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got caught driving on provisional in 1985.. got £300 fine and 6 points on provisional (young and stupid) passed test in 1991 no points since then (touch wood) but currently disputing £100 parking fine for sitting in loading bay outside vets... though i was collecting 3 dogs that had been neutered the cctv just happens to show my car sitting there from 18.41 until 18.45 doesnt show me getting dogs though, i thought loading bays gave you 20mins...vet is writing me a letter to back up my appeal...

 

more GREED from a corrupt london borough :shock:

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If you want to do pointlessness like parking tickets, then I would not be surprised if I'd recieved moar than 100.

Working in the big smoke for years it was an occupational hazard, to the point where we could claim them on expenses if we could argue reasonable claim against receiving them.

 

That said I have had a fair propotion overturned on appeal, and all of the "private land" ones I have been slapped with have either been successfully ignored or formally instructed to PISS OFF.

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Mine's clean as a whistle somehow.

 

It has to be said, this is probably down to the local Police here in Cumbria, who seem to be more inclined to 'have a word' than issue a ticket. Proper policing. :D Wouldn't like to push my luck too far though.

 

I fear those days are coming to an end though, as more 'Safety Cameras' keep springing up, along with more camera vans. No discretion there, sadly.

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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 :roll:

 

Then got clobbered doing 98 on the A90 near aberdeen at 1am :shock: 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.

Just get a 1300 kent for the Cortina dave, you won't have worry about the speedo for a while :lol:

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Passed my test in 1977 (blimey, I must be the oldest on this site!) had to do hand signals then... beat that! I've had numerous tickets over the 33 years I have been driving, but never for a drunk or dangerous driving. Did get a careless driving tug once.

 

I fought a speeding ticket in the local magistrates court in 1988.... and won! The road between Barnet and Potters Bar used to be a "de-restricted" road (i.e. 60 mph limit) but this was lowered to 40 mph at some stage. The council, Hertsmere, didn't put up the mandatory 40 mph 'repeater" signs on the street lights, so the road had a 30 mph limit, once the "national speed limit" repeaters had been removed. I was charged with exceeding a 40 mph limit. In the court I made I conceded that I had been speeding, but it was unclear as to what the limit was. The Magistrates took the point that the signs were unclear and so any prosecution would be unsafe. As a result I was acquitted-RESULT!!! BUT the road signs were changed within a day or so.

 

What I never understood throughout all this was why the magistrates didn't simply say "you were speeding anyway, regardless of which limit you say you didn't read-you're nicked! £100, please!

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Oh bloody hell, I'm now up to 9 points!! I always try to obey the 30 limit but there's this long, quiet straight out of a village where the 30 limit lingers a bit too long. 47MPH = £60/3 points.

 

I really do need an Austin Cambridge Diesel or a Mercedes 200D to avoid any more speeding tickets.

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Oh bloody hell, I'm now up to 9 points!! I always try to obey the 30 limit but there's this long, quiet straight out of a village where the 30 limit lingers a bit too long. 47MPH = £60/3 points.

 

I really do need an Austin Cambridge Diesel or a Mercedes 200D to avoid any more speeding tickets.

or a car that's not in your name :wink:

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I'm only on 3 at the moment - 52 in a 40 on a dual carraigway measured by a dumb cock of a copper with a fucking stopwatch. From where he was parked you couldn't actually see the first point he'd timed me from.

 

When I complained at how inaccurate it was, he claimed a margin of error of something like 0.01875mph, which was down to the stopwatch measuring to 0.01 of a second.

 

I'd got all my defence worked out (Using proper "human" margins of error for both eyeing up my start and end points and on clicking the stopwatch, I could have been going anywhere from 34 to 58mph (something like that).

I was ready to go to court with it but the date fell right in the week of all my uni exams. I decided I'd just take it on the chin because

1: I was actually doing about 50mph, and

2: 3 Points after 5 years of consistently breaking the speed limit wherever I go isn't that bad going, and

3: I decided I'd MUCH rather have 3 points than possibly fail an exam and have to redo a module and graduate a year later and spend £3k on tuition fees.

 

I was really looking forward to my day in court telling the judge that the way this copper measured my speed wouldn't be acceptable in a GSCE Science report, and that the copper had NO grasp of what he was doing if he was claiming to be accurate to 0.01875MPH.

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or a car that's not in your name :wink:

The Ex's dad was a short ginger man who drove a company BMW like a prick of the highest order. Short man syndrome and a company BMW. He was a branch manager at a cash and carry, and had got 9 points, so he'd got his wife a "job" at the place, and put the company car in her name. "She" then got another 9 points (whilst never have actually driven the car OR worked at the company) and then he tried to get my ex to do the same, on her provisional licence.

