45-50 in a 40
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The article only mentions 14 days and over that the courts can't prosicute as it will be out of time. Did you bother to read that article at all?
The article only mentions 14 days and over that the courts can't prosicute as it will be out of time. Did you bother to read that article at all?
what else does it need to mention ?
it confirms what ive just said, you need to receive the NIP in 14 days. not be sent it. And just for good measure
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6898147.ece
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2698934/Speeding-fines-hit-by-postal-strike.html
http://www.motoringlawyersonline.co...ntended-prosecutions-caught-in-postal-strike/
http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=45816
http://www.5ive-o.org/forum/showthr...elps-speeding-motorists-escape-fines&p=372087
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/8332523.stm
that enough links for you ?
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Same, but I like to do them in full view of the law so I know I'm doing it right.
Love,
The Bandit
Urrm http://www.motorlawyers.co.uk/procedure/notice_of_intended_prosecution.htm
The 14 day rule relates only to the period of time in which the Police/Process Unit must serve the original Notice. The Police do not have to prove that the Notice reached its intended recipient within 14 days.
sorry but your wrong
the high court ruled on this.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/8332523.stm
You have to receive it within 14 days.
Same, but I like to do them in full view of the law so I know I'm doing it right.
Love,
The Bandit
You seem to making making a "OAAARRRRGH" like shape with your lips, then the coppers really know your giving it a go
I've never understood the 45-50 in a 40 zone. Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about baby killing, but if you're only doing say 45, how much faster are you really going to get to your destination than someone doing 40?
More to the point, you're just opening yourself to get points/fined. Lastly, by getting fined, you're helping to justify the cameras, meaning that the country is covered in them.
If people stopped day to day breaking the speed limits by small levels, their wouldn't been the funds to justify the cameras, and on the days that a very small percentage of the population want to have some genuine fun in their cars, we'd be fine.
More to the point, you're just opening yourself to get points/fined. Lastly, by getting fined, you're helping to justify the cameras, meaning that the country is covered in them.
If people stopped day to day breaking the speed limits by small levels, their wouldn't been the funds to justify the cameras, and on the days that a very small percentage of the population want to have some genuine fun in their cars, we'd be fine.
You were on a bike... don't they only gauge speed coming towards them? You got a numberplate on the front?
I always find it helps when you wave as you pass them
Perhaps not, but then they'd probably just argue that the cameras are obviously a success, so they can justify funding for more cameras for other locations.
Am I too late to the party?
I had just finished overtaking someone if that counts? He flashed me tons and I thought "what a **** for flashing someone who overtakes". I realise now he was flashing to warn me of the camera van on the flyover
EDIT: Yes, there were photos without "TIMEOUT" on, before anyone asks
I had just finished overtaking someone if that counts? He flashed me tons and I thought "what a **** for flashing someone who overtakes". I realise now he was flashing to warn me of the camera van on the flyover
EDIT: Yes, there were photos without "TIMEOUT" on, before anyone asks
It's not about going that extra 5mph faster to get to the destination that little bit sooner. It's about making the judgment that, taking in to account the current conditions of the road, it's perfectly safe for me to do 45/50 instead of 40.
I'm not consciously doing 50 to get to my destination sooner, it's more that doing 50 in this particular stretch of road is no more dangerous than doing 40.
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Now I am often accused of being a goody goody but if the limit is 40 then why not just stick to 40 rather than deciding that in your opinion 50 is fine. Never quite understood why some people need to go faster than the displayed limits, but as I say I am often called a rule follower in life rather than breaker. I honestly can't recall exceeding the speed limit in any of the decades I have been on the roads, have just never seen why I would need to.
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One lovely little technicality is that they only have to register the registered keeper of the vehicle within 14 days. If this happens to be a lease company or similar, they then have months to find the driver. As a result, the last time I was done, I didn't hear anything about it until three months later. I did make a point of checking with the lease company to ensure that they'd had the original NIP within 14 days of the offence, which they had - they'd just taken their sweet time informing me!
OK, fair comment, different people have a variety of reason for chosing to break the speed limit. Either way, I stand by my viewpoint that if people kept to the speed limits for 95% of the time, that we wouldn't have speed cameras, and that we'd be find having fun on an occasional basis.