Missus done for speeding x3 in a week!

[CreAtiv3]

Afternoon all

My other half has received her third speeding ticket within a week!
She has been caught doing 57, 59, 55 on her commute to work via the A43 in Northampton by those SPECS average speed cameras. The road is a 50 however for some reason she was under the impression it was a 60...
As she's only been driving for 18 months it looks like her licence will be revoked resulting in her loosing her job (buses do not start early enough to get her there remotely on time).

Clutching at straws here but is there any way she can contend these points? Tickets were with issued on the 8th, 12th and 14th (I think) of October.

Cheers

 

[Conanius]

Guilty on all 3 pleading mitigating circumstances that without her income, which she would be unable to get due to inadequate public transport options, you would be left without a home is probably the best shout I could think of.

 

[Gaygle]

Jesus.

 

[[TW]Fox]

Pretty sure there is no mitigating circumstances with revocation under the New Drivers thing.

She can retake her test right away though so she could use annual leave?

 

[Gaygle]

Guilty on all 3 pleading mitigating circumstances that without her income, which she would be unable to get due to inadequate public transport options, you would be left without a home is probably the best shout I could think of.

Even if they decided for some reason to "forget" about one of the speeding fines, she'd still have 6pts which means she'd be getting her licence revoked and would have to start again.

Since they probably wouldn't do that, she'd lose her licence, have to reapply for it and when she got it back it'd have 9 points on it, which means that if she got another 3 points for anything in the next 3 years, she'd be banned from driving.

Wimmin

 

[Vonhelmet]

Inadequate signage? Although that's a massively long shot, as it almost certainly will be more than adequately signed.

 

[taximike]

Talk to a solicitor. I am pretty sure if you go to court on all three it's unlikely you'll get 9 points. I think a very similar thing happened to a friend of mine's father, he got 3 tickets in a week at the same place and he went to court and they only gave him 3 points.

 

[Gaygle]

The road is a 50 however for some reason she was under the impression it was a 60...

I didn't see this bit?

Despite having to travel that road regularly, she didn't notice the huge "50" signs? Or even that everyone else was religiously sticking to 50mph and she was whizzing past them at a likely indicated 65mph+

 

[Janesy B]

I've used the A43 from the M1, both towards Northampton and Towcaster and the signage is clear.

 

[Gaygle]

n/m - ****ing image scaling.

 

[Pudney]

I didn't see this bit?

Despite having to travel that road regularly, she didn't notice the huge "50" signs? Or even that everyone else was religiously sticking to 50mph and she was whizzing past them at a likely indicated 65mph+

In fairness when my speedo says I'm doing 60 my GPS says I'm doing 58/9 so it's perfectly plausible she thought it was 60 and was driving at 60.

 

[PMKeates]

I think cases like this make you think there probably needs to be some kind of adjustment to the way points are dealt out. Doing <10 MPH over the limit is something that the majority of people do on a regular basis, yet in this case it's going to potentially cost somewhere their job and who knows what else just because she has been caught. The punishment really does not fit the victimless crime.

Growing numbers of arbitrary rules and special enforcement measures that are taking cases out of the courtroom, a place where you are meant to be judged by your peers (and a place where your peers CAN ignore the facts of the law if they feel morally obliged to do so), are a worrying aspect of modern justice.

 

[DRZ]

Are there likely to be any more due? If she has been commuting through there regularly it could all be academic as she might well be banned for totting up anyway!

 

[Dale V]

be a man and take some points for her??

otherwise that road is clearly signed 50

 

[james.miller]

In fairness when my speedo says I'm doing 60 my GPS says I'm doing 58/9 so it's perfectly plausible she thought it was 60 and was driving at 60.

my speedo under-reads by 10% lol, would likely explain why i found a few speeding tickets in the handbook when i bought it

 

[taximike]

I think cases like this make you think there probably needs to be some kind of adjustment to the way points are dealt out. Doing <10 MPH over the limit is something that the majority of people do on a regular basis, yet in this case it's going to potentially cost somewhere their job and who knows what else just because she has been caught. The punishment really does not fit the victimless crime.

Growing numbers of arbitrary rules and special enforcement measures that are taking cases out of the courtroom, a place where you are meant to be judged by your peers (and a place where your peers CAN ignore the facts of the law if they feel morally obliged to do so), are a worrying aspect of modern justice.

Yes but you ALWAYS have the right to take it to court. You won't get judged by your peers though; magistrates are idiots without law degrees and that winds me up more than anything!

 

[TheDean]

I was under the impression that it was only within the first 12months after passing they could revoke your licence for 6 points or more :/

 

[Janesy B]

I was under the impression that it was only within the first 12months after passing they could revoke your licence for 6 points or more :/

Two years. New driver act...

 

[Will Gill]

I pretty sure someone said here (making it tr00 fakt) that no-one will ever get done by a SPEC's system

I must now dedicate my life to finding the thread and adding "lol smokey13" to his/her post!

 

[antijoke]

I remember that post Will.