Caught Speeding!

[Smowball]

I've just opened a letter from Essex police. Apparently I've been caught doing 58mph in a 50mph zone on M25 near the Dartford Crossing. I remember the day - I'd dropped teen Smow at his dads and on way back my IBS started playing up with really bad stomach cramps and I was panicking as that's the sign I'm going to need a bathroom - very very soon!! I was worried sick I wasn't going to make it home as I know as soon as I get to the crossing I have 40 mins of driving left. I honestly didn't realise I'd gone over the limit though. Letter doesn't say what the fine or points will be so does anybody know?? It just encloses a form for me to admit or deny I was driver and to give my license details. What a start to the weekend : (

[Berniecuddles2]

mrs c got 3 points and £100 fine last year for speeding

[hc4361]

£100 fine and 3 points. You may get the opportunity to do a speed awareness course - around £100 and no points

[aelmpvw]

as a fellow ibs sufferer you have my sympathy, at least you weren't stopped by a policeman and grilled for an hour on the dangers of speeding ...

[RobNorth]

Don't worry about it too much, it's not a serious infringement and you may just get a warning.

[hc4361]

I do like an optimist but Smow will not get off with a warning

[zebo]

Try and plead the Alex Ferguson defence, he got away with speeding because he needed the loo, he was proportionally far more over the limit. Luckily he could afford a dodgy defence lawyer.

[Berniecuddles2]

accept it pay up move on IMO

[jno]

Smow has a decent defence; will she get a chance to present it to anyone, or do they make it too costly to do so?

[Smowball]

Oh I'm not going to dispute it . Just wondered what the fine/ points would be.

[Smowball]

And aelmpvw that would be my biggest nightmare! Close to getting stuck in a lift!

[hc4361]

Smow, I'm sure you do anyway, but take Immodium (or similar) before embarking on a long journey

[Smowball]

I do hc and I have prescribed medication but sometimes it just doesn't work : (. I've even been in the supermarket before and have had to literally abandon my trolley and run out.

[aelmpvw]

for 'run out' read waddle out

[wolf63]

Dodgy bowel syndrome - when you gotta go you gotta go fast.

[Smowball]

Clenching buttocks tightly : o

[ImLostAgain]

I got caught a few weeks ago. £100 fine and three points or a speed awareness course. I took the course. It cost me £84. No points, no conviction. Actually I found it quite interesting.

[ImLostAgain]

Oh I forgot to say, the 'course' was only four hours long.

[Smowball]

I've done the course before (don't ask lol)

[woofgang]

sorry smow what a ermmmm.....pain in the bum......

[Hopkirk]

Don't watch the YouTube video of the guy stuck in a lift.