Nob!

 

It's not like he even looked anything like his wife - He was a 5'1 9 stone ginger Cyrill Sneer lookalike, and she was dark haired and about 25 stone+.

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HMMM.....passed my test in 1979, got a couple of endorsements for speeding etc over the next few years.......then a long clear spell untill about 1999 when I spotted the hairdrier and braked very, very hard and got caught doing 71mph in a 60 mph zone...which was about 70mph less than I was doing when I spotted them :oops: , the another 70mph in a 60 zone on the A9 at Carrbridge, still don't know what got me...clean again until 2 years ago when I was done for 35mph in a 30mph zone( didn't notice it was a 30mph), filled the form in taking responsability.....no more heard for 7 months, hah must have got off with it then...errr no ! letter arrives saying I need to be in court that day, which is 60 miles away and to be there 4 hours earlier than the post arrived :roll: 6 points and £405 fine later, with no road to appeal I was more than a bit miffed :evil:

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got caught driving on provisional in 1985.. got £300 fine and 6 points on provisional (young and stupid) passed test in 1991 no points since then (touch wood) but currently disputing £100 parking fine for sitting in loading bay outside vets... though i was collecting 3 dogs that had been neutered the cctv just happens to show my car sitting there from 18.41 until 18.45 doesnt show me getting dogs though, i thought loading bays gave you 20mins...vet is writing me a letter to back up my appeal...

 

more GREED from a corrupt london borough :shock:

*update* just got a letter today another ticket in the exact same spot :shock:

 

feckin sick animals...costing me a fortune

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Never had any points. Stopped by police for driving a 'new/expensive car for a young looking lad', I was 17 and the Austin/Rover Metro 1.1 was 9 years old.

 

1 parking ticket (had paid for parking but ticket had fallen off dash) and 1 fine for stopping on a 'Red Route'. I had a flat tyre for fuck sake..

 

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.

Usually limited the same as a car unless it's classed as a commercial vehicle.

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Never had any points. Stopped by police for driving a 'new/expensive car for a young looking lad', I was 17 and the Austin/Rover Metro 1.1 was 9 years old.

 

1 parking ticket (had paid for parking but ticket had fallen off dash) and 1 fine for stopping on a 'Red Route'. I had a flat tyre for fuck sake..

 

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.

Usually limited the same as a car unless it's classed as a commercial vehicle.

But they are a commercial vehicle!

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or a car that's not in your name :wink:

Hey, that's a good idea :twisted: Where can I find one of them......

Posted

Oh bloody hell, I'm now up to 9 points!! I always try to obey the 30 limit but there's this long, quiet straight out of a village where the 30 limit lingers a bit too long. 47MPH = £60/3 points.

 

I really do need an Austin Cambridge Diesel or a Mercedes 200D to avoid any more speeding tickets.

or a car that's not in your name :wink:

That'd work ok for fixed speed cameras and camera vans, not so well for coppers in a Mondeo with a radar gun.

Posted

Oh bloody hell, I'm now up to 9 points!! I always try to obey the 30 limit but there's this long, quiet straight out of a village where the 30 limit lingers a bit too long. 47MPH = £60/3 points.

 

I really do need an Austin Cambridge Diesel or a Mercedes 200D to avoid any more speeding tickets.

or a car that's not in your name :wink:

That'd work ok for fixed speed cameras and camera vans, not so well for coppers in a Mondeo with a radar gun.

Fair point, but it seems to be the speed cameras that get most these days.

 

 

or a car that's not in your name :wink:

Hey, that's a good idea :twisted: Where can I find one of them......

Don't even go there.... It's not in my name either, and there's 4 of us on the insurance.

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My mate got stopped last week, with me in the passenger seat. 48 in a 40, got a warning letter through the post with no further action. Apparently 49mph is the point where you get points.... 5% + 4mph over, according to the very smily copper taking the details.

 

Ironically we'd passed the point on the other side 10 minutes earlier, noticed the two police vans, PC with something camera-looking and WPC on the radio next to him, all high-viz'ed up, and never twigged :)

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or a car that's not in your name :wink:

Hey, that's a good idea :twisted: Where can I find one of them......

Try one of A5's :shock:

Posted

 

or a car that's not in your name :wink:

Hey, that's a good idea :twisted: Where can I find one of them......

Try one of A5's :shock:

Find me one that works :P

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Aye...fair point :wink: mind you I can hardly talk at the moment :roll:

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"i have no comment to make at this time"

 

:(

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Had a clean licence until this year. First was 37 in a new 30mph limit on a dual carriageway in Sheffield. Got offered the Revenue Awareness Course and took it - I'll sit there and smirk at some bearded Guardian reader for an hour to save 3 points. The Police then cancelled the ticket due to a clerical error.

