Advice needed re possible speeding ticket

[dickie davies]

Still pretty active, and 78 early next year. Passed my driving test at the first attempt while I was still a teenager, where have all those years gone.

As you took your test so long ago, it'd do your driving the world of good to attend the speed awareness course
I passed 40 years ago and for the last 30 odd have driven a minimum of 30,000 miles a year, so I'm thinking I know it all
I took some very good information from the course

 

[Djibrilshairdo]

I’m 80 been driving for 65 years and never been in a single accident. Seen a fair few in the rear view mirror mind.

 

[tweety]

Did one about 10 years ago, doing 36 in a 30 at 2 in the morning. The 'course' lasted 4 1/2 fucking hours, full of middle aged folk going marginally over the limit, kept my mouth shut and got signed off. It's literally all about the money, no discretion like there used to be.

 

[BimboBob]

Still pretty active, and 78 early next year. Passed my driving test at the first attempt while I was still a teenager, where have all those years gone.

I think you need a refresher test, a lots changed since those days. Gear stick on the inside, headlights that work at the flick of a switch and no one walking in front of you waving a red flag...

 

[Gray]

I think you need a refresher test, a lots changed since those days. Gear stick on the inside, headlights that work at the flick of a switch and no one walking in front of you waving a red flag...

Not true my wife does that job admirally.

 

[southamptonblue]

Not true my wife does that job admirally.

Wife walking in front wouldn't have helped me....I'd have floored it ;)

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Do these new digital cameras still have the same 10% leeway?

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I got caught speeding the other week. In the States its a 4 hour video course and you can pause it and restart another time.
I did it over a week in 4 hourly sessions and then I was doing other things while listening to it and going back to the lap top when it asked the odd question it threw in to make sure you are still there

 

[rogerterry]

Do these new digital cameras still have the same 10% leeway?

I've recently been on a speed awareness course and informed this leeway (10% + 2) does not exist, its like an urban myth. If you go 1mph over you are speeding, there are other factors as to why you may not get a NIP in the post such as fixed cameras not working, paperwork going missing, no proof of calibration of speed devices.

It's all a revenue exercise and the easiest way to fuck them off is don't speed and drive like a little old lady.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I've recently been on a speed awareness course and informed this leeway (10% + 2) does not exist, its like an urban myth. If you go 1mph over you are speeding, there are other factors as to why you may not get a NIP in the post such as fixed cameras not working, paperwork going missing, no proof of calibration of speed devices.

It's all a revenue exercise and the easiest way to fuck them off is don't speed and drive like a little old lady.

Fair enough. There must be some leeway as you see cars go past you when doing 70 in smart motorway zones and they don’t get flashed.

I got done once in 2003 when a mobile camera got me doing 56mph in a 50mph motorway roadworks zone. Had to take the points.

Got done in 2016 at the lights near city, again just over the 10% and did a speed awareness course.

Anybody who says they haven’t sped isn’t being truthful. Cruise control is great for smart motorways.

Speed doesn’t kill, lack of distance between you and the car in front does.

Tailgaiting at 70mph on a motorway is far more dangerous than doing say 90mph with sufficient distance for you to react in time.