Ello, Ello, Ello! How clean is YOUR licence?

[scaryoldcortina]

Nil poits for me at the moment as well

 

Not always like that though, passed test 1989, 1990 I got done for careless driving (I hit a traffic island with a capri. Yes, it was careless of me, but despite no injuries or anyone else involved at all the court decided I needed 9 points and a £250 fine)

 

Nice and quiet til 1995, when I suddenly and rather surprisingly got arrested in Newcastle for drink driving. The most surprising bit was that I was asleep in bed. I got lifted (on warrant) at 6.30 am 2 days after christmas because 2 DCs found an old (3 years) warrant from a different area, looked me up on the PNC and came round for me. Seems someone gave my name and DOB with a false address sometime in '92 when stopped for DD No-one was happy. Durham Police were obliged to send a car for me, 3 magistrates had to be found for a court sitting ASAP, a duty solicitor was urgently needed too. It took all day to sort out. I got bailed eventually so they could find the arresting PC from the original DD and see if he could remember what I look like. But, they discontinued it instead.

 

1997 3 points, £60 fine, 42 in a 30 from a roadside camera van

2006 3 points, £60 fine, 39 in a 30 - Half ten at night, handheld camera from behind a bush just before the de-restricted sign (and down a 1 in 3 hill) cunts!

 

2007 I got arrested for car theft, but that's another story entirely!

 

and since then clean. Probably cursed myself now though

[Danblez]

17 years old - 6 points and £380 fine because my mate got caught on my motorbike, drunk, with an illegal pillion passenger and speeding.

 

The cops wanted me to say he had taken the bike without consent but I couldn't do that to a mate. What a nobber I was.

 

I am still bitter when I watch police, camera, stop, action interceptors when some crack head nicks a car, has no insurance, runs over a granny,smashes up half a dozen cops cars and gets a £60 fine and 3 points.

 

Last time was in 93 on the potteries way in Stoke driving a Mk 2 Escort 1.6 Ghia. 42 in a 30 zone. Driving around for 2 years with 9 points wasn't so much fun.

 

Been clean since.

[AnthonyG]

OAPs, safety campaigners etc who wave speed guns about have no powers at all. All they could be at the most would be a witness if there was a real copper about, and that copper would have to be the one operating the device.

 

It's just a PR exercise for police forcess/speed camera partnerships/councils.

 

Often the speed guns don't work either because they are dummy ones or because the twats don't know how to use them properly.

[MK5 Escort]

I passed my test in June 2002.

 

Unfortunately, there's nothing interesting to tell you. I've yet to have any points on my licence.

 

I did come VERY close in Liverpool once where I spotted a camera almost alongside me in a 30mph limit. To this day I haven't a clue how I didn’t see it earlier. Daydreaming probably. I was doing about 36/38mph at the time (which was acceptable for the road in my opinion - most limits seem to be about 10/20mph below what they really should be). Luckily nothing was behind me as I slammed on the anchors immediately as I passed it and onto those white dotted lines on the road surface. I didn't hear or receive anything...

 

I'm very surprised I've not been done by any of those ridiculous traffic light cameras either. Those buggers always seem to change just at the 'point of no return' where it’s either a case of perform an emergency stop risking getting rear-ended, or foot down, blast though and hope for the best.

 

I've never had any parking tickets either - although I do have a habit of trying to find free parking (i.e - side streets, supermarkets, small retail parks e.t.c.) rather than those which expect you to empty your wallet for half an hour's parking...

 

OAPs, safety campaigners etc who wave speed guns about have no powers at all. All they could be at the most would be a witness if there was a real copper about, and that copper would have to be the one operating the device.

Correct. They have no authority whatsoever but are under the impression that they are. I was surprised to actually witness a small bunch of OAP’s standing alongside the A56 just outside Mickle Trafford about a year ago. I give them a discreet two fingered salute as I passed.