 

Next - just 2 weeks later - was 79 mph on the M74 up it Bonnie Scotland, the land of the cunt police. If you think our cops are bad, the Jocks are absolute bastards. I asked to see the photo to 'identify the driver'. They sent it along with a threat of prosecution of attempting to pervert the course of justice. Why? Because I had my sunvisor down and the overhead cameras only got the botton half of my mug. I replied that it's quite commonplace in England to have the visor down when the sun is out, not something that happens often in Scotland. :lol:

So, they finally got me after 25 years - they must be so proud.

 

Around here, the sly bastards have been replacing 40 signs with 30's all over the place. Driving is now becoming quite unpleasant in the UK.

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passed test in 1988 -

 

clean as a whistle until May 2009 -

 

Morris Minor 35mph in a 30mph zone 3 points and £60!!! - speed camera

 

my speedo wasn't that accurate -

 

in my letter of appeal I suggested that giving a poor old Moggy a ticket was like stealing sweets of a child -

 

no response -

 

humorless buggers

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I was chatting the other day to a mate about this thread, he told me a speeding ticket story.

 

Back in the early days of radar guns, he got pulled over by a roadside "trap" who informed him he was doing 57mph in a 30. They ignored his protests, and also seemed not to notice the lorry that steamed past as he pulled in. So he still has the court papers to prove that a D14 BSA bantam can do 57mph. (which it can't)

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Got speed camera'd on a lonely highway late at night by a mobile camera a few years ago. I glanced at the spedo and saw 122 kmh , expensive.

the ticket arrived for a speed of 112 , cheapo fine. Do I complain that their camers is wrong or just pay up ?

Speed camera fines are only money here, no points. the owner of the vehicle is liable for payment, not the driver, and an allowance of 10 kmh is built in, i.e. a camera in a 100 kmh area will be set at 111 kmh before it operates.

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passed test in 1988 -

 

clean as a whistle until May 2009 -

 

Morris Minor 35mph in a 30mph zone 3 points and £60!!! - speed camera

 

my speedo wasn't that accurate -

 

in my letter of appeal I suggested that giving a poor old Moggy a ticket was like stealing sweets of a child -

 

no response -

 

humorless buggers

 

Scottish Cops? They really are bastards - even my Scottish mates hate them.

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You can get out of mobile van/gatso tickets IF they are in scotland. If you get a demand for you to name the driver through , fill it in and send it back as late as possible but DONT SIGN IT. If its unsigned in Scotland they cant prosecute you for the speeding, but you have fulfilled your obligation to name the driver so they cant do you for that either.

 

They will send it back demanding it be signed and saying you will get done etc - but they can do sod all. They might send a plod to your door to get you to sign, but as long as you dont answer the door theyre screwed. 6 months after offence it times out and you cant be prosecuted.

 

Doesnt work in england sadly.

 

when you send it back to them its worth doing recorded delivery as when they realise they cant get you on the speeding its not unheard of for them to say they never recieved the form.

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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.

Usually limited the same as a car unless it's classed as a commercial vehicle.

But they are a commercial vehicle!

As I have said on here before..

 

Dual-cab pickups are not usually classed as a an atypical commercial vehicle. If you're driving a 2WD single cab pick-up like like a Vauxhall Brava then I believe the normal van speed limits apply. It will also depend on how it's taxed etc. It's not the same for the 'lifestyle' type pick ups. See here:

 

https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/q529.htm

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hand't heard the polis were bad on the M74 - i drive it both ways each week and the average car speed seems well in excess of 70mph so i think you were pretty unlucky...

 

funnily enough - driving from St albans to edinburgh in the Daf was remarkably stressless - you can't go much above 70 and on an A road you are rarely above 60 thanks to the awful drum brakes. In town 30 and 40 is all you have to worry about and I rarely speed in town.

 

maybe I am realising that there are thrills you can have that do not require a 6 cyl 240bhp car!

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SP30, 3pts, £60 fine, May 2006... automatic Ford Focus on the A9, camera van halfway up a hill... caught me (at 85 in a 70) 'cos I'd coasted down one side, by the time I actually passed the van I was down to about 45mph... slushbox Focus 5-up does not a hill climbing car make!

 

Currently got 3 outstanding for an offence which allegedly occurred in August LAST YEAR.... not due in court until September 22nd! Spoke to one of the then head men at Helen Street (friend of a friend of a friend!) who stated categorically that traffic wouldn't have done me as no offence was committed, so instead got the cack handed unmarked panda car fffkup which actually happened! Still, looking forward to the appearance...

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