Sixty quid fine, three points...Bastard !!! Heads Up...

Handsome · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Karma :

Between Stone Cross and Walsall on Walsall Rd if anyone knows it as a heads up...

Just under the motorway bridge there's about twenty police, I think they're training up some new ones as the bloke that spoke to me was about twelve...

They're getting people as the come round the corner from the lights going into Walsall, a copper flagged down a car just in front of me I thought great I'm ok then he flagged me in aswell, " Bastard " was the first thing to go through my head, as I was dissmounting the bike he came over and showed me the reading, 52 in a 40, got given as above, sixty quid fine and three points ( have to watch that now as I only passed in December last year ) and a producer...

They also pulled in a K3/4 Gixxer aswell, blue and white, don't know how he got on though and a few cars...

Lesson learned ( still stings like a bastard though )...

So yeah, heads up...
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cLaTTeReD · Nitrous Nuisance Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Karma :

i know the area - what a bunch of wankers

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Handsome · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Karma :

It's a sweeping left hander, couldn't see them untill I'd gone round it tbh, still my fault at the end of the day...
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Mark65 · World Chat Champion Joined: 16 May 2008 Karma :

On a side note you are an easy target, what has always pissed me off is drink drivers i mean pubs have got car parks so you can have a drink but how often do you see police pulling everyone outside a pub and breathalysing them, nope cause a copper told me its not something they do, its far easier to screw the motorist in car or on bike. Typical coppers hiding waiting for the easy target to boost there crime figures. small rant over Wink

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Paulington · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Mar 2009 Karma :

Funny you should say that, I got pulled last night (~10pm ish) going along the road near my house doing 35mph in a 30 zone.

Immediate thought was also: BASTARDS! Wink

I thought here we go, heading for three points if they don't notice that my bike is a 50cc and that I'm breaking the law that way.

Turns out they just thought my bike was stolen! They sat me in the back, checked I was the owner, told me to slow down a bit and sent me on my merry way, even though I told them it was a 50cc, plenty of "Nice bike." from the Coppers though. Counting myself lucky.

They're not all bad. Thumbs Up

They do what they did to you around my way too, a road they sit at the end where transits park regularly and get you as you approach. Sad

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Handsome · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Karma :

I reckon I'd have just got a kick up the arse if they hadn't been training new Po Po up tbh...As the 12 year old gave me the slip of paper another copper checked it first so I'm assuming they're being trained anyway...
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zx6rnigel · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 15 May 2009 Karma :

There was a huge gathering of police along the A507 - Bedfordshire, this morning luckily i was in my car ..

Dont know if its a country wide thing?

Mark65 · World Chat Champion Joined: 16 May 2008 Karma :

Good result, but theres no consistancy with them if he had a row with his missus that morning you may have had a different result.
Ive had them call me sir and speak to me like i was there best m8 and others have spoke to me like i was a piece of shit.
I will never trust a copper. Rolling Eyes

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Handsome · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Karma :

Whilst the 12 year old walked off with my license the other copper was chatting about his bike and how I was finding the Thou...
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Feasty · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Karma :

I think this is why I could never ever be a copper. I thought about it once but then realised I could never be so hypocrytical as to be speeding on my bike one day, then handing out tickets to speeding bikers the next.
And when I say speeding I mean a possible 5-10mph over the limit when it's safe to do so... Rolling Eyes

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yuri2085 · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 Jul 2008 Karma :

Its not illegal but its strongly advised against in the guidlines, so if you see a officer obviously hiding out of view then you can report them; get them a bollocking (or their boss a bollocking) and it might change their tactics.

stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

There is a school of thought that says if you couldn't slow down in time when you see a policeman in a hi-viz vest with a speed camera in the road ahead, your obs were not good enough to be doing that sort of speed under those conditions.

On the basis that if it was some other hazard, you would have had an accident.

If I understand your decription, looks like a fairly straight piece of road to me so to fail to see twenty coppers in time to slow down, you were going too bloody fast.
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stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Fair do's.

As you say, You only get a limited impression from the overhead view.

I've only been stopped twice by coppers with radar guns. The first time I was quick on the brakes, saw him well ahead of time and had slowed down enough by the time I was pulled to be confident enough to give him a load of cheek.

The second time I was stopped fair and square doing double the speed limit. They let me off, pretty much because I managed to stop before I got to them. He said as much in that he was expecting to have to walk down the road to dispense a bollocking along the lines of "What if I'd been a pedestrian?". First words out of his mouth were "Well done for stopping in that distance.".
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Handsome · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Karma :

stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

They don't send them in to the DVLA. It normally goes to the clerk of the local court who scribbles the points on the paper counterpart licence with blue biro then sends it back to you.

Just check they put the correct offence code in, they sometimes get it wrong and it can make a difference when it comes to insurance. You ought to have an SP30 (Exceeding statuatory speed limit). They sometimes put in an SP60 (Miscellaneous speed limit offence) which is wrong and carries a higher weighting on the insurance.

Tell your insurance as soon as you get the points.
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Handsome · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Karma :

The offence code says it's a ' 920 ' ?...

Although I think that's to do with the camera itself looking on Google...The slip says ' Excessive speed in a fourty '...

Also I've ust checked on my policy and it says that because I'm part way through a policy I only have to tell them when it's due for renewal...Sound Right ?...
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