Got home to find a NIP for 65 in a 50 on my doormat. Unforgivable I know, but that's not the issue.
The issue is, it was midday last week and i was safely at work, and it was my wife driving my car. More specifically, driving my car so she could pick my sister and family up from the airport, during her school holiday (she works at a school), on a trip that she moaned like buggery about having to make at all.
Even better, at 65 in a 50 I think she's beyond the limits for a speed awareness course so it'll be £100 and points (can anyone confirm?)
Clearly it's going to be my fault, for asking her to do the trip but also probably I'll be responsible for inadequate signage and for somehow having a hand in putting a speed camera van there in the first place. And sundry other items (wrong footwear?)
Best course of action? Hide for the next 5 years? She'll be home in 20 minutes.
Don't tell her. Just put it in the bin .
Don't tell her it's hers. Let her have the high ground and lecture you etc first, before 'noticing' and telling her it's hers. She won't have much to say after that, and you can just show a bit of sympathy.
Well short of admitting that you are a transvestite and taking the hit yourself ..I have nothing to suggest ..
Good luck !😁
Not your fault, you weren’t driving.
Suggest that she WTFU and faces the consequences of her criminal behaviour.
Good luck with that. 😉
Tell her you’ve got a ticket for when you went to pick up the family on that day, see if she twigs.
any time ive advised my wife that her driving could be improved in a small area, she has taken it on board, but i notice that all the small bad habits return if I haven’t been in her car for a while.
let us know how you get on, sounds like it will be a ‘fun’ evening 😂😂
‘Oh, look, a letter about speeding? But that can’t be right, why would I have one of those dear?’
Put it on the table (open). Go out for a ride. A long one.
Scrape mine. I prefer Linchpin’s. Brilliant work.
Lay it on thick with remorse when she comes in, " I was really stupid a few weeks ago and it appears i've been done for speeding, 65mph in a 50 zone....gawd what a stupid dick........yeah....yeah i now...no need to lecture me i know it's my fault for speeding" etc....etc then hand her the letter to read.
Let her read the letter and see if she points out it was her that was actually driving.
Could be fun?
Linchpin for the win.
Dont forget to give us an update later.
Did they include a photograph so you can clearly work out who was driving your car?
If you’re going to pretend it was you, you should get down on your knees and beg her to take the points for you.
That’d be a laugh
She's normally home by now. I don't suppose an opening gambit of 'I expected you ten minutes ago, what with the speed you normally drive' would be sensible.
Ha ha brilliant!
Onzadog ...which is why I suggested the transvestite suggestion earlier in the thread ..( Lord I'm wasted on here 😎😁)...
As you were at work you don’t know who was driving the car.
Say you'll take the rap, seemed to work well for Chris Huhne and Vicky Price. Look it up!
What bikes do you have? Dibbs on anything useful.
It does seem like an 'open letter on table and wait to see' is most simple and least games like option...
Do women generally turn into dicks once married?
I believe turned off dicks is the usual perception cynic al
So, when does the OP crawl to the laptop, bruised and crying for mercy, to update us on the response?
#prayforjonv
Sod it, I’d take the points, they’d hurt less ha ha.
PS it’s 3 points and a fine equal to half your weekly wage, be thankful it’s not 66mph or it would be 4-6 points, a weeks wages and maybe even a ban of 7-28 days.
Who gets paid more?
Is this late getting home from work a common occurrence?
Like running a bit late and speeding to try and catch up to meet family at an appointed hour?
Its one of my thoughts and contributions to this situation.
Good luck OP 😃
65mph on a doormat is impressive.
Fill in the form stating your wife was driving and send it back. Don't tell your wife and see how she reacts when she gets her own speeding letter in a week or so. (Kicking the can down the road)
Sod it, I’d take the points, they’d hurt less ha ha.
PS it’s 3 points and a fine equal to half your weekly wage, be thankful it’s not 66mph or it would be 4-6 points, a weeks wages and maybe even a ban of 7-28 days.
Who gets paid more?
Only if you go to court, Fixed penalty is still 3 points and £100 fine.
