oH bugger II

[MadDogMcQ]

I got a letter with a link to a photo of me doing 51 in a 40. Grrrr after all these years of being holier than thou, I guess I'm in for a bit of payback.

[Rusty]

Thought that new gold bling would have dazzled the camera?  :lol 

You might get offered a speed awareness course for that, they offered me one for 36 in a 30 but I elected to take the points instead. Then, less than a week later I got done again - Doh!

[Lawrence]

they offered me one for 36 in a 30 but I elected to take the points instead.

Why did you take the points?  For the extra £35 (£90 something a few years back) it costs I chose to do the course to keep a clean licence.  That was for 27 mph  :crazy

[Rusty]

[quote author=Rusty link=topic=4211.msg34719#msg34719 date=1344932227]
they offered me one for 36 in a 30 but I elected to take the points instead.

Why did you take the points?  For the extra £35 (£90 something a few years back) it costs I chose to do the course to keep a clean licence.  That was for 27 mph  :crazy [/quote]


To be honest I envisaged sitting in a room being patronised and shown photo's of crashes caused 'by speeding'. All done by blokes making an easy living from such courses. And the first time anyone involved asked a "And who knows why that is?" type question they'd have to restrain me with a tranquilliser gun.

[MadDogMcQ]

I wasn't offered a course. And I wouldn't have gone on it anyway - pretty much for the same reasons as Rusty.

[phil on a fazer]

[quote author=Lawrence link=topic=4211.msg34722#msg34722 date=1344932700]
[quote author=Rusty link=topic=4211.msg34719#msg34719 date=1344932227]
they offered me one for 36 in a 30 but I elected to take the points instead.

Why did you take the points?  For the extra £35 (£90 something a few years back) it costs I chose to do the course to keep a clean licence.  That was for 27 mph  :crazy [/quote]


To be honest I envisaged sitting in a room being patronised and shown photo's of crashes caused 'by speeding'. All done by blokes making an easy living from such courses. And the first time anyone involved asked a "And who knows why that is?" type question they'd have to restrain me with a tranquilliser gun.
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when i got caught i was going to take the points for the same reason as you listed, then i had a change of heart and did the course. Even though it was a waste of time it weren't no where near as bad as i thought.

I then got caught doing the same speed on the same road a few months later  :rolleyes

[bozboz]

How did you get caught? Camera van?

[MadDogMcQ]

Not a bloody clue Boz!  Sneaky gits were hiding in a bush I reckon.  :lol

I certainly didn't see them and I received no warning flashes from oncoming traffic.

[eddie]

obviously a mistake as the cross hair is on the rear sprocket which was revolving at over 40 mph :lol

[ddtwelve]

mine was hidden too never saw him and no pic of me smiling too  :'(

[Fazerider]

If that figure under your speed is the range he nabbed you at then I'm not surprised you didn't spot the bugger. :eek

[MadDogMcQ]

Just identified what got me.... LTI 20-20

[dazza]

Interesting, got to be worth contesting the accuracy of this.

[richfzs]

That was my feeling dazza - in the link Tom posted to, it says the laser lust reflect back from a flat surface, and as bbrown says, the cross hairs are on the rear sprocket...

[rustyrider]

LTI 20-20 with the crosshairs on anything other than the number plate WILL be inaccurate.  How inaccurate is a different matter.......

[richfzs]

What, you mean he may actaully have been doing 60?  :lol

[cable tie]

You only get offered speed awareness course if you was within there requirements they allow +3mph for speedo being inaccurate and they allow +6mph to be eligible for the course giving amax of 9mph over the limited of 30 or 40 set speed limits anything over the above 39 in 30 and 49 in 40 and it's just the points option.

I also did a course to save the points and a increase on my insurance, yeah it was a long day but as the highway code changes regular the course brings you up to date with this, and when the fella asked what the speed limit is in a transit size van on a dual carriage way out of 21 peeps I was the only one to know as i already had dealings with the old bill on this one, however I still kept my gob shut I'm a follower not a leader ! So as much as it was boring in some respect and a long day I walked out with some additional info and being up to date with the high way code so deffo worth doing, One thing to note you cannot do another speed awareness course within 3 years after doing one.

[Fazerider]

Interesting, got to be worth contesting the accuracy of this.

That was my first thought too, but the beam at that range is going to be 32" in diameter... that'll cover about two thirds of the numberplate despite the poor aim. The plate is retroreflective so the return signal from that will swamp anything from the top run of the chain which might have been argued had given an excess reading.
Anyone know where you can get an infrared absorbent film to stick over numberplates? :lol

[Lazarus]

strange....

I was stopped last August (going "a tad" over the legal limit)

The only choice I got was to the pay the fine - was not offered the speed awareness course. Are they only offered in certain areas?

(80 in a 60 Motorway)

[Lawrence]

Are they only offered in certain areas?

I believe so, yes.  Mine was in London... Tower Bridge to be exact.  Same place as at least 5 other people (out of 20 ish) in the course.