Got a speeding ticket

Yeah, it's all been said. I did one of the speed awareness courses...

OP - It looks like (if the speeding was done in the same place as your Trust location) they do the course, Obviously the police have to offer you the course as an alternative, but if they do
It costs £65* to attend a workshop and is offered as an alternative to the £60 fine and 3 penalty points.

* A course will be charged at £70 for all offers dispatched by the Road Safety Unit from 27th July 2010.
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Tonyator said:
Yeah, it's all been said. I did one of the speed awareness courses...

OP - It looks like (if the speeding was done in the same place as your Trust location) they do the course, Obviously the police have to offer you the course as an alternative, but if they do
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SO £65 and a 4 hour lecture on how to drive so i dont have to pay a £60 fine and get 3 points?

Tbh i would much rather the points and pay £5 less.

I dont have the time to go to leicester and sit there for 4 hours.... Costs £10 on the train.

But Then again... If i had no points my insureance wont go up... :)

Will see what they offer me.

The reason i got caught is that they decided to hide the Mobile van partly behind a bush and aimed the camara down a hill, So me coming round the bend off a 40mph stretch of road and hadnt slowed down yet was clocked.

Very unfair but if thats how the counsil wants to make money from me then fair enough, I dont pay the Tax as im a student so meh.
 
Greebo said:
Of course there are people like my parents who never go above 45mph and have never had a ticket in 40 years of driving so some people are getting way more than 1 in 17 years especially people doing high mileages.
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Ah yes, the "40 everywhere" brigade. We all aspire to be part of that exclusive club...
 
humberside police didn't offer me a speeding course, just a straight fine and points, think the copper was having a good day because i felt extremely lucky to get 3 points + £60 for doing 98.5mph. learned my lesson that day as i need to drive for work (~40k miles per year), first points in 10 years.
 
The Council doesn't want to "catch" you and make money of you. You are legally obliged to keep within the speed limit for safety reasons (which if you don't understand you shouldn't be driving). Morons...
 
Phoenixdancer said:
Tbh i would much rather the points and pay £5 less.
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So your opening post asks how to avoid the points, yet paying £5 is too much? What exactly were you hoping for?

Phoenixdancer said:
Very unfair
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No, just evidence of your poor observation.

I've been done 3 times in the last 5 years. I've not even tried to blame anyone else for it. It was my mistake - actually it was my negligence. I was speeding. I was caught.
Suck it up and take some personal responsibility.
 
franco_22 said:
The Council doesn't want to "catch" you and make money of you. You are legally obliged to keep within the speed limit for safety reasons (which if you don't understand you shouldn't be driving). Morons...
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What? When they stick a mobile cam in the ONE place that most people have yet to slow down from the previous 40mph stretch?

very fair that.
 
franco_22 said:
The Council doesn't want to "catch" you and make money of you. You are legally obliged to keep within the speed limit for safety reasons (which if you don't understand you shouldn't be driving). Morons...
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Then why don't they make burglars go on "nicking stuff is bad" courses? Motorists are an easy target given the series of numbers and letters stuck to the back of their vehicles and the veritable safety reasons we often hear about.
 
Only one thing I'd want to be done about speed cameras and that's put the bloody speed on the back of the camera or signs just before.

I've been on some right rural trecks in the past and seen speed cameras in the middle of no-where not knowing what the speed limit was as the last sign I passed was several miles away and was a national speed limit sign but because of the overgrown trees you're never sure if you've missed one. Slowed right down for them, probably for no reason, but there's no way I want points.



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Phoenixdancer said:
What? When they stick a mobile cam in the ONE place that most people have yet to slow down from the previous 40mph stretch?

very fair that.
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Well tbh, it is very fair.

You are meant to slow down BEFORE the '30' sign, not AFTER.

I don't like speed limits at all, and I think they are far too conservative in some places (but good for fuel consumption!), and wildly optimistic in others. But, however much I dislike them, it doesn't stop them being THE LAW. If I got caught by a speed camera, then it would be my fault for breaking the law, not the polices fault for having their cameras in a 30 zone. Unless the camera was pointed at a bit of road with a 40 limit, which seems unlikely.


One thing - near me, there are some places where signs are so rusted, overgrown, or on the floor that it can be difficult to see what the limit is (some places have '20' written on the road, and '30' on a sign right next to it!), which is badness on the part of council or whoever. However, unless that is the case when you get stopped, there still isn't really an excuse.
 
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The Council doesn't want to "catch" you and make money of you. You are legally obliged to keep within the speed limit for safety reasons (which if you don't understand you shouldn't be driving). Morons...
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Except then 2m tickets issued raised £120m in fines?

I was once done by a mobile police van on a dual carriageway going from a 50 mph zone into a 40 mph zone. He clocked me at 45 mph. I was taking my gf to the railway station at the time.

He gave me the ticket, asked me why I was speeding to which I expleined I was running late to the railway station to which he said, and I quote "if it's any concelation we are wrapping up for the day and there are no more speed traps between you and the station and I hope you make your train" :eek:

If that isn;t doing people for the money rather than discouraging them from speeding, I don't know what is.

To the other guy doing over 90, I was once done on the M18 at 96.5 mph. The copper said they had to do 140 to catch up with me and there was times I was doing 125 but they could only do me for the 96.5 between the two diamonds as they didn't habe recording equipment for that in the car but pointed out if I had been over 100 mph it would be court and an instant ban.
 
Doonhamer said:
They put up signs showing you the speed limit. How much fairer do you want it to be.
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I'm with this guy. If you are over the limit you are over the limit. You can talk till you're red in the face about how you're a 'safe' driver and how speed cameras are just there to make money and how unfair it all is, but that doesn't change the fact you have broken the law and of course you should expect to be punished for it.
 
Greebo said:
Except then 2m tickets issued raised £120m in fines?

I was once done by a mobile police van on a dual carriageway going from a 50 mph zone into a 40 mph zone. He clocked me at 45 mph. I was taking my gf to the railway station at the time.

He gave me the ticket, asked me why I was speeding to which I expleined I was running late to the railway station to which he said, and I quote "if it's any concelation we are wrapping up for the day and there are no more speed traps between you and the station and I hope you make your train" :eek:

If that isn;t doing people for the money rather than discouraging them from speeding, I don't know what is.

To the other guy doing over 90, I was once done on the M18 at 96.5 mph. The copper said they had to do 140 to catch up with me and there was times I was doing 125 but they could only do me for the 96.5 between the two diamonds as they didn't habe recording equipment for that in the car but pointed out if I had been over 100 mph it would be court and an instant ban.
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Who's fault is it that you were late? Maybe if you spent less time fooling around with her in bed she wouldn't have been late for her train, im sure the ticket was worth it thou.
 
franco_22 said:
Who's fault is it that you were late? Maybe if you spent less time fooling around with her in bed she wouldn't have been late for her train, im sure the ticket was worth it thou.
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It was ;) But my point is still valid. If tickets are there to stop/discourage speeding what is the point of the policeman telling you that your have a clear run thereafter so indicated that you are okay to speed?
 
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