17-09-13, 10:26 PM
I'll say he got off lightly! I got a 6 month ban for 12 points under the totting-up system, and not one of those individual incidents could have been described as "recklessly" speeding. On one of those occasions I overtook a car whose driver was dawdling along, on her mobile phone, at about 15mph in the dead of night - got fed up and blatted past - oh shit, speed camera! Another was a police operated radar - was slowing into a village, a few mph over the limit but still slowing when caught- "we heard you slowing down", wouldn't let this one go tho! Another was about 80 mph on dual carriageway, 70 limit, fixed camera on a road I wasn't familiar with, ok speeding, but not recklessly. Plus the fine (can't remember how much, think this guy got it worse regarding this).