't think of a single location in my area where there is a 30 limit which is NOT residential.

Uxb

I can think of a few where the residential part of the rural village ends and then the 30 limit extends for some considerable length beyond with just rural verge and trees on either side till a turn off to another village perhaps third to 0.5 mile further on.
Police speed van tends to regularly sit in one of these sections - can't think why!