Well I'm Gutted

[teacake44]

After 50 years of having a clean license, I'm pretty sure yesterday I've been done, coming out of a 40mph to a 30mph I was still doing about 34/35 when I saw the police camera van on side of road. Had not been in the car long after a walk and was a bit hot and bothered. DAM! :( Now got to wait and see. This will hurt if so!!

[Grandpappy]

I'm more interested in 2 completely opposite responses-One from Retrocop and the other from Rockrose. Whilst both are suggesting the 'Awareness course' the fact is that the police themselves have a responsibility to make their presence visible , which they are failing to do if there is to be an option of attending a 'speed awareness course' as an alternative . Double standards I think? Nobody speeds deliberately unless contemplating suicide.

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[Cloverjo]

Grandpappy//Nobody speeds deliberately unless contemplating suicide. //

I didn’t know my husband was suicidal. I must try to talk to him about it.

He speeds because he’s impatient and he thinks the rules don’t apply to him. I would guess that’s true for the worst speeders.

Calling someone in for doing 31 in a 30 limit is ridiculous.

[ToraToraTora]

smow: "Can you get done for doing 31 in a 30?. Thought it had to be 10% " - technically yes, in reality they'll apply a 10% tolerance.

[teacake44]

I might just add that the small stretch of 30mph between the two 40mph is a very affluent area, house prices min £600.000 /700.000. Its funny as lasts nights news, police chiefs complaining of struggling to fight serious crime, due to a shortage of twenty thousand officers, how can they be that short, having two officers sitting in a camera van, on a small stretch of 30mph. why not have a permanent camera there, ( if its a trouble spot?) why did they do away with so many permanent cameras?

[Hopkirk]

They wouldn't be police officers in the van.

[teacake44]

OMG Hopkirk, I'm more gutted, I've waited all these years to be done by Mr Plod, and its a fellow citizen that's going to take my £100 :) :)

[retrocop]

Grandpappy
It was for good reason that police officers were once allowed to use their common sense and discretion in deciding who to prosecute or caution.When I was a former Traffic officer I never volunteered to join a radar team hiding in a front garden. Any speeding offenders I stopped were pursuit speeds over 5/10 of a mile. It was only me on the ground who made the decision to prosecute or caution depending on the circumstances at the time and not by a random film interpreter who picks the highest 10% out of thousands of camera photos.

[New Judge]

//Can you get done for doing 31 in a 30?. Thought it had to be 10% over?//

The National Police Chiefs’ Council has guidance which suggests that enforcement should not be taken at speeds below (Limit + 10% +2mph). I have heard reports of people having action taken below that speeds but have never seen any evidence myself.

//…the fact is that the police themselves have a responsibility to make their presence visible , which they are failing to do if there is to be an option of attending a 'speed awareness course' as an alternative .//

Whatever gives you that idea? They have no more responsibility to “make their presence visible” when detecting speeding motorists than they have when hiding in the bushes to catch a burglar coming out of a property he has just burgled. That they might offer a speed awareness course as an alternative to court action (something they will not know until the vehicle’s speed has been established) is neither here nor there.

[Khandro]

// neither here nor there.//
If it's neither here nor there, - where the hell is it?
Chuck Murray

[New Judge]

Ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! :-)

Perhaps "immaterial" is better :-)

[vulcan42]

Chic

[New Judge]

I remember Chic Murray telling a tale that he was extremely drunk and fell over on his backside. A passing police officer asked him what he was doing. "I'm just trying to break this bar of chocolate in may back pocket" he said.

[teacake44]

Can I not spend a night in a cell, have medical attention on stand by if needed, coffee or tea, and a full breakfast in the morning, and then sent on my way with all charges dropped? :)

[Khandro]

Chic - yes, I beg his pardon, wasn't his diminutive wife called Maisie?

They had a hotel & my father used to stay with them when he was working in Scotland.

[New Judge]

//...wasn't his diminutive wife called Maisie?//

I believe it was Maidie, Khandro, with whom he formed a double act in his early days and before they married.