[gearoil]

Well behaved from 19 - 25 and then...

 

Banned in 2002 for 12 months. Just stacked my 2.8 Capri driving to work half asleep on boxing day, breathe into this Sir...ahh...

 

3pts for doing 40 ish on a deserted industrial road at 11p.m on a weekday evening - i.e with no bugger around except one plod hiding on the verge.

 

Fined twice for no seatbelt.

 

Fined twice on phone. Second time he overlooked I was a) probably speeding frantically trying to put the seatbelt on too.

 

900kgs overweight - £400 fine which the company paid. No points. Phew! Policeman that pulled me was a decent chap, spent a while talking cars waiting for another driver to come and take some of the excess off. VOSA bod that was with him was practically popping out his drawers with excitement at pulling me over. Really made his day. Cunt.

[chaseracer]

OAPs, safety campaigners etc who wave speed guns about have no powers at all. All they could be at the most would be a witness if there was a real copper about, and that copper would have to be the one operating the device...

I got a lecture-by-post from the Constabulary once after a bunch of aged worthies with a hairdryer claimed I had steamed through their exclusive village at the unearthly speed of 37mph. Bollocks I had, since I'd seen them pissing about in the road and was going slowly in case they did something even more unpredictable.

 

Didn't bother pursuing it, for the reasons outlined above...

[ashmicro]

87 in a 30. We didn't have points in NI at that time. I got an endorsement. The magistrate would have sent me to prison if I hadn't been on a motorcycle. Scary.

 

My excuse? I was racing an Esprit.

 

Ever since, I've kept it for the track. I don't think I shall ever forget the way Judge John Adams looked at me that day, until the very day God calls me.

[Pete-M]

I have no idea how people get nicked by scameras.

 

I've only ever been nicked by yer genuine Dibble. I suspect the only reason I've not been done for years is that there are no genuine TrafDibble left.

[Mr Lobster]

Only got done once. 86 on the M62 back in 1999. 3 points. Didn't see the plod Volvo join the sliproad as I steamed along at 5am until it was too late...

[theorganist]

I was 'awarded' three points (and £40 fine I think) for doing 47 in a 30 in a Maestro Diesel (non turbo) in 2000. I did think about asking for extra points for speeding in a Maestro Diesel!

 

I was on the edge of Dorking (an area I didn't know), it was sem-rural. It looked like it should have been at least a 40 limit (well that's my excuse anyway).

[Alexg]

 

My excuse? I was racing an Esprit.

 

 

What! And they still did you?! Bastards

[messerschmitt owner]

Once totted 9 points after being caught three times in two weeks - calmed down a lot and now never speed!

 

Currently three points for overtaking a giffer XJ40 at Leominster doing 35 in a 50 but I went on the sold whites - nabbed by two bike cops, who then spent twenty mins chatting about the roadster.

 

They clear at Christmas.

[Richard]

What's all this about producers? I have NEVER produced my documents. The last time I was done for speeding it was in a taxi, not my own car, so I produced the car's documents but I told them I wasn't producing my licence. They weren't impressed but I never heard any more about it.

 

It's only been chased up once, and all I got was a fine for not having an MOT.

[pandamonium]

2000 - TS10 - VW Polo C - 3 pts for Red light misdemeanor(I was lucky as I was also doing 40 in a 30 but the police car had no speed equipment. Or they just felt sorry for me.)

2002 - CU20 - Hyundai x2 - 3 pts for having no battery clamp!!!

 

2003 SP30 - Hyundai X2 - 3pts for doing 34 in a 30 - bloody mobile camera!

 

2005 - SP30 - Fiat Panda - 3 pts for doing 35 in a 30 - I was actually doing 60+, but the policeman didn't manage to clock that! He was actually really nice about it, and said the main reason for giving me the penalty was as I was driving a matt black Fiat Panda at 60mph , in the dark, in torrential rain (He may have had a point!)

