Got clocked doing 35 in a 30 in car this morning…so how long before I find out if I’m getting nicked?
Hold my hands up, my fault, fair cop, do your ■■■■ worst.
However in mitigation the limit there is soon to be upped to 40, (showing how potentially dangerous it is) so the Old Bill are taking their last drop of blood opportunity to exploit it. 
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On another note, plus the boy racers on the town square 2 mile away are left alone by the waste of skin local Police to carry on dealing their drugs to kids, simultaneouslly to their speed traps. 
How do you know it was exactly 35?, stopped and cautioned, or from the speedometer? in which case hopefully it’s at 1 or 2mph optimistic so you fall within the threshold.
If its a nick hopefully it’s a course, we all know how much you like the DCPC so a speeding course will be simply divine darling 
Thought i might have been nabbed by camera van in the lorry, let it run round to about 57 on a single carriageway downhill section, then spotted the bloody van about half a mile off, but that was around 6 weeks ago now so unless they haven’t told me at work, should be ok.
Just part of life’s rich tapestry.
You should be strung up by your testicles and forced to watch Sunderland next season for your heinous crime.
I believe you should receive it within 14 days or you get away with it. Usually turns up in about three though.
If you’re struggling to pay the fine, just sell some drugs to pay for it.
Nite Owl:
You should be strung up by your testicles and forced to watch Sunderland next season for your heinous crime.
I believe you should receive it within 14 days or you get away with it. Usually turns up in about three though.
If you’re struggling to pay the fine, just sell some drugs to pay for it.
Class.
Juddian…no I wasn’t cautioned, I looked down at the speedo as I came round the corner and seen the copper at the bottom of the hill.
There was a car in front of me also btw, can the (hand held) camera catch 2 at once anybody??
Can’t wait for the lecture off Jakethesnake btw.
Car in front? be bloody unfortunate if he managed to zoom in your reg plate for absolute confirmation of the offence.
Reckon you’ll be ok.
Well until the holier than thou start pontificating
Juddian:
until the holier than thou start pontificating
It would probably be fair to say that there are more stupidly low arbitrarily and randomly applied speed limits and the law taking full advantage of them to raise revenue,than there are stupidly reckless drivers in terms of speed out there.
You sure it was a speed camera, he could have been filming his mate cartwheeling down the road to put on YouTube, like that copper in the news who’s oppo filmed him doing somersaults on a kids trampoline
14 days I believe is the norm,as it was in your car and no need to go through the vehicle owner routine.
Mitigation is no excuse if 30 is the limit, until it officially goes up to 40, then 30 it is.
lolipop:
14 days I believe is the norm,as it was in your car and no need to go through the vehicle owner routine.
Mitigation is no excuse if 30 is the limit, until it officially goes up to 40, then 30 it is.
I realise that my points were not really ‘‘mitigation’’ in legal terms, and I’m well aware I am likely to get done,…as I said,.It’s my own fault, no excuses. 
I Think if it is a police man with a radar gun they need to stop you, But a camera van comes through the post, to the registered keeper in 14 days, usually within a couple of days thought.
There was some kind of motorcycle-portable camera/speedgun thing being used by South Wales Police a few years back. They’d hide the motorcycle in a layby and set up.
You didn’t get stopped at the time, you got a NIP through the post…my (now ex) wife got one in my car.
She ‘won’ a speed awareness course, which was very interesting as everyone had to stand up and say where they got caught!
She made notes and came away with a useful list of SW Police’s most active speed enforcement sites.
Handy, or what?
What was slightly more alarming was that the women drivers mostly said they didn’t know what the speed limit was where they got caught…they tried not to be distracted by what was going on outside the car (stuff like ‘signs’ and ‘traffic’) when they were driving as it was too scary!
I wish I was making this up…but I’m not!
It would be funny if Plod sent Rob a summons for doing 35 in a 30 and said “We haven’t got any photos, but we found this confession on TruckNet…” 
As stated the registered keeper should receive notification within 14says, note that the day of the offence is day 0 not day 1, as it was a handheld device I would have thought you would have been pulled over at the time, if your speedo read 35 the actual speed would have been less probably below the enforcement level, I strongly suspect that you have dodged the bullet this time.
The giuidlines suggest a 10% margin so 30 would be prosecuted 35 and above 70 would be 77 and so on, car speedometers are not calibrated so to avoid a legal minefield manufacturers will make sure your car speedo reads faster than the actual speed.
library.college.police.uk/docs/a … idance.pdf
mike68:
The giuidlines suggest a 10% margin so 30 would be prosecuted 35 and above 70 would be 77 and so on, car speedometers are not calibrated so to avoid a legal minefield manufacturers will make sure your car speedo reads faster than the actual speed.
library.college.police.uk/docs/a … idance.pdf
110% of the legal limit plus 2mph is the guideline most forced use, not all and some are offering speed awareness courses below that threshold as a great money making scheme.
Speedo reading 35 should easily put you in the NFA camp.
You’re obviously reckless, feckless, (lots of other "less’s) and a danger to society. Shoulda stayed on the beach bud! 
The topic of how long often comes up time and time again.
The usual replies of you have to have a NIP within 14 days is absolute tosh.
The force only has to issue (I. E post it within 14 days of the offence) a NIP within that period, in other words it has to be posted. It doesn’t have to be sent via recorded post to prove it has arrived. It is deemed that posted it has arrived.
If the vehicle is your own then usually a couple of weeks and you should be in the clear.
A works vehicle can be very different.
In the case of a hired vehicle like ours, the NIP gets sent to the hire company and they have 28 days to send it back, then it goes to our contral office who find out who has the vehicle and have 28 days to send it back.
Then it gets sent to our depot and they have 28 days to send it off and name the driver.
Then you as the driver get a NIP which you also have 28 days to send it off.
I know from experience.
Caught in Dec and had to change insurance in March due to having 3 expired points and trying to add 3 more. So 3 months on from date of offence near enough to sending and sorting my NIP.
In my own car it would have been much sooner.
