Safe Speed Forums

Update on colleague: he has seen his own solicitor who says he must sign and return the form. Then he will get his invite to the course, together with the fixed penalty. It seems they get the choice! He says he is going to fight it in court on principal as he does not think he needs the course of which he has heard so much about from half the staff around him -porters upwards , and has promised me a copy of his NIP. He is still "in orbit around the sun" over this! Not good if he is your surgeon this week!

Come on you dont know what type road it was . We've all got carried away from time to time, i'v gone down 40mph limits at 85mph on the odd occasion. Stupid really but i dont condem others

I passed my driving test in February 2004 March 2004 I got my first speeding ticket, 82mph in a 60 fortuntatly they offered me the fixed penalty of 3 points and 60mph I know in guilty of speeding so ive got no problem with taking the fine and the points. Even know I think as far as I can see the speed camera which got me was only there to make money and not to make the road safer as it was a open clear road in the middle of no where.

As for the automatic 6 points someone mentioned before this might be ok for most drivers but new drivers like my self would loose our licenses from one mistake. I don't think its very fair that im half way there from one mistake.

I'm on your side in this, but just to point out that from 'their' point of view, you didn't really just make a mistake, you were a 'massive' 22mph over the limit. If you had been doing 63mph, that would have been a 'mistake' because you were breaking the NSL, but you wouldn't have got penalised for it. I guess that's how they can justify taking you half way to losing your licence in one stroke.

All I can suggest is that you drive very slowly for the next 21 months! I don't think it's worth having to go through the whole test procedure again just for the sake of getting to your destination a bit earlier.

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-mike[F]
Caught in the rush of the crowd, lost in a wall of sound..

Yepp im planning todo that when I got that ticket I was on a long journy (about 4 hours) and I kinda got nummed to how fast I was going.