- Jul 17, 2003
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I’m afraid any twat doing more than one SAC is a twat and should stay off the roadsDrive like an arse, get caught, do your course, drive sensibly for 4 years, then drive like an arse again
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[Travel] Speeding Ticket
- Thread starter Seagull85
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Redinpeace
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- Apr 27, 2023
- 276
What’s this insurance thing you speak of?
Where I live most folk still wipe their arses with their bare hands, insurance, MOT and a license to drive is considered as suggestions.
Madafwo
I'm probably being facetious.
- Nov 11, 2013
- 1,881
If you choose to do it online I'd recommend doing a course run by Hartlepool Council as they're the cheapest available. Assuming @Harry Wilson's tackle is aware of this, if not I might have just saved him a fortune going forward.
Slacker!
Would I need to know the breaking distance for a getaway car departing Poundland with a boot-full of Toffee Crisp??
1066familyman
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- Jan 15, 2008
- 15,544
I think the flippant responses and level of jokiness around speeding on this thread just goes to show how seriously speeding is taken by many people. Certainly tallies with what I see on a daily basis.
What a depressing state of affairs.
What a depressing state of affairs.
Madafwo
I'm probably being facetious.
- Nov 11, 2013
- 1,881
Pretty simple maths I'd say, although you might have to account for an errant Toffee Crisp under the brake pedal.
Redinpeace
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- Apr 27, 2023
- 276
I’ve always struggled with the “save you money on your insurance “ concept with speed awareness courses as invariably it’s a half day off work plus a £100 for the pleasure of attending, then they trot out it’s not for profit? 20 people in a room twice a day 5 days a week or 20k minus the minimum wage some mush who’ll press play on the video gets who’ll also tell you where the bogs are.
1066familyman
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- Jan 15, 2008
- 15,544
So there's even competition to see who can run the cheapest courses!?
Wow! What a fvcking mess!
Redinpeace
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- Apr 27, 2023
- 276
Many many years ago someone I know was stopped as he was getting in his car blind drunk by a copper…….”You’re not going to drive in that state are you sir?“ he was asked, too which he replied “Well I can’t f#cking walk officer”
jessiejames
Never late in a V8
Get drivers score app. I had a 52% reduction on my insurance policy, this is taken against my work and private mileage. It's scored out of 1000.
- Jul 10, 2003
- 29,014
You may think so, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braking_distance
And that's before you calculate the confectionary under brake pedal factor
- Jul 10, 2003
- 29,014
My favourite was from a friend's wedding, one of his uncles who was pulled in by a young policeman.
PC "I have reason to believe you've been drinking, sir"
Friend's Uncle "Than f*** for that, I thought my steering had gone"
jessiejames
Never late in a V8
Clean license only 2 speed awareness courses in 40 years driving, annual mileage 124,800 miles a year. Recently completed 4,450000 working miles. Drive score of 987 out of 1000.
Not done one myself, but I hear this comment from everyone I know who has done one.
Sounds like whoever's idea it was to create them did well. Credit where it's due.
- Nov 15, 2006
- 6,499
The WOW emoji is for your yearly mileage btw!
I appreciate that the facetious comments on this thread may be unacceptable to those who have been injured or killed by a speeding driver.
My perspective is of someone who has been done maybe 7 times in 40 years, mostly by police leaping out from behind a bush with a handometer, or parked up a side street in a snoop van. Typically doing 37 in a 30 zone. Never pissed. Never hitting anyone.
I was done 3 times in a few weeks in Northampton. To put this in perspective, a mate of mine has been done for speeding only twice in 45 years.
On both occasions this was by sneakily parked police van.
On both occasions this was in Northampton.
He has only been to Northampton twice in his life.
(It is widely rumoured the old bill were on a money making scam with this).
That leave me 4 tickets to explain....
I was first done in London in the early 90s. Hand held, on The Mall.
I was asked to show my license at Faversham nick. I did this.
Some months later I was summonsed to the Old Bailey (I kid you not) for driving without a license.
The policeman who nicked me was livid when he found that I had surrendered my license and the dozy oaf at Faversham had put it in a drawer.
The case was adjourned. Two weeks later I had to go back and the case was dismissed.
The London copper told me the plod in Faversham had literally been put back to plod, on foot patrol duties.
On another occasion on the M25 I slowed to 40 in response to a sign. I carried on for 10 miles as cars sped past at 80. The sign to show the speed limit ceased after point X had not been switched on.
And let's not start on 'road closed' events. Signs either go up 10 miles in advance, or a few hundred yards away making a big detour necessary, or the road isn't closed at all. It is entirely random in rural North Kent. Most drivers ignore road closed signs in the first instance.
