Sp!ke
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On the Motorway near Leeds the other day, Roadworks sign ahead and temporary 50 MPH limit. I backed off ( anticipating the roadworks ahead) and by the time I went through them was doing 50.
Got pulled over a few miles up the road and was told that for 0.138 miles after the 50 limit I was doing 71 MPH. The officer agreed that I had slowed to 50 by the time I hit the roadworks (this can also be seen on the video footage) but still issued me with the fixed penalty ticket. I appreciate that traffic have a job to do and all that but this was just too #### officious IMO.
Does this sound right to you? I would have thought it would not be unreasonable to take a few hundred yards to slow down from 70 to 50 under normal conditions. I also thought one had to be followed for quarter of a mile. Is 0.138 miles enough?
I am thinking of fighting this one as not only do I disagree with the offence but the fixed penalty notice also states that the distance was 1.38 miles not 0.138 miles.
I know we got a few people on here that know about this sort of thing <img src="http://www.mbclub.co.uk/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''> so what do you guys recon? Is it worth fighting or am I just going to be wasting my time?
Got pulled over a few miles up the road and was told that for 0.138 miles after the 50 limit I was doing 71 MPH. The officer agreed that I had slowed to 50 by the time I hit the roadworks (this can also be seen on the video footage) but still issued me with the fixed penalty ticket. I appreciate that traffic have a job to do and all that but this was just too #### officious IMO.
Does this sound right to you? I would have thought it would not be unreasonable to take a few hundred yards to slow down from 70 to 50 under normal conditions. I also thought one had to be followed for quarter of a mile. Is 0.138 miles enough?
I am thinking of fighting this one as not only do I disagree with the offence but the fixed penalty notice also states that the distance was 1.38 miles not 0.138 miles.
I know we got a few people on here that know about this sort of thing <img src="http://www.mbclub.co.uk/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''> so what do you guys recon? Is it worth fighting or am I just going to be wasting my time?