speeding fine

[petesgrayz]

How do you get out of paying a speeding fine. I have just recieved my first fine after 21 years driving.

[spammylou]

give an alternative name and address that you make up, and I guarantee they will not come back to you. They are not allowed to. Make up the name and choose an address, like a business one. Of course, I would never encourage anyone to do this or condone this type of action.   Check this out with a legal service, i.e AA or RAC they told me once you give the other "drivers" name they cannot contact you.

[kempie]

I would suggest you continually speed and give false information. That way you can increase your chances of receiving one month's imprisonment for obstructing a police officer � section 89(2) Police Act 1996.

[libertie]

Sorry, petesgrayz but if you done the crime ~ then pay the fine!

[Ducati]

Speed camera presumably??? Very annoying, I sympathise. These are nothing more than arbitrary revenue raisers.

I was 'done' doing 80 in a 70 on a clear night at 2am, on a dry road - and had to pay my �60 and accept my 3 points.

 

80 in a 70 in these circumstances is NOT dangerous to me or anybody else - and I'll argue this point until I'm blue in the face - and if a copper had been there, as opposed to a revenue raiser, I would not have been done.

 

Yes, I am bitter about this 'tax' that was imposed on me - it was unneccsary given the circumstances: had I been doing 10 over the limit outside a school at 3.30pm, then quite rightly I should be heavilly penalised, even banned, and wouldn't complain, but getting done doing 80 in a 70 at 2am on an empty road is effing ridiculous.

 

I expect I'll get the usual 'commit the crime do the time' brigade piping up, but given the circumstances (yes, I am repeating that particular phrase), this sort of soundbite is, at best, daft.

 

Now then, I've heard this from a friend who heard it from a friend so can't vouch for it, but if it is a company car, swear blind you don't know who was driving it at the time of the 'flash'. Apparently this happened to the friend of a friend so the authorites advised that the company secretary would be responsible, they appealed saying you can't just arbitrarilly hold somebody responsible, and apparently it worked.

[Impret-Sir]

Just want to add my support to Ducati's point, you could have been driving down that road at 2 am drunk as a skunk, with no lights, on the wrong side of the road, but as long as you were under 70, you would have got away with it. (Most) police have some common sence about these things, but a machine has none, the circumstances of the "offence" do make a difference.

[libertie]

Yes I agree that it is totally annoying, but the fact is most of us do speed and lots of people are seriously injured and killed on our roads because of it! If you don't want to risk being fined then...........

[twiglet4frog]

Anyone see that traffic police programme after eastenders on Monday 13th June?

Unmarked police car was tailgated heavily with barely 3 INCHES between the road rage drivers bonnet and the unmarked police car along the outside lane of a dual cariageway, when the police driver puller to the inside lane to allow him to pass and record him he sped up to 100MPH on a dual carriageway marked to a max 60MPH because of entering a town. He then came up to another driver that wouldnt move out of the way and then UNDERTOOK him at approx 100MPH.

My point is this, he did all that and then sped at 70MPH through a 40 MPH limit before ramming his brakes on for a Speed Camera. The camera didnt catch him but the police officer did as his driving was dangerous beyond belief! He nearly caused 2 crashes and to no effect from any speeding camera!

Another example is a accident spot in the papers a few months ago that had 5 fatalities on the one small stretch of road in a year, not nice i know but apparently not one single crash was caused by speeding, 1 was a drunk driver, another was overtaking a tractor with oncoming traffic, and the other 3 were head on collisions, and yet with no speeding accidents they have now placed a speed camera there!??! If no one was speeding how is a speed camera going to help road safety?

[Ducati]

Damn right - call me cynical by all means, but I genuinely feel that these immobile tax collectors have not one jot to do with safety - they are there simply to collect money.

[twiglet4frog]

the only place i can see them as a viable safety measure is at the entrances to school's where it encourages drivers to slow to 30MPH or less. I dont mind being forced to drop my speed if i have crept up to 33 or 35MPH if it means i dont knock down some irresponsible 10 year old fooling about with his mates on the kerbside!

Lets face it, signs, road markings etc dont encourage crazy drivers to slow down but the yellow boxes that flash seem to do the trick and if that means they drive like an idiot but have to slow for my child leaving school thats great!

A child hit at 30MPH is more likely to survive than at 40MPH