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It's not a fast lane, it's an overtaking lane. Where did you get your license? A vending machine?
Speeding on a motorway
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It's not a fast lane, it's an overtaking lane. Where did you get your license? A vending machine?
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Oh dear.
If the conditions/visibilty was good & I was in a decent car I'd only expect 3 points but if I was tail gating/switching lanes/it was raining/low lights etc I'd expect 6 or more.
To be really honest I'd be more pleased that old bill only clocked me @ 97mph & not over a 100 as I think that's an instant ban. (Correct me if I'm wrong)
To be really honest I'd be more pleased that old bill only clocked me @ 97mph & not over a 100 as I think that's an instant ban. (Correct me if I'm wrong)
Let me guess: someone high up the greasy pole decided too many people were being "let off" and not being sent to court?
Welcome to OcUK Motors. Guessing you are very new to driving.
When you have done a bit more motorway driving and see the problems this causes you will think back to this comment and think "what a silly sod I was back then"
If you have been driving a long time, well....
Indeed
What guidelines will the central decision be based on?
I imagine it will be speed alone.
Because everyone knows that speed is the only determining factor in all accidents.
For pretty much exactly that I got a court appearance, £250 fine and 4 points. That in itself wasn't so bad, but the cumulative increase on my insurance of about £1000 over the next four years was not so good!
The irony being if I had got an SP30 for doing something like 45mph in a 30 zone (in my eyes much worse) rather than an SP50, the insurance company would most likely not have cared.
In my case the weather was fine, visibility good, and the officer even noticed my lane discipline was good (I had passed several cars).
The irony being if I had got an SP30 for doing something like 45mph in a 30 zone (in my eyes much worse) rather than an SP50, the insurance company would most likely not have cared.
In my case the weather was fine, visibility good, and the officer even noticed my lane discipline was good (I had passed several cars).
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I assume the traffic officer still has a some input into this. If you were clocked at 97mph he/she could surely just report that you were doing 85mph if they believed you didn't deserve the full punishment a 97mph conviction would give you.
Seems stupid removing the decision from ther person who has pulled you over and can take in the multiple variables before deciding what fine, if any, to pass on to the driver.
Seems stupid removing the decision from ther person who has pulled you over and can take in the multiple variables before deciding what fine, if any, to pass on to the driver.
You know in the states the guidelines are to stay as central as possible and pass on both sides. This improves traffic flow and safety. Its definitely much smoother to drive centrally on multi lane motorways, resulting in much fewer lane changes. If i am set on cruise control at 75mph for example, keeping left will result in lane weaving as you pass trucks and slow moving vehicles endlessly. Staying central results in a smooth journey with little manipulation needed. Outside lane people should simply pass on the nearside if a slower vehicle is there.
Of course nobody seems to understand this, favouring the "keep left" nonsense, which results in many lane changes and people getting frustrated with one another.
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Sounds silly to remove discretion from the traffic cop. 97 in a car capable of doing it on a quiet motorway is safer than then same speed in a clapped out heap on bald tyres weaving in and out of the traffic. A magistrate is a local volunteer with potentially zero driving experience, a traffic copper is trained and they don't put newly qualified ones straight into motorway cars.
I'd expect 3 or 6 points and a fine - assuming license was clean. If there's already points on it, then it is clear that the lesson isn't being learned - so a stiffer fine.
Last time I was done was for 94.98mph on a quiet sunday morning travelling east on the M62. They were very proud of of the 2 digits of accuracy
That was 3 points and 60 quid fine (in 1997!).
I'd expect 3 or 6 points and a fine - assuming license was clean. If there's already points on it, then it is clear that the lesson isn't being learned - so a stiffer fine.
Last time I was done was for 94.98mph on a quiet sunday morning travelling east on the M62. They were very proud of of the 2 digits of accuracy
That was 3 points and 60 quid fine (in 1997!).
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There is always discretion to be used, as it just depends what you put down on the ticket.
That is common sense. Assuming the poster meant the outside lane when he said 'fast lane' then we are talking about cars that stay in the outside overtaking lane.
There is no problem if the traffic is busy, but when you are on a empty 3 lane motorway and some dipstick in a 1.2 clio is pottering along in the outside lane when the middle and inside lane is quite clear, it can be annoying.
Plus, i am pretty sure the highway codes are there for a reason.
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Pretty much sums it up.
Those selfish little puny engined drivers slowing me down when i have the cruise stuck at 97mph
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Regarding undertaking, if some plebian is in the outside lane doing say, 65mph, and you're in the middle doing 72 (my speedo is 2mph out 
) would you slow down, and pull into the outside lane, or just creep past in the middle?
) would you slow down, and pull into the outside lane, or just creep past in the middle?
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High five and a complimentary Big Mac.
1.1.6. The thresholds under which the courses will operate have been laid
down by ACPO and are at the prosecution threshold of 10% +2 mph to
a maximum of 10% +9 mph over the statutory limit. However it is a
bandwidth within which a police force may consider diverting an offender
and this does not remove local decision-making using the attendant
circumstances which may well warrant an alternative method of disposal,
such as taking no further action, a warning letter, conditional offer a
fixed penalty, or summons.