Driving offence -no ticket

kam1186

sorry confirm I was NOT prosecuted. haha

born_again

AdrianC said:

Three in an unmarked suggests they weren't traffic, and just thought your driving was too stupid to ignore - but they wanted to get back to the real, far more important, reason they were there.

Why?

Plenty of unmarked traffic cars. Especially if you watch the programs. 👍

CliveOfIndia

born_again said:

AdrianC said:

Three in an unmarked suggests they weren't traffic, and just thought your driving was too stupid to ignore - but they wanted to get back to the real, far more important, reason they were there.

Why?

Plenty of unmarked traffic cars. Especially if you watch the programs. 👍

I'm going to guess perhaps because there were three occupants?  One or two would be more common for traffic cops.  No reason they couldn't have 3, of course, just that it's not so common to see 3-up for routine traffic patrols.

But you're right, there are plenty of unmarked traffic cars around, I've seen them stopping people loads of times.  In fact, on a stretch of dual carriageway near me there are actually signs up saying "Unmarked patrol cars in operation".

northwalesd

kam1186 said:

sorry confirm I was NOT prosecuted. haha

Quite an important distinction 😁

DjangoUnchained

in my 40 + years of driving i have been stopped 3 times, for silly mistakes. Each time i was polite and apologetic and sent on my way without any further comeback. I teach my kids to be the same, even if they believe the police were wrong. If the police want to take it further then comes the time to argue the case.

CliveOfIndia

DjangoUnchained said:

in my 40 + years of driving i have been stopped 3 times, for silly mistakes. Each time i was polite and apologetic and sent on my way without any further comeback.

Commonly called the "attitude test".  You're absolutely right, for minor "offences" it can work wonders.  A common example being a tail light bulb that's gone.  Strictly speaking it's an offence and you could get fined.  In practice, as long as you're polite and promise to get it fixed straight away, they'll let you on your way.  Though it does give them the opportunity to go over the car with a fine tooth comb, if there are other faults they may not be so lenient.

I had an example of this several years ago.  Coming into town, got pulled over, turns out I was doing marginally more than 30 mph (not by much, mind).  They flagged me down into a side road, and did the same to the guy immediately behind me.

One copper gave me the obligatory lecture whilst his mate was looking all round the car - tyres, lights, everything.  I, of course, was profusely apologetic, admitted I was going a bit too fast, etc. etc.  After a few minutes he sent me on my way and nothing more came of it.  As I was pulling away, I saw them giving the guy behind me a ticket.  No idea what for (he had been doing exactly the same speed as me), but I'm guessing that either he failed the attitude test or they found some faults with his car.