Error on speeding ticket

asakusa

Hello, I have received a Notice of Intended Prosecution for doing 43mph in a 30mph zone. My mistake, I simply thought I was in a 40 zone. I believe I was caught by a manual police speed camera rather than a yellow box camera but interestingly they wrote the incorrect road name on the Notice.  Does this make any difference? Thank you.

sheenas

Well it does open the box to questioning the evidence as you could simply reply saying that you were not on that road at that time. Do you know the speed limit on the road mentioned?

soolin

asakusa said:

Hello, I have received a Notice of Intended Prosecution for doing 43mph in a 30mph zone. My mistake, I simply thought I was in a 40 zone. I believe I was caught by a manual police speed camera rather than a yellow box camera but interestingly they wrote the incorrect road name on the Notice.  Does this make any difference? Thank you.

The regulars on this board are excellent for giving advice on parking issues but for speeding issues a different site is recommended

https://www.ftla.uk/speeding-and-other-criminal-offences/

best not to try posting with a Hotmail account, and read their FAQs about how to present information. 

HillStreetBlues

Have a read of this thread about wrong location.https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6623676/nip-wrong-location

Okell

HillStreetBlues said:

Have a read of this thread about wrong location.https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6623676/nip-wrong-location

And this is the corresponding thread on FTLA  NIP has wrong location

TooManyPoints

Whilst a deficiency in the NIP may help defend the speeding allegation, the issue for you at present is responding to the "Request for Driver's details".

How wrong is the location?

Mildly_Miffed

asakusa said:

Hello, I have received a Notice of Intended Prosecution for doing 43mph in a 30mph zone. My mistake, I simply thought I was in a 40 zone.

This is a case where a speed awareness course would be a really useful reminder of what you learned for your test... But, at 43mph, you're just outside the threshold - so you're looking at 3pts and £100 fixed penalty.

Without regular signage repeating the limit, it cannot have been a 40 limit. Or, to turn it round, it could only have been a 40 if there was a regular sign telling you that.

You can ALWAYS tell within 100m or so what the speed limit is, just through your normal basic observation of what's going on around your car.

Repeaters? That's the limit.

No repeaters, but there are streetlights? 30, unless you're in Wales, then it's 20.

No repeaters or streetlights? Count the carriageways. One? 60. Two? 70. Not lanes, carriageways.

user1977

asakusa said:

but interestingly they wrote the incorrect road name on the Notice.

What do you mean by "incorrect"? Is it an actual road (but the wrong one)? Or something which is obviously an error like a spelling mistake?

asakusa

Good morning.
Thanks all for your replies.
They have on the notice 'A25 GODSTONE ROAD, BLETCHINGLEY' and '7567 - Site Location Code'.
The Godstone Road turns into High Street. I was photographed at the other end of the High Street, about 700m from the end of Godstone Road.  

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asakusa said:

Good morning.
Thanks all for your replies.
They have on the notice 'A25 GODSTONE ROAD, BLETCHINGLEY' and '7567 - Site Location Code'.
The Godstone Road turns into High Street. I was photographed at the other end of the High Street, about 700m from the end of Godstone Road.  

Godstone Road is probably the location of the camera, 700m is not unreasonable for a ping.

I doubt if there is sufficient error in the location, but by all means try the suggestions.

Keep_pedalling

The recent case over on FTLA had a location on a different A road and as the guy was driving a taxi he also had proof he was nowhere near the claimed route.