Fecking Speed Traps

One day back in the 70s I was doing about 55 in a 40 limit and a police

Agreed. I remember getting pulled over in the late seventies after a blast
down the Edgeware way. It was a beautiful sunny day and I admitted to the
policeman that I'd got a bit carried away coming off the last roundabout.
Fully expected a ticket but the guy let me off telling me to be more careful
in future.

 

probably was... bummer. like I said, if it goes before the beak, apologise
and politely make the point about lack of risk.

if it's a fixed thing, yer may as well pay up and look big, you're unlikely
to get off with it.

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Depends on your local CPS.
If you get computer generated, £60 and three points.

If you are forced to go to court, £1000 and nine points is a possibility.
From other posts it is possible/probable you were caught by a portable unit
you can plead guilty to the magistrate and comment upon the car which was
following you rather closely.
Which while it does not excuse you does give you a sufficient distraction
on the road that you were not paying sufficient attention to your
speedometer.

Point out lack of connvictions over the years, apologise profusely,
momentary lapse of
speed awareness etc etc etc.

You will probably get told off by the magistrate and cop for the lower end
of the spectrum.

Has worked for others I know,

HTH

Dave

 

It does happen. I've had ticking offs for 112mph (admittedly the ticking
off included a fixed penalty in 1996) and since then 60 in a 40 also 70+
on single carriage NSL, the 60 a ticking off, the 70 a slow down hand
movement.

I also have had an FP for 38 in a 30.

Most of the time the trafpol have a sense of proportion. I don't think
its really any worse than 10-20 years ago. However the fixed units don't
distinguish.....

 

Bzzzztt , still does.

Unless you mean a Norton Commando being ridden by plod of course

 

So, you ignored his sage advice then ?

 

I think it was a fully justified rattle. As it wasn't the usual how do I
escape the 'unfair' nicking, more 'my bad how much', which attracted a
fair amount of sanctimonious rubbish. I'd reserve that for those trying
to wriggle out and blame their law breaking on every one but themselves.

I'm due a nicking, so _when_ it comes and I try to whinge and wriggle I
expect the full force of everyones self righteous....

 

Thus spake sweller unto the assembled multitudes:

And yet I read in my local rag of a guy on a Kwacker getting a hefty fine
and a ban for doing around 115 on the Lewes bypass (which is a dual). I
guess he was unlucky because people do those speeds on that bit of road all
the time, whether in cages or on bikes. Not me, of course, officer ;-)

 

Funnily enough I was on the A27, at 112 mph, at the time, just before the
Hangleton Interchange Tunnel.

 

sweller

Is that between Lewes and Brighton going west? I went down there recently
but didn't see any cameras, luckily there must have been none as I had
138 indicated.

 

Between Brighton and Shoreham. AFAIK there are no cameras on the dual
carriageway between Lewes and Arundel.

 

Thus spake sweller unto the assembled multitudes:

There are speed-camera markings and warning signs close to the Falmer
flyover here outside Sussex University, but they're hangovers from when a
new subway was being built last year, and speed restrictions - with real
cameras - were in place for several months. The cameras have gone but
they've left the markings/signs in place, perhaps to put the frighteners on
non-regulars. The rest of us just roar through as usual. It'll be a nice
little earner if they put the cameras back without telling anyone....

 

sweller

That's good to know. Though I didn't really expect anything, it's a few
weeks ago and the owner of the bike hasn't mentioned any NIP arriving,
but then she's a magistrate there and may have 'dealt' with it.

 

Never been done on a bike but twice in a reliant regal and once in a car
thats in nearly 40 years
Cyril

 

You could always get a LADA - got pulled for speeding (90 mph ) just outside
Lewes, coppers were laughing so much, they couldn't see to write a ticket, &
let me off with a caution. (I know, but it was downhill. . .)

 

Isn't the limit on that bit of road 40? Or have they recently lowered
it? If so then I will need to watch it when I next visit mother-in-law.