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24th April 2014, 00:15
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Been done for speeding -__-
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
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24th April 2014, 00:30
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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?
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24th April 2014, 00:31
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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.
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24th April 2014, 06:24
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Were you speeding and if so, how much?
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24th April 2014, 06:41
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Sounds like you were probably doing a bit over 46 in a 40...
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24th April 2014, 06:54
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How many officers in the car?
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24th April 2014, 07:03
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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
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24th April 2014, 07:09
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good effort though, you exceeded 40mph in a VTR!
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24th April 2014, 07:42
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Quote:
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your views on been done for speeding?
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24th April 2014, 08:28
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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
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24th April 2014, 08:35
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Quote:
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on a 3 lane, dual carrage way
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How does that work 
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24th April 2014, 09:01
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Quote:
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How does that work |
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24th April 2014, 09:11
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How does that work |
Probably in the town centre, inner ring road maybe, they're wide but slow with lights and junctions etc
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24th April 2014, 09:12
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I've seen one of them.....
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24th April 2014, 10:17
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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 .
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24th April 2014, 10:18
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Originally Posted by 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 .
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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.
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TTs aren't that bad...
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24th April 2014, 10:20
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Quote:
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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!
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24th April 2014, 10:21
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I'd run it right through the courts and request a copy of the evidence if I was you.
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24th April 2014, 10:22
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Quote:
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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.
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Already done a speed awareness course last December, so that's out the window!
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24th April 2014, 11:07
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I thought it was just 2 lanes on each side and anything more was a motorway lol but yes, I'm wrong!
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