If you dont wanna get caught by speed cameras.. then just don't speed!
I don't have a problem with putting a speed camera outside every school, at every GENUINE accident blackspot or even on every High Street in the land. What I do object to are those that are purely there as a revenue earner, sited on bridges across motorways and 'A' roads where the criteria for siting of speed cameras are not met (and believe me through research I have found this is common).
The speed limit of 70 mph was first introduced when the M1 was opened and the car they used to work out this limit was a Ford Anglia! The car was in its hey day at the time and they thrashed it to its absolute limits and came up with 70 mph.
Cars nowadays are far better equipped than they have ever been and are designed with safety as a paramount feature. But a decision taken way back in the sixties affects us all to this day.
Hands up. How many of you have driven along at 80+mph on a motorway/A road with hardly any other cars on the road? Does this make you a dangerous driver? Should you receive a hefty fine and points on your licence for doing it?
Owner 585
Hanging on to my youth by the skin of my teeth
And how is a camera at a safety spot, when they put it up before they even opened a brand new road ..ah yes...dual carriageway nice and straight ..that's how :rolleyes:
Ali G
Used to own a Moonstone with personal plate, bits and pieces..and littlen's car seat :-)
I got rumbled at a speed trap in Bexley just as a motorway standard 3 lane dual carriageway drops from 70 to 50. I was doing 85 when I got flashed at 2.20am on a Sunday - pure fluke I got out of it. My car had the wrong numberplate on it. One letter was wrong on the regional tag - later rectified to correct prefix after the NIP came through. I just said it wasn't my car - got away with it and this was almost 2 years ago
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My son finally had his day in court yesterday and thought you might be interested in the outcome. After much deliberation he decided that to fight to the bitter end would have implications on his career. So he went ahead and pleaded guilty and was prepared for whatever they threw at him. The result was a £120 fine and a 7 day ban. A bit harsh considering it is his first ever 'offence'. The phrase 'make an example of him' springs to mind.
Here we have a young man who has worked hard all his life, never been in trouble ever with any form of authority, and is working hard to fulfill his career dreams. What grieves me the most about all of this is that he now has a 'criminal record' simply for driving over the speed limit. There are scumbags out there who get away with theft, muggings, assault. All they get is a slap on the wrists and a nice holiday somewhere warm 'to rehabilitate' them. Wheres the justice in that???
Let me tell you that being in a magistartes court is the most unpleasent thing that I and my son have ever encountered. He was made to feel and look like a bad person. I shall never forgive 'them' for putting him through that.
Owner 585
Hanging on to my youth by the skin of my teeth
I can quite understand having to turn up at a magistrates court makes a person feel like a criminal even if its purely a low catagory speeding fine. Thats a horrible experience for any young man to go through. I hope your son doesn't continue to feel he is a criminal for what is purely a speeding offence though.
I have just been done twice by the same mobile unit on the A34 chievely underpass section a week apart - first one was done doing 70 in the apparently restricted section (where were the fecking signs - got 3 points and £60 fine after pleading my case and the same for the second one for doing 48 in a 40 - my bad on that one although I hadn't realised I got done for the first one when I did that one - money grabbers the fecking lot of them :x
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