Clearly the OP is now in hiding....
it went reasonably well. Main defence appears to be that she'd been stuck behind a van going "too slow" for a while, so where it opened up to dual carriageway she didn't realise it was still 50 and sped past, but didn't see the camera van until she was already overtaking.
Too slow - presumably about 50-ish, obviously.
But reading between the lines, i think it wasn't entirely unexpected.
Just tell her if she rants and has a go at you tell her stop.
Not exactly difficult.
Then tell her look on Here for the fine.
New patio.
You should’ve just told the Police that you were at work and nobody else had permission to take the car. That would smooth things out nicely
Affair/she rolled it and used your credit card to buy a replacement
Then tell her look on Here for the fine.
That's a bit scary and sobering* The OP's wife missed a band B offence by 1mile per hour.
*when I say scary and sobering I'm clearly not talking about me; I'm talking about for other people clearly. I'd never speed, obvs.
Speed awareness course costs you pretty much the same as the fine even if it were offered so you only really save on points (but lose half a day of your life in a room where apparently you were the only one that knew they were above the speed limit and probably would do so again if you judged the conditions right, I was 85 in a 70 for reference...). Yeah I'm a horrible person, worse than a drunk driver yadda yadda.
How far over the limit do you have to be before a speed awareness course is not an option ..
I've attended one ..32 in a 30 ..opened my eyes a bit ( the actual course!) ..but do I still speed on occasion ..doesnt everyone ?
Most people speed, most of the time.
whether they admit it, or are even aware of it on the other hand . .
If she starts moaning, shout "grow up, and take some responsibility for your actions, your not a child" etc.
I then recommend running away and hiding. Ideally in a different house, in a different country.
From googling - I think there is still a Fixed Penalty process for 'minor' speeding so she could get a standard 3 points and £100 fine; the sliding scale is for more serious offences where you are prosecuted and sent to court (or I assume dispute the FPN)
She might, at the discretion of the Police get an offer of a speed awareness course still but some places suggest 64 (in a 50) is the threshold for that, on the other hand it's her first offence in 30-odd years so if there is discretion she might at least avoid the points.
She has bought some theatre tickets for her and our two kids for the summer which now 'she can't afford' because of the fine or awareness course that's coming. So in a roundabout way, I'm getting fined for her speeding in the end anyway........
But then there's a phrase about discretion and valour.
Say you’ll take the rap, seemed to work well for Chris Huhne and Vicky Price. Look it up!
Although she she did pretty well out of the whole situation. Certainly boosted her profile 🙄
Most people speed, most of the time.
I think you'd be surprised how many don't. After an incident very similar to the OP I decide the worry of being caught was too much last year and now stick to all speed limits most of the time. Doing that I've realised how many cars are still slower than me, particularly on dual carriageways and motorways.
I think you’d be surprised how many don’t.
I agree. At the age of 29 I was pulled over on a very remote road in rural Tasmania. I was going about 140 kmh in a 100 zone. Instead of a fine, I clearly passed the attitude test somehow and got away with a caution.
Up until that point I’d sped on open roads and freeways as a matter of course. Even 6 years later I’m still a lot more circumspect, both because Australia seems to have police in very peculiar places, and because a few things the officer said to me about being lucky for only so long with regards to an accident struck home.
>I think you’d be surprised how many don’t.
I'd be amazed if it's over 0.5%.
Cambridge is 20mph everywhere except the ring roads.
Pretty much no one does 20mph.
I feel fairly confident in saying that most of us don’t live in Cambridge
I think quite a few of us are selectively bad. I wouldn't dream of speeding in a town, electively slow down through villages even when bizzar speed limits mean I don't need to and trundle through my own village at 20 even though I could go 30. There are places I am electivly naughty though- mostly mildly twisty B roads that I know well and know there are no hidden suprises or open enough that you can see far enough uphead. I have been on my bike going around a blind country bend when a car has come from behind and seen me at the last minute and had to use the other lane to avoid me too many times to want to be that driver.
I know, I'm going to hell. But hopefully they will give me a padded seat or something for not being totally through and through bad.
