Friend has got done for speeding :(

If the insurance company asks about previous bans/points when taking out the policy, it's quite clear that they are interested in this kind of thing.
 
Janesy B said:
If the insurance company asks about previous bans/points when taking out the policy, it's quite clear that they are interested in this kind of thing.
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Yup, and my question was whether they were interested in bans.. as I don't recall whether they asked about points or about bans/points in the last quote I filled out.
 
There is a long road where i live. There's no houses. To the left is just a patch of green field the length of the road. On the right is trees, and then a raised bank. There is no speed signes, but all the roads leading up to this road are 30's, so this road remains a 30.

I think it should be 40 at least. When i go on this road i stay at 30 because you sometimes get police cars parked on the field doing speed tests.

If you go 30mph on this road, you get people beeping at you and overtaking you. Quite annoying. :p
 
If he's admitted he was speeding, he's lost his licence.
If he has denied it, he could fight it in court, but it's likely he would lose and he'd probably waste a lot of money on legal costs.
 
amigafan2003 said:
Is it? i normally find it amusing :-)
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Its a bit of both really, i think hang on this is a 30mph road and i am going 30, why the hell are you beeping me?

Not all of us want to break the law! I'd like to keep my licence thanks :p

A lot of people tailgate you on that road to, as if to say "get a move on fool"

Maybe they see a long stretch of road and think its a 70 :confused:
 
Virdi said:
I know the speed seems excessive - But this road is practically a dual carrigeway and there are no clear signs showing 30mph.

This was 07:30 on a Saturday morning - The road was totally clear.
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i had the same problem, got clocked at 52 in a 30. I was honest to the officer, said i was still accelerating upto 60 when he jumped out of the bush. I honestly believed it was a 60. But then i had passed this road 3 times as id got lost so.... :rolleyes:
 
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No way to know what the out come will be, it varies too much between case/area.
 
iaind said:
Otherwise known as a "conviction"
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Fair enough.

Camalot said:
There is a long road where i live. There's no houses. To the left is just a patch of green field the length of the road. On the right is trees, and then a raised bank. There is no speed signes, but all the roads leading up to this road are 30's, so this road remains a 30.

I think it should be 40 at least. When i go on this road i stay at 30 because you sometimes get police cars parked on the field doing speed tests.

If you go 30mph on this road, you get people beeping at you and overtaking you. Quite annoying. :p
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As has been said, on single-carriageways, if there's street lamps and no speed signs, it's a 30. If there's no street lamps and no speed signs, it's a 60, it doesn't actually matter if there's a sign introducing a new speed limit.

I quite enjoy people driving aggressively behind me if I'm in the right mood.. I find the expression on their faces amusing when I slow down from the speed limit to 5mph under, simply because they're 50cm from my rear bumper. Especially effective when they haven't got a hope of overtaking.

Yes they may be in a hurry, but tbh, I don't care. Not only are they driving dangerously by being right up my bumper, but they're essentially trying to get me to speed.. and I take exception to people attempting to put my licence in jeopardy. If they want to get past fine, but they can sit further back, judge the traffic, and as a result accelerate past me more quickly and easily when there's an overtaking opportunity than when they're sat up my bum.
 
uv said:
If this is true, then you can argue that there are no speed limit signings - however, I expect there are. What road was it on?
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Nope

Built-up areas where there is street lighting and a 30mph speed limit are the major exception to the requirement to provide speed limit repeater signs. Direction 11 of TSRGD, paragraph (4), states:
(4) The sign shown in diagram 670 (except when displayed on a variable message sign in the manner mentioned in regulation 58(7)(b)) shall not be placed along —
(a) a road on which there is provided a system of carriageway lighting furnished by lamps lit by electricity placed not more than 183 metres apart in England and Wales or not more than 185 metres apart in Scotland and which is subject to a speed limit of 30mph;
Note that 'shall not be placed' means that repeater signs are prohibited under the conditions specified in subparagraph (a), not just that they are not required. The 183 metre maximum spacing for street lamps in England and Wales is the metric equivalent of the 200 yards specified in the Act.
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The details for the correct lighting are less complicated but it is unlikely that the lighting in said area was out of spec. because it would leave the local authority at risk of litigation for all sorts of things.
So, no speed signs? not a defence in a 30 zone.
 
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