Down a one way street the wrong way

G-MAN2004

G-MAN2004

G-MAN2004

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Back in Feb my mum accidentally went down a one way street the wrong way after her satnav told her to turn down it. There happened to be a police car a few cars behind which of course pulled her over and that was that. She apologised and admitted guilt because obviously she should have been paying more attention, etc. No disputing that.

She's just had the letter back from the magistrates court though and she's been fined £400 and three points...

Does this not seem rather high? Looking online, most websites say it will be £100 fine and three points. :confused:


What's annoying is that she provided all the details of her finances which clearly show she wouldn't be able to afford to pay anything close to this amount in such a short length of time, so now I'm going to have to lend it...

A mate of mine got less for speeding and surely that's more dangerous than this...
 
G-MAN2004 said:
Back in Feb my mum accidentally went down a one way street the wrong way after her satnav told her to turn down it. There happened to be a police car a few cars behind which of course pulled her over and that was that. She apologised and admitted guilt because obviously she should have been paying more attention, etc. No disputing that.

She's just had the letter back from the magistrates court though and she's been fined £400 and three points...

Does this not seem rather high? Looking online, most websites say it will be £100 fine and three points. :confused:


What's annoying is that she provided all the details of her finances which clearly show she wouldn't be able to afford to pay anything close to this amount in such a short length of time, so now I'm going to have to lend it...

A mate of mine got less for speeding and surely that's more dangerous than this...
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Why did it even go to magistrates court? This stuff is normally sorted with a 3 pts £100 conditional offer.

Did she fail to reply to the ticket?
 
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Has she missed/ignored the initial letter, not paid the on the spot fine? Sounds like the fine has escalated to the courts.

Should have been £100 fine and 3 points - more to the story?

Can I be fined for driving the wrong way down a one-way street?​

Both failing to comply with a traffic sign and careless driving carry £100 on-the-spot fines, as well as three penalty points on your licence.

Ignoring a traffic sign could even see you fined up to £1,000 if you contest the charge and it goes to court.
 
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Always worried that Google Maps will send me down the wrong street. There's a nearby road closed now permanently that has been pedestrianised that Google Maps still thinks you can drive down. Luckily I noticed it was closed a few weeks before I had to make the trip that would have involved going down that road.

On the day I would have noticed anyway but I like to plan in advance.
 
nlel1975 said:
Always worried that Google Maps will send me down the wrong street.
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Had this recently while working in away. The road layout around the city centre had changed and every morning Google Maps would guide me down a bus only route and then go crazy with the re-routing. Getting food delivered to the hotel was also frustrating watching the drivers on the app going around in circles trying to get to my location.

In busy central areas, for roads I'm not familiar with, I hold back and try not to be the lead car. Less chance of driving through a bus gate.
 
Gaygle said:
Why did it even go to magistrates court? This stuff is normally sorted with a 3 pts £100 conditional offer.

Did she fail to reply to the ticket?
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She wasn't given a fine when it happened. They took her details, explained the charge and then she received a letter about 4 months later.

In this letter it asked her to tick either guilty or not guilty, and whether or not she wanted to go to court. She put guilty and said no. This was then sent back and delivered with about three weeks left on the time limit.

The officer did ask at the time if she consented to doing an awareness course if the opportunity was there which she of course said yes, but this was never offered in the letter.
 
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Sounds like something went amiss, doubt they'd have been asking about awareness courses if they were planning on bypassing the FPN process anyway to send it straight to magistrates (which might be expected if they thought the offence was particularly bad).
 
Mujja said:
In busy central areas, for roads I'm not familiar with, I hold back and try not to be the lead car. Less chance of driving through a bus gate.
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This is a thing I learnt to do on my last job very well, driving around towns and places I'm not familiar with. If you can (SAFELY!) pull over to let some cars go past, follow them and try to make sure nobody is behind you.

This gives you time to see where the flow of traffic goes as well as holding back to read the road signs properly without peeing off drivers behind you.

Cars should have plates on the back to indicate you're new to these roads / don't live round here so people don't get right up your behind and think you're an idiot because you're going so slow, reading and noting the signs etc. :)
 
Seems a little harsh, I frequently delver to a builders merchant that's on a one way street, the only way to get a 54ft articulated truck in there is to reverse up the one way street (it's too long to negotiate the bend going in the correct way) the staff stop the traffic and direct me up, plenty of times the police have just happened to be passing and actually help with stopping the traffic, never had an issue with them and no mention of any offence being committed even if in the letter of the law it has been....
 
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G-MAN2004 said:
She wasn't given a fine when it happened. They took her details, explained the charge and then she received a letter about 4 months later.

In this letter it asked her to tick either guilty or not guilty, and whether or not she wanted to go to court. She put guilty and said no. This was then sent back and delivered with about three weeks left on the time limit.

The officer did ask at the time if she consented to doing an awareness course if the opportunity was there which she of course said yes, but this was never offered in the letter.
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It sounds like she's missed an initial letter which should come through in around 4 weeks. Have you got a photograph of the letter you've described?
 
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