I was given a fixed penalty (£60 and 3 points) notice last night by 2 very polite PCs. They caught me doing 60 in 40 going East on the A13.
Apart from the fact that it's completely mad to have a 40 speed limit on a 3 lane carriageway, I was lucky since the PCs could have sent me to Court (policy apparently is that they can, if they want to, send to Court if you're more than 25% above the limit, and they 'almost have to' send to Court if you're 50% above the limit) where disqualification is possible, but didn't since I admitted to speeding, was polite and contrite.
Luckily the PC had no idea what a CLK 55 is, as he was trying to read the '55' bit but could not see so well in the dark.
They were in a White Discovery with "POLICE" on the lights roof bar thing. I never saw this because the Auto Dimming RVM was working so well (since the lights from the Discovery is so damn high) that the giant "POLICE" bar on the roof disappeared into the very darkened background.
You have been warned
Apart from the fact that it's completely mad to have a 40 speed limit on a 3 lane carriageway, I was lucky since the PCs could have sent me to Court (policy apparently is that they can, if they want to, send to Court if you're more than 25% above the limit, and they 'almost have to' send to Court if you're 50% above the limit) where disqualification is possible, but didn't since I admitted to speeding, was polite and contrite.
Luckily the PC had no idea what a CLK 55 is, as he was trying to read the '55' bit but could not see so well in the dark.
They were in a White Discovery with "POLICE" on the lights roof bar thing. I never saw this because the Auto Dimming RVM was working so well (since the lights from the Discovery is so damn high) that the giant "POLICE" bar on the roof disappeared into the very darkened background.
You have been warned