Safe Speed Forums

Interesting poll on PH with nearly six hundred responses so far. This is not a sample of the general public this is a forum frequented by keen drivers remember.

I am not sure if you need to be a member of PH to see the results, let me know if you have a problem and I will post a screen shot.

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Driving fast is for a particular time and place, I can do it I just only do it occasionally because I am a gentleman.
- James May

I heard that 2 million people a year get done for speeding alone, not sure if thats how many are nipped or how many get points etc but over 3 years (before the points are nulled) thats six million motorists or approx one in five with a speeding "nab". Then there's the other points "offences"....

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.

Yes, I was chatting to guy last night who had just had a ticket for one of those hanging deodorisers....hanging from his rear view mirror.

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The world runs on oil, period. No other substance can compete when it comes to energy density, flexibility, ease of handling, ease of transportation. If oil didn’t exist we would have to invent it.”

56 years after it was decided it was needed, the Bedford Bypass is nearing completion. The last single carriageway length of it.We have the most photogenic mayor though, always being photographed doing nothing

You've got to be joking!!!
If they pull you for that, on what grounds?

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.

If it restricts your vision -dertimentally in the opinion of the officer's professional opinion ... we can pull you up over it :pocpcorn:


Worth noting this site over MOT rejection on windscreens


http://www.ukmot.com/6-1.asp

It would depend on the size and number of the air fresheners a-dangling. I have heard of one lurid example whereby the driver had quite a cluster of used and replacements attached... which was why he allegedly got done for it.



We may of course - if just a simple matter - simply offer a vehicle rectification notice as removing the offending items is rather straightforward but this would be down to the officer's professionally made opinion.


http://www.ukmotorists.com/law%20enforcement.asp


This site may a useful site for browsing


Oh .. and for my licence - - still as clean as the date first issued. I tend to keep things to COAST

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Take with a chuckle or a grain of salt
Drive without COAST and it's all your own fault!

A SMILE is a curve that sets everything straight (P Diller).

A Smiley Per post
FINES USfor our COAST!

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon - but driving with a smile and a COAST calm mind.

Words of Advice Yes
Vechicle Defect Rectification Notice if a slightly wrong attitude perhaps
FPN If very very bad attitude and definately not to make up the number so some bix ticking boss can claim to have met his or her target.

As for my licence still as clean as the day I got it 35 years ago not that that would count for anything in the event of a minor indescretion.

Banned twice as a teenager (1970's) .. totting up. stupid bigheaded teenager.

Went back to Australia whilst still banned and took the whole thing again and still passed first time again @ Kalamunda (very strict).. P plates till Uk licence sent over.

3 points speeding a couple of times over past 22 years, last one always expired before next one. Clean licence for past 8 years...

Watch me go and get flashed/pulled now I've said that !!

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The Box said "Windows XP or better" ... So I installed Ubuntu

My licence is filthy. And it is beginning to de laminate. How much does a replacement cost?

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When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells
When I see a youth in a motor car I do d.c.brown

It's about 20 quid. Note that if your photo replacement is due, or nearly due, you may also have to include a new photograph of yourself. You could have done it online, but the site is down [at the moment]. Try later. DVLA will not pay your fine if you are "nicked" for driving licence offences while their site is down !

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The world runs on oil, period. No other substance can compete when it comes to energy density, flexibility, ease of handling, ease of transportation. If oil didn’t exist we would have to invent it.”

56 years after it was decided it was needed, the Bedford Bypass is nearing completion. The last single carriageway length of it.We have the most photogenic mayor though, always being photographed doing nothing