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peter

peter

peter

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Nissan leaf ( mine ) first speeding offence aged 57. New years day morning no traffic on the road I got done for doing 27 mph. They had changed the speed limit to 20 mph since the last time I used the road. Near a school I understand and it is my fault for not noticing . The road must be a mile long and straight.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8...uGBAul9yDSBKbUqNOy2A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
Still it will be fun on a speed awareness course explaining why I was doing 27mph :-)
 
20mph is agonising.

The course didn't really make much of a point to an individuals speeding circumstances, in fact I rather enjoyed the course it was delivered well and not at all condescending. It was my first offence and frankly given my younger days, 48 in 40 was a good day to get caught ;)
 
I thought 20 mph zones were only in effect during school times, the ones around me are as they have flashing lights to show when in effect.
 
Coppers were out in force over the holidays. Thought I'd been got myself for doing near 40 in a 30 on Boxing Day. Saw them pointing their gizmo and everything. Waited for the dreaded NIP letter but nothing arrived.
 
Child killer! Deserves a 12 month ban and 6 points imo.
20mph zone is a joke 30 is more than adequate when going past schools
 
MooMoo444 said:
Mmm well fingers crossed. Can't imagine a letter takes over a week even if they somehow sent it on deadline day.
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Depends, I just received an insurance renewal letter this morning (17th)dated 9th January regarding a policy that expired on the 16th :p
 
I went on an awareness course, and I was really shocked at the lack of knowledge displayed by those attending. I found myself answering the "questions" the instructors out to the audience 9/10 times and there were 24 people there. Some of this was undoubtedly people just not caring and just wanting to sit through it, but from my memory there were some quite fundamental misunderstandings about speed cameras, especially average and variables, and also what constitutes a dual carriageway.

Anyway, this is relevant to 20mph zones in general, I get the feeling this area isn't the only one experiencing similar https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.te...-dangerous-costly-reverse-council-admits/amp/
 
My biggest surprise doing the Speed awareness course was being the youngest in the room by at good 10 years at the age of 24.

I saw the same as Zefan, very few had any idea what constituted dual/single carriage way at what that meant the actually limit was in an NSL zone
 
MooMoo444 said:
A few road signs, and a couple guys to update said signposts really cost almost a million?
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Hours of conferences, planning if the signs will replace the existing 30 signs or be put slightly to the left. These conferences centres cost money, it all adds up. Nice to see council tax being used as it should!
 
Frozennova said:
My biggest surprise doing the Speed awareness course was being the youngest in the room by at good 10 years at the age of 24.

I saw the same as Zefan, very few had any idea what constituted dual/single carriage way at what that meant the actually limit was in an NSL zone
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I’ve done two (one while Northamptonshire was one of the counties trialling it and the other after it rolled out nationwide) and saw exactly the same. More than 50% of attendees...:
- didn’t know what the NSL actually was and how it applied to different vehicles and road types
- didn’t understand how a dual carriageway is defined
- didn’t know that anywhere with a system of street lights is a 30mph limit by default unless signed otherwise

Shocking really how little knowledge people had.
 
It's interesting. A friend of mine has an office next door to the local speed awareness place and so I'm hanging around there fairly often. The demographics are what got me. 10% middle aged blokes with pot bellies. 10% boy racers. 80% women of all ages but in particular 20-40s. School run mums.
 
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