I am a wanted man

[Sp!ke]

I got home this evening to find a brown official looking envelope addressed to me using my full name (including my middle name) waiting for me.

It could only be bad news I thought and sure enough, a notice of intended prosecution and a declaration form attached for the alleged offence of doing 35mph in a 30 on a rural straight section of road on a downhill stretch immediately after a NSL and less than 100 meters from my work. Caught by a gatso that I have passed every day, twice a day for the last 8 years.

Should I feel riddled with guilt and remorse or should I feel aggrieved?

 

[ringway]

I got home this evening to find a brown official looking envelope addressed to me using my full name (including my middle name) waiting for me.

It could only be bad news I thought and sure enough, a notice of intended prosecution and a declaration form attached for the alleged offence of doing 35mph in a 30 on a rural straight section of road less than 100 meters from my work. Caught by a gatso that I have passed every day, twice a day for the last 8 years.

Should I feel riddled with guilt and remorse or should I feel aggrieved?

Stroll on..

Has the Gatso been re-calibrated?

 

[stumpy1]

Gutted for you. Unusual not to offer a speed awareness course for a minor infraction

 

[timskemp]

Aggrieved? No. Guilty? No. Ashamed? No. Resigned to the inevitable? Yes.

 

[st13phil]

Sorry to hear of your heinous crime, Spike

Unusual not to offer a speed awareness course for a minor infraction

They may well still do that - don't forget that Spike hasn't identified himself as the person driving, yet.

 

[garystu1965]

Yet every day near my home I see people jumping red lights at a busy junction. Totally dangerous as it sweeps around a blind bend. It's right near the local cop shop and they are nowhere to be seen. Scandalous.

 

[Sp!ke]

Sorry to hear of your heinous crime, Spike They may well still do that - don't forget that Spike hasn't identified himself as the person driving, yet.

When I do they may not offer me such an option

 

[garystu1965]

If you have no points already I am nearly 100% positive they'll give you an option to go on the speed awareness course. If so go on it - you'll enjoy it. It's two years since I've been on mine and I tell you I'm a better driver for it.

 

[Sp!ke]

yes, I blame lack of education for all my misdemeanors.

 

[Ian Hunt]

a notice of intended prosecution for the offence of doing 35mph in a 30 on a rural straight

You evil, evil man. You should be ned!



Bad luck mate. If you were ten or twenty over then.. well it was a risk you took & lost.... but 5mph?
It's not like you were practicing handbrake turns outside a school....

 

[Aoraki]

alleged offence of doing 35mph in a 30

Is that within the ACPO guidelines?

 

[Dryce]

Caught by a gatso that I have passed every day, twice a day for the last 8 years.

That makes the underlying offence driving without due care and attention then, doesn't it.

Should I feel riddled with guilt and remorse or should I feel aggrieved?

Prison is too good for you.

 

[Sp!ke]

That makes the underlying offence driving without due care and attention then, doesn't it.

I have a more realistic explanation, I have new tyres on so my speedo is under reading what it did last week by 1-2 mph.

Undue care... no, more like skillful precision let down by a change of hardware.

 

[Sp!ke]

Is that within the ACPO guidelines?

I thought it was 10% +3mph but on reading up a little bit, some districts use 10% +2mph.

 

[Smiley]

they are clamping down on people like you breaking the law ....you should be out in a couple of years.

 

[Mercedes cozy]

Same thing happen to a friend of mine, they should put on a course 99.9999% if you have no other points and because the speed was only 5mph over the limit.

I have been told that you can go over the limit by 10% which makes it 33mph but you went 35mph.

If you have a clean licence at the moment, don't worry just sleep on it and fill the details of the driver. You most likely will go on that course.

However I have heard of people contesting the fine by asking when the camera was last calibrated and where is the record.

 

[Sp!ke]

I'm beyond caring to be honest. My wife was quite cross about it though.

So just this minute I shrugged my shoulders and wrote her name down as the driver on the declaration.



































OK I'm Joking... tempting though


A guy I knew was sent on a speed awareness course a couple of years ago.

The rather ironic thing was that fact that he was probably more aware of the dangers of speed than maybe a handful of people on the entire planet.

He was/is a land-speed racer, spending his entire life devoted to breaking records each year on the Bonneville salt flats. I suspect the others on the course learnt more from him that day than they did from the lecturers.

 

[Mercedes cozy]

About 3 years ago a bloke I knew who put his dads name down on the form and got his dad the points and fine.

But No one cared because his dad no longer drove a car anymore and still had a valid licence.

 

[Frank O' Phile]

The only difference between Sp!ke and a lot of others here, is that Sp!ke got caught.

As mentioned, you are a proper wrong'un and must be up in the top ten of Britain's most wanted.

 

[Sp!ke]

About 3 years ago a bloke I knew who put his dads name down on the form and got his dad the points and fine.

But No one cared because his dad no longer drove a car anymore and still had a valid licence.

There was another similar case where someones father had to go to prison for perjury for doing just that.