Poll: How many points do you have on your licence?

How many points do you have on your driving licence?

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None atm, but was doing at least 50 in a 40 on the link road out of Chelmsford to the A12 on Sunday and drove past police with a hand held camera, just waiting for the letter to arrive :(
 
Feek said:
Inspired by people saying how many points they have in that other thread about being banned, I thought it might be interesting to know what points people currently have.

I never reached more than six on my licence but I think that the first three might actually have expired before I got the second three.

I've been points clear since this.

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I was done once before this but they came off when I moved. I had three points for doing 103MPH up the M6 in the mid 80s. In a 1.4 Astra. Yes, it was flat out. I was much younger.

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Was there a speed difference between the two? Just interesting why the one in 1988 was nearly twice the fine of the 1992 one. You'd have thought it'd be the other way around if they'd increased the fine.
 
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Was there a speed difference between the two? Just interesting why the one in 1988 was nearly twice the fine of the 1992 one. You'd have thought it'd be the other way around if they'd increased the fine.
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The first one was on the A12, southbound around Colchester. I'd pulled off and onto the A120 heading towards Braintree before I got pulled and I have no recollection of what my speed was. The second one was driving along Oxford Road in Clacton-on-Sea at about half past midnight. I was heading back to the office after having been out at an exhibition and suddenly there was a single headlight in my mirror. He pulled in behind me at the unit and told me I'd done 34mph past him and showed me the gun. Knowing I was going to be done, I suggested I was transmitting on the radio which may have affected the reading. He first questioned if I was using a hand microphone and then said that the speed guns are calibrated. He also said that if I wanted to hold the gun, he'd transmit on my radio to demonstrate that it didn't affect it. I said that's not allowed because he doesn't have a licence and he told me it didn't matter because "I'm above the law".

Yes, I did put a complaint in afterwards and received an apology for that comment. And I took my three points.

I knew as soon as I saw him that I was getting done, that particular plod had a reputation at the time, he'd nick anyone and everyone for even the tiniest infraction.

/edit - The first thing he said when we stopped was "didn't you see me back there by the carpet shop?" When I said no, he said "what if I'd been a small child about to run into the road?" to which my reply was "At midnight?".
 
3 points. Was on a road I hadn’t been on before, clear 70mph road, on cruise control, looking out for my junction and didn’t spot the 50 sign.


Went into the 50 at 70 and got 3 points and £100 fine.


Otherwise nothing - I tend to be on cruise control at the speed limit wherever possible.
 
3, and only got them rather recently.

That's 20 years of driving, although I did get a minor DUI when I was 19 and my biking history will tell you that I've had periods of my life when I thought I was invincible. The older I get the more careful I get though.
 
0. Never had any. Got none in NZ either.

Edit: And in NZ it's not unusual to have cars coming at you on the wrong side of the road.

Oh and there was the time an old BMW just drove off into a field. We stopped to see if they were ok, they just popped their head out with a big grin and a thumbs up before driving back onto the road :cry:
 
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0. I've never received points, but I have had to attend a speed awareness course. It was in 2021, so it was over zoom. I'm not sure if they're back face to face now.
 
All you need to avoid getting any points is waze :D

All cameras are marking on it. Police get flagged in about 0.3 seconds of setting up a van
 
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0 but I did do a course a year or so ago for doing 81 on the motorway.

The thing about that was there was a horribly posh woman on the course who spent the entire time justifying speeding AND dangerous driving if, in one example she gave, someone was holding her up. "Well, if one is being held up and you've flashed your lights at them, driven right up to their bumper and they still don't let you past, what choice do you have but to speed to get past them?"

Quite how they can just let her go on her merry way after saying things like that is beyond me.
 
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About a decade ago, after a year hooning around in my previous 500hp RS6 without issue, I sold the car and the very next day picked up some sheddy Citroen C5 and got a speeding ticket within 500 yards of driving it 35 in a 30! About 15+ years ago I got done for the very first time (3 points for 35 in a 30 again) but never saw the van/camera/whatever that caught me, just a complete surprise to get a speeding fine one day!

My mates wife however is extremely special - she got a speed awareness course rather than points but on the drive home from the venue (Stafford IIRC) she got done by a camera for 3 completely avoidable points!
 
0 because I commute to work on a train, I only use my car for basic shopping , so it hardly moves

Even if it moves, it can't go very fast because it is an old ford fiesta, and going anything over 50 will cause the rust that holds it together to disintegrate
 
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None. Thought I got caught by a mobile speed camera van strategically placed on the other side of the brow of a hill.

About 20 years ago, both my parents were caught at the same camera 2 days apart. Its a camera just in a 30mph from a 40mph.
 
None but was caught speeding ( just to be clear, there were two speed limits in the same village and the 2nd sign was tiny and i was looking out for pedestrians and not for miniature signs )

Interestingly the law is the UK is so bad that i knew a man who had 17 points and was still not banned because he said he needed to drive for his work.
The man wheelspins out of junctions and allows his own son to sit in the passenger seat without a seatbelt.
 
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