Been done for speeding -__-

[saxplee]

Right, just wanting your views on been done for speeding?

Last night I was done for exceeding the speed limit on a 3 lane, dual carrage way, which is a 40mph, so the traffic car pulled me over had and the officer had a chat with me about the dangers of speeding, gave me a ticket in the end up, now I'm waiting for a letter from the police of my choices, either to take the points and £100 fine or to go to court about it, now the officer didn't show me any proof that I was speeding or video evidence of me speeding, he tried to calculate my speed for the time to catch me up, then he said to me "I'd just take the points and the fine, cause if you go to court they could disqualify you and have a heavy fine to fork out" now my question is wouldn't they need some sort of video/evidence to convict me for the offense?

Also to add that my driving history is not perfect!

Thanks for the taking the time to read and any input will be appreciated

[Randyransford91]

Previous or not I would imagine they need evidence to prosecute. For all you know he could have floored it from miles away and seen you doing 10mph over the limit and thought I'll have him. Easy pickings.

But if it was 40mph what speed were you doing?

[danny-vts]

To convict you of any speeding offences, they will need proof, if they haven't got any it will get thrown out of court anyway. It's down to you what you want to do, take the fine and points or take a risk and let it go to court.
Similar to this happened to me years ago and i decided i was going to take it to court, several months later (in court more or less every other week) and alot of travelling it got thrown out due to the fuzz saying they have "lost" the evidence....more like they didn't have any in the 1st place and that they wanted me to take the points/fine etc.

[Giraffe]

Were you speeding and if so, how much?

[aldred309uk]

Sounds like you were probably doing a bit over 46 in a 40...

[Alfie09]

How many officers in the car?

[dolby20]

You wrote it at 12:15 am
I'm imagining you probably weren't doing 40 in a 40 at that time
So what speed were you doing?
Maybe a camera in the police car - not hard to calculate speed from time you pass a static object, to the time they pass it
Or the time taken for you to pass 2 static objects and the distance between them
Might as well take the kick in the teeth, lick your wounds and learn from your mistakes

[D4MJT]

good effort though, you exceeded 40mph in a VTR!

[Manu]

your views on been done for speeding?


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[Lucas_LFC]

If you were speeding and got caught I'd take it on the chin and learn from your mistakes...don't get caught again lol

[Jizanthapus]

on a 3 lane, dual carrage way

How does that work :wacko:

[Giraffe]

How does that work :wacko:

Magic. Have you not seen Harry Potter?

[aldred309uk]

How does that work :wacko:

Probably in the town centre, inner ring road maybe, they're wide but slow with lights and junctions etc

[Jizanthapus]

Magic. Have you not seen Harry Potter?

I've seen one of them.....

http://i.imgur.com/jtheZ.gif

[Exousia]

If it's your first offence you may opt for a speed
Awareness course , sit and listen to an ex copper for a couple
Of hours , £90 and no points .

[Giraffe]

If it's your first offence you may opt for a speed
Awareness course , sit and listen to an ex copper for a couple
Of hours , £90 and no points .

Judging by the second from last sentence, it would appear it isn't. Also, that depends how fast he was going and whether he is even offered it in the first place, which it sounds like he wasn't going to be offered it anyway.

[saxplee]

How does that work :wacko:

A dual carriage way is two roads separated by Pavement, Barriers or Fence.

Look at it as if you can roll a ball from one side to another without it stopping then it's a single carriage way, even tho it may have 2+lanes

You leant something new every day :)

Yup just taking it on the chin now accept my mistake , sp30 is not that bad won't effect the insurance to bad tbh. Heyyyy hooo!

[chompy]

I'd run it right through the courts and request a copy of the evidence if I was you.

[saxplee]

Judging by the second from last sentence, it would appear it isn't. Also, that depends how fast he was going and whether he is even offered it in the first place, which it sounds like he wasn't going to be offered it anyway.

Already done a speed awareness course last December, so that's out the window!

[Jizanthapus]

I thought it was just 2 lanes on each side and anything more was a motorway lol but yes, I'm wrong!

[dolby20]

Just be thankful he didn't check your insurance history....

[SNewham]

If they don't have evidence they can't prosecute you...

[Ross]

you haven't actually said what speed you were doing. If it was (for example) 50mph in a 40mph area, I'd be inclined to see what evidence they have (run it through court). If you actually know you were doing more like a ton, slowed down because you saw them, and they said they clocked you at 65 mph in the 40mph zone, then I'd take it on the chin.

Did they give you a FPN ticket on the spot, or report you for the offence (generally worse).

[smiith]

Just be thankful he didn't check your insurance history....

Why his insurance history? When they run your name through the system it comes up if you have existing unspent points.. Nothing to do with the insurance system..

[smiith]

Did they give you a FPN ticket on the spot, or report you for the offence (generally worse).

They can't actually give you on the spot points anymore for speeding, if that's what you mean by FPN (fucking penis nonsense?)

Now if you are caught speeding, they send a ticket off to the DVLA, give you a ticket to say what you were stopped for, then the DVLA decide what punishment to give out to you..

[dolby20]

Why his insurance history? When they run your name through the system it comes up if you have existing unspent points.. Nothing to do with the insurance system..

Insurance through an agent - I'll let the OP explain

[Ross]

They can't actually give you on the spot points anymore for speeding, if that's what you mean by FPN (fucking penis nonsense?)

Now if you are caught speeding, they send a ticket off to the DVLA, give you a ticket to say what you were stopped for, then the DVLA decide what punishment to give out to you..

Oh really? I've not been done for speeding for about two years - didn't realise that had changed. My bad :)

[smiith]

Oh really? I've not been done for speeding for about two years - didn't realise that had changed. My bad :)

Yeah, i got done last summer, and said "so do i get 3 points now then?" and she said "we don't do that anymore with speeding, now we write a report and send your speed, and what speed zone you were in to the DVLA, and they decide if you should do a driver awareness course, or get points".. I got points, wankers.

[Kebabman]

Already done a speed awareness course last December, so that's out the window!

Do you end up getting lumped with the 3 points that were deferred by taking that course as well, and therefore get 6 points instead of the standard 3?

[Giraffe]

Do you end up getting lumped with the 3 points that were deferred by taking that course as well, and therefore get 6 points instead of the standard 3?

Never heard of points being "deferred" by taking the course? When I took it it was instead of points + fine.

My mother also got caught twice in the same day, by the same camera. Got the course for one and took points and fine for the other...

[Kebabman]

Never heard of points being "deferred" by taking the course? When I took it it was instead of points + fine.

My mother also got caught twice in the same day, by the same camera. Got the course for one and took points and fine for the other...

I'd heard somewhere that the points were effectively deferred when you take a test and if you get caught again within the 3 years after you get lumped with both. Wasn't sure if it was true so thought I'd ask him if it was. Will have a google anyway.

[MuZiZZle]

My mother also got caught twice in the same day, by the same camera. Got the course for one and took points and fine for the other...

I remember that, he was rushing to see me because I seduced her, then once she saw my gargantuan wang she ran away :y: