Speeding penalty points

Times journo in speeding shock:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/news/article1870320.ece

What anyone does is their own business (obviously except on STW…) but this is a fairly likely scenario in the event of owning up.

They make a habit of getting out of it around here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1538370.stm

Oh come on, that story is over 10 years old! If that is the most recent you can find they are hardly making a habit of it.

Oh come on, that story is over 10 years old! If that is the most recent you can find they are hardly making a habit of it.

I wasn’t really searching, it was linked to the other one

I actually remember it too

pistonbroke – Member
Re the possibility of not losing your licence due to pleading exceptional hardship. I know from personal experience that exceptional hardship defence will not work unless you can prove the hardship relates to other innocent parties, i.e if your wife’s ability to drive is essential to providing care or financial support to others. Simply losing her job if she doesn’t have a licence is not sufficient as the hardship will only be to herself.

……it does work and it’s at the discretion of the magistrate. My best mate requested a hearing, represented himself after taking advice , has no family or dependants and escaped a ban.That was 4 months ago.

The police will also have alarm bells ringing when they get another “it wasnt me driving” letter from someone who is on 9 points.

Serious criminal offence and cant see that anyone in their right mind would run the risk of a custodial sentance.

The police will also have alarm bells ringing when they get another “it wasnt me driving” letter from someone who is on 9 points.

Given the enormous amount of penalties issues do you really think the police actually see the returned forms let alone read them?

Given the enormous amount of penalties issues do you really think the police actually see the returned forms let alone read them?

they have a computer that will highlight such things.

they have a computer that will highlight such things.

well if the figure of 750,000 people that have swapped points is correct, it could probably do with a reboot

well if the figure of 750,000 people that have swapped points is correct, it could probably do with a reboot

ether way if he does it i hope he gets busted.

I hope he gets away with it and is laughing all the way to the bedroom

I hope he gets away with it and is laughing all the way to the bedroom

yes so yet another dangerous driver can endanger peoples lives so they can get to work 5 min faster

I hope he gets away with it and is laughing all the way to the bedroom

😀

Once it’s all done and dusted I’d get a laptop and projector set-up in the bedroom and get all the hand-wringing from this thread plastered all over the walls while I was “collecting my fee”. Between moans of pleasure I’d chuckle at all the pent up frustration.

Afterwards I’d sit there with the missus and use the laptop to decide which BMW or Audi to spend her sales bonus on.

where’s this massive figure of 750,000 come from, that you keep referring to ?

Sounds like an awful lot to me.

Probably worse crimes out there for our officers to deal with.

yes so yet another dangerous driver can endanger peoples lives so they can get to work 5 min faster

Is driving more quickly than the speed limit legally allows dangerous?

Is driving more quickly than the speed limit legally allows dangerous?

when they hit you’re child at 35 rather than 20 its very dangerous

MAstiles looking at the standard of lots of drivers on the road then yes! People are often (not always) speeidng becuase they are in a hurry to get home/get to work/aren’t paying attention, in which case it certainly becomes dangerous!

So is someone driving at 80mph on an empty motorway at 3am more dangerous than someone driving at 30mph past a busy school at 8.30am?

If it was my wife and I thought we’d get away with it then yes I’d take the points because, well, she’s my wife.

I’d be asking for the photos, if there is a full frontal picture (ooh-er) that has her bang to rights then obviously not worth the risk. If she’d been done from behind by a gatso (double ooh-er) then I’d take one for the team.

The moral outrage of whiny stw’ers would not be a factor in the decision making process.

100 (mph)

Afterwards I’d sit there with the missus and use the laptop to decide which BMW or Audi to spend her sales bonus on.

Ahh, and then put a £5k 6″ full susser on the back and waddle round the blue at glentress alone, I saw quite a lot of these people this weekend whilst waiting in the car park!

I really don’t understand anyone making excuses for speeding – there’s a big dial-type thingy in the centre of your dashboard telling you how fast you’re going, and even larger round signs at the side of the road telling you how fast you’re allowed to go – simples 😀

I’m with Lady Gresley – I get all pious about speeding too – if you can’t see the dial or are not taking it seriously enough to pay proper attention, catch the bus.

Do the crime, do the time.

I really don’t understand anyone making excuses for speeding – there’s a big dial-type thingy in the centre of your dashboard telling you how fast you’re going,

Exactly, yet when I nudged a cyclist because i was staring at the big dial thingy, everyone got all shirty with me!

CharlieMungus – Member

I really don’t understand anyone making excuses for speeding – there’s a big dial-type thingy in the centre of your dashboard telling you how fast you’re going,

Exactly, yet when I nudged a cyclist because i was staring at the big dial thingy, everyone got all shirty with me!
If you’re incapable of reading it at a glance, then maybe you shouldn’t be driving?

But what about if your speed changes after you glanced?

You mean you can’t tell if you’re going faster? Oh dear, oh dear, someone take his licence away please.

Lady Gresley – Member

I really don’t understand anyone making excuses for speeding – there’s a big dial-type thingy in the centre of your dashboard telling you how fast you’re going, and even larger round signs at the side of the road telling you how fast you’re allowed to go

Bloody morally outraged hand-wringing liberal leftie cultural marxist PC brigade!

I can, but I don’t know how much faster. I can tell when i am accelerating, but once my speed levels out,it is very difficult to know what speed i am going at with any kind of accuracy.

and surely you know i’m a she, not a he.

How about a blind test?

We’ll blind fold you and see if you can accurately estimate your speed from the engine revs, apparently all cyclists that don’t drive can do this to the nearest 0.001 mph, so it won’t be an issue for an experienced driver I’m sure

I’ll film it for you 🙂

That’s how i nudged the cyclist of his bike last time!

Was he blindfold too?

because, I guess you could have then got away before he got your reg number, saves hitting him again to make sure his memory is a bit blurred

Was he blindfold too?

No, because he noticed when he fell off

I hope he wasn’t so badly injured that he couldn’t race home quickly and report what happened on a bicylist’s internet forum?

He did try, but he was in a 20 mph zone, so was somewhat restricted.

Sorry, to have ruined the thread, but at least we have a new synonym for ‘pussy whipped’, ‘bush whacked’

😆

The speed limit is just that – an upper limit. It’s not a target that ‘must’ be achieved. Accepting for the moment that your speed will vary slightly as you drive along, just aim to be below the limit so you’ve less chance of exceeding it accidentally.

The speed limit is just that – an upper limit. It’s not a target that ‘must’ be achieved. Accepting for the moment that your speed will vary slightly as you drive along, just aim to be below the limit so you’ve less chance of exceeding it accidentally.

I did that, then someone started a discussion about cars pootling along and making the point that i should be ‘making progress’.

a popular alternative for the OP’s friends wife would be to take the ban and carry on driving in the manner in which she is accustomed – lots of companies are pretty poor at checking employees actually hold or continue to hold a current license