Speeding

[slocjo]

speeding

[grasscarp]

Do you have a question? As someone who has done it and been on a speed awareness course I would like to help!

[pixie373]

Racing

[Nibble]

Que????

[bookbinder]

I also have done it, but I have not yet gone on a speed awareness course. (That's next month.)

[slocjo]

sorry about that, computer shut down.... got caught speeding doing 64mph in a 40 zone, won,t ban me will they?? Got caught 7yrs ago aswell..

[grasscarp]

No they will not ban you. I was doing 105 on M3. I had also been filmed at 110 but because I pleaded guilty this was not mentioned. Got 5 points. 300 quid fine plus 64 quid costs. Magistrate demonstrated with his finger next to his thumb how close I came to losing my licence.
Several years later was on camera doing 37 in a 30 which led to speed awareness course and nil points.

[slocjo]

bookbinder.. what speed was you doing??

[Meg]

I thought over 100mph on a motorway was an automatic ban. I was pulled in at 108 got a hefty fine and banned. It was about 14 years ago but I thought it would have been stricter now.

[grasscarp]

I know you usually get a ban over a hundred, and they asked me to explain why I did it and why I should not get a ban.

[Meg]

Thanks grasscarp, I'd no excuse for doing it (racing the London Edinburgh express train would not have been a good defence) but I did have a very frail mother living 10 miles away who I had to visit twice daily. I was lucky to get a 2 week ban and a large fine.

[grasscarp]

I was on a bright Saturday morning with light traffic racing with an XK8.
This was not what I said in court though!

[slocjo]

fine came though the door, £60 & 3 points, just to let you know.

[boxtops]

Is this the same episode of speeding? http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Law/Question1255826.html