please help re: speeding tickets

[ATI]

is 14 days includes weekends?

also if less than 40 MpH can u get away with £60 fine and a course instead of 3 points? am i correct?

[patdavies]

is 14 days includes weekends?

also if less than 40 MpH can u get away with £60 fine and a course instead of 3 points? am i correct?

 

It is 14 calendar days; so it includes weekends and public holidays.

 

Some areas will offer a speed awareness course if you are only slightly over the limit. (Usually up to 36 mph in a 30). These cost between £70 - £90 and you do not get any points; also you must not have previously attended such a course in the past 3 years.

 

There is no right to such a course

[jimjamyaha]

There is a way to get out of it, which has been proven recently.

 

When you receive your notice, the police ask you to admit you were driving, or state who was if it wasn't you. They don't give you your basic human right when facing prosectution which is 'the right to remain silent'.

 

If you remain silent then it is up to the police to prove that it was you driving before they can prosecute. Unless it was a forward facing camera and they have a mug shot of you behind the wheel, it will be very difficult/impossible for them to do that.

[barracad]

If you fail to name the driver I believe you would be committing an offence under the Road Traffic Act.

[jimjamyaha]

Sorry, you are absolutely right.

 

read this Drivers take speed camera rights case to Europe - Yahoo! News UK

 

I was told they had won this case, but obviously not yet.

[barracad]

Yes I was vaguely aware of this case. When you said it had been "proven recently" I thought I'd missed something!!

 

Will be interesting to see the outcome of the case.

[steve dunn]

a bill went through the commons on monday 9 oct and is now being sent to the Lords and should be passed early november with the new graduated system

 

Road Safety Bill [HL]

2

(2)

In section 53 (amount of fixed penalty), for subsections (2) and (3) substitute—

“(2)

Any order made under subsection (1)(a) above in relation to an offence

may make provision for the fixed penalty for the offence to be different

depending on the circumstances, including (in particular)—

(a)

the nature of the contravention or failure constituting the

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offence,

(b)

how serious it is,

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the area, or sort of place, where it takes place, and

(d)

whether the offender appears to have committed any offence or

offences of a description specified in the order during a period

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so specified.”

(3)

In section 84(2) (regulations about surcharge notices), for paragraphs (b) and

© substitute “and

(b)

the amount of the penalty stated in the offer is less than the fixed

penalty applicable in the circumstances,”.

[Bookworm]

Ok, and what does that mean in plain english? :-?

[patdavies]

Basically, it means that you can get between 2 and 6 points for speeding offences, depending on the severity

[buzz]

The thing that I cannot understand is the fact that you are fined AND given points for driving infringements..

 

Surely this is two punishments for the one "crime"

How can this be right?

Shouldn't it be one or the other.

 

Buzz