first speeding ticket

[miguel_costello]

just got home to find a letter from the law!

camera got me doing 60mph in a 50mph zone, what a ludicrously fast speed! i wasn't aware motor vehicles could even dream of achieving such dizzying velocity

oh well, 60 quid it is then. and 3 points. absolute balls. had one of these in a car but that was years ago. that was the bastard camera van at the M4 severn toll plaza! license to print money if you ask me....

in all seriousness though i can't even picture where the camera that got me this time was, clearly not paying enough attention. which actually is not good.

is there anything i can do?? apart from slow down of course...

[Wilson123]

Use high beam at night so you can see the reflection of police cars and speed cameras

Other than that, keep your eyes open

Happens to the best of us
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[kitty kat]

Join the club Bet quite a few of us on here have 3 points on our licence. I currently am carrying 3 from last June when I got caught doing 42 in a 30. My fault totally, I wasn't watching the change in speed limit, I had just left a 40 limit when plod with his camera got me
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[Ol]

[quote="kitty kat"] Bet quite a few of us on here have 3 points on our licence.[/quote]

up until 6 months ago i had 9 points on my licence, and i'd been on 9 points for about 4 months... was terrifying having to drive / ride around everywhere being so careful not to creep over the speed limit..

But back down to 3 points now, such a relief !!
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[Ol]

I'm Working on it !! - Nearly got 3 yesterday on the way home from Squires Cafe, Police were parked up down a little country road as i left Sherburn-in-Elmet, luckily i'd just been fiddling putting the bike into reserve and had slowed down to 50 !
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[Mystery]

ouch unlucky, i nearly got done for speeding as well on friday night doing about 50 in a 40 then police moaned after catching up that they had to do like 60
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[johnsmith222]

I got flashed by a camera once and I was going the way that they'd get my plate.

I was dreading the mail for 14 days. Gladly nothing came through.

I have 0 points, however if I get 6 points then I get my licence taken off me.

6 months to wait until the full 12 point allowance and full, unrestricted licence.

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[Poseidon]

I've been nicked three times in total. First time was on the M25 (those crappy 50mph limits they put up on the overhead signs). Second time I was pulled by some plod, I was doing like 70 in a 30 zone (used to be a national speed limit... no houses/kittens to be seen and it was 5:00am), they were coming towards me in a van and pulled onto my side of the road. I locked my wheels trying to stop in time. The copper gave me a bollocking about doing "Warp speed 9" . Third time I thought I was in a 40zone (which it used to be), got clocked doing 36mph in a 30zone (speedo obviously over reads by 10%).

First time it was my Dads wife's car (he was asleep in the passenger seat). She blamed him, he blamed some guy at work, he blamed his missus, who then blamed the milkman... and so on. I think after a year they got bored. Second time they hadn't actually clocked my speed so after the usual "yes sir, no sir, can I suck your cock sir", I was let on my way. Third time I said it wasn't me driving (they only had a photo of the rear of the car), it was actually a company van, so I just told the courts that I had been blamed unfairly and that I had hit upon a brick wall trying to find out who was driving it. Magistrates just looked at me and said "It's your lucky day, you're free to go".

EDIT:
My wife just reminded me of the time I was racing a honda civic... I did 90 past on of those little cameras on a tripod in a 60mph limit. Didn't see it until I was adjacent to it, I was swearing for 14 days solid, after which no NIP came and I was in the clear!

How have I managed to never get a point on my licence???
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