[Mr Lobster]

I was once (about 1994) stopped for doing 105mph and got away with it.

 

Somehow.

 

I'd had a really shitty day at work and came home with the red mist on. Got on the M65 at Blackburn and gave it (1985 Renault 11 1.7 TXE) the full beans.

 

Overtook an ordinary blue Astra who then proceeded to place his blue light on the dashboard and waved his badge.

 

Stopped. Got a thorough bollocking and told "let that be a lesson to you". Then told to get on my way. Bet that wouldn't happen now. Suppose it was just a none traffic plod quietly going about his business who possibly didn't have the authority to actually book me.

[Milford Cubicle]

2002 - CU20 - Hyundai x2 - 3 pts for having no battery clamp!!!

Eh, that's barely an advisory on the MOT.

[warren t claim]

2002 - CU20 - Hyundai x2 - 3 pts for having no battery clamp!!!

Eh, that's barely an advisory on the MOT.

I would of thought you would have to be black or Asian to get points for that.

[Tayne]

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[Richard]

Points only count for three years but they stay on your licence for four and most insurance companies seem to count them for five.

[CortinaDave]

Had a clean licence from passing test in 1997 til 2 years ago when the local plod started a speeding offensive and are now hiding in bushes everywhere.

 

Acquired 7 points - four for 93 on the motorway, and 3 for 47 in a 40 at 4am

 

Then got clobbered doing 98 on the A90 near aberdeen at 1am got 5 points for that so I'm currently sitting on 12 - managed to persuade the judge not to ban me so can still drive at that but having to watch the speedo big time.

[Tayne]

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[Mat.T]

Passed in 2004 at 17 now 24 still got a clean licence, I did however bounce my K10 micra off Coventry ring road at 3 in the morning, bending the rear axle and last year I drove my mazda 323 into a saxo

[Lord Sterling]

I did however bounce my K10 micra off Coventry ring road at 3 in the morning, bending the rear axle

Thats not surprising, the Coventry Ring road is sickingly dire, if ever you want to go back to a dreary, broken version of the early 70s, visit Coventry city centre.

 

* Just for balance (In case there are shiters from there) Some parts of Coventry are really nice.

[Mat.T]

I lived there for 4 years I never saw any nice bits! Kenilworth was nice though.

[mattblack]

Passed my test in '87, never had any points...

 

I did get done not long after I'd passed, driving a Fiat Fiorino van with no MOT, no tax and one trade plate... got pulled as I didn't have my seatbelt on. Got £30 fine for the lack of MOT and that was all...

[worldofceri]

Coventry Ring road is sickingly dire, if ever you want to go back to a dreary, broken version of the early 70s, visit Coventry city centre.

This is autoshite, you're supposed to like that sort of thing.

 

I too have crashed on the Coventry ring road whilst trying to provoke oversteer in my Bedford CF. Result: Epic Fail.

 

 

 

Luckily there were no witnesses to this indiscretion as it was 4 am on a Saturday.

 

As for points: Unfamiliar road which should be NSL + Mobile scameravan = 3 points for doing 50something in a 40.

[warren t claim]

Are dual cab pick up wanker chariots subject to the lower speed limits as they aren't car derived? Even a small Transit can only do 60 on a dual carrigeway and 50 on a nsl 60.

[Guest]

Perfectly clean licence, which I consider to be more than enough credentials for me to take your drunk teenage daughters home from the club circuit.

[warren t claim]

Perfectly clean licence, which I consider to be more than enough credentials for me to take your drunk teenage daughters home from the club circuit.

You mean you retook you driving test under the name of a dead classmate from school when you got banned in your own name? An old illegal minicab trick.

[ProgRocker]

Had a clean licence for 15 years. However, in 2008 I got caught by a scamera for doing 37 mph in a 30 and had to attend a 'driver re-education' course run by Norfolk County Council.

 

Cost me £70 but it kept 3 points off my licence.