Finally potholes. Why paint round some of them but not others? (Let's not start on actually filling the fuckers). It isn't that far off having a traffic management officer chucking bricks at cars from behind a bush.
Forgive me for giving the impression that I take driving safety with a pinch of salt. I don't.
But I do have a degree of cynicism over how it (and other aspects of road safety) has been managed over the years.
Clarity, logic, fairness, perspective, signage . . . Motorways are largely decent but A and B roads are shambolic.
So I reserve the right to not be entirely po-faced in contrition about my transgressions.
My perspective is of someone who has been done maybe 7 times in 40 years, mostly by police leaping out from behind a bush with a handometer, or parked up a side street in a snoop van. Typically doing 37 in a 30 zone. Never pissed. Never hitting anyone.
I was done 3 times in a few weeks in Northampton. To put this in perspective, a mate of mine has been done for speeding only twice in 45 years.
On both occasions this was by sneakily parked police van.
On both occasions this was in Northampton.
He has only been to Northampton twice in his life.
(It is widely rumoured the old bill were on a money making scam with this).
That leave me 4 tickets to explain....
I was first done in London in the early 90s. Hand held, on The Mall.
I was asked to show my license at Faversham nick. I did this.
Some months later I was summonsed to the Old Bailey (I kid you not) for driving without a license.
The policeman who nicked me was livid when he found that I had surrendered my license and the dozy oaf at Faversham had put it in a drawer.
The case was adjourned. Two weeks later I had to go back and the case was dismissed.
The London copper told me the plod in Faversham had literally been put back to plod, on foot patrol duties.
On another occasion on the M25 I slowed to 40 in response to a sign. I carried on for 10 miles as cars sped past at 80. The sign to show the speed limit ceased after point X had not been switched on.
And let's not start on 'road closed' events. Signs either go up 10 miles in advance, or a few hundred yards away making a big detour necessary, or the road isn't closed at all. It is entirely random in rural North Kent. Most drivers ignore road closed signs in the first instance.
Finally potholes. Why paint round some of them but not others? (Let's not start on actually filling the fuckers). It isn't that far off having a traffic management officer chucking bricks at cars from behind a bush.
Forgive me for giving the impression that I take driving safety with a pinch of salt. I don't.
But I do have a degree of cynicism over how it (and other aspects of road safety) has been managed over the years.
Clarity, logic, fairness, perspective, signage . . . Motorways are largely decent but A and B roads are shambolic.
So I reserve the right to not be entirely po-faced in contrition about my transgressions.
- Jul 10, 2003
- 29,014
And I thought I was doing well with 2 speeding tickets in 45 years and somewhere between 1.75 and 2 million miles
*edit* And seeing H's full confession above,
1982 speeding doing 43 in a 30, coming into Henfield from Shoreham, Policeman with radar gun on bend immediately after 30 sign, pulled in at Henfield police station 30 yards further on. Was slowing from 60 to 30, fair cop
2004 went through temporary 50 limit on M25 doing 60. Wasn't concentrating, fair cop
1985 Not speeding. Borrowed Mrs Wz (then Miss) brand new company Golf GTI to pick up paper from 7 dials. Parked outside, got paper, came out to find Police Bikes front and back of me.
"Is this your car, sir"
"No"
"Do you know the registration ?"
"No idea"
"Who's car is it ?"
"My Girlfriends"
"Do you know how dangerous it is to be on zig zag lines at a crossing ?"
"I wouldn't still be on the zig zag lines if you hadn't put your bikes front and back"
Being a smartarse, fair cop
Did take a while to convince Mrs Wz that it was being a smartarse that got me the ticket and not 'driving like a boy racer' in her car or 'looking like a thug'. (I'd shaved my head for the first time the week before
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Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
jessiejames
Never late in a V8
My courses were 1 in my car average 37 in a 30, 2nd in lorry 35 in a 30 zone. Accident wise in my car 2 reversed into TP, whilst parking and number 2 rolled into car in front whilst not paying attention, no claim against me for that one.And I thought I was doing well with 2 speeding tickets in 45 years and somewhere between 1.75 and 2 million miles
In my lorry 3 fault, blindside reverse caught gate, reversed a rigid using reversing camera but it was the camera that hit the canopy putting hole in it and 3rd one hit lamp post as I reversed. 1 claim 50/50 banksman fault really. Non blame 3 2 TP hit me and 1 car pulled out on me.
Countless near misses either being cut up or vehicles entering from slip road.