Re: Caught at last
Originally Posted by
Realist
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No chance at all you'll get a fine Galty.
You will be offered a Speed Awareness Course which will cost you about £90.
Accept and it won't be reported to the police and you don't have to report it to your insurance either.
The course will last about 4 hrs and will be light hearted but essentially a load of carp. You just have to sit through it and play along.
There is a huge push at the moment to generate £millions from this whole speeding scam. They have no real interest in stopping you speeding. They just want millions of people paying £90 a crack.
Last year there were well over a million people on these courses in the UK. That's some £100 million going to these gits.
You will find that its hard to get on a course any time soon. The private companies keep sending out the detector camera vans to catch a steady stream of people in easy target locations. It's usual to get a course 2-3 weeks in the future.
The whole thing stinks but it is what it is. Abuse of authority to generate £millions because the police funding has been cut so much.
Just done the course interesting
After the introduction.
They asked how many were court for in a 20 mile zone for speed 3 people put their hands up(a few London broughers have all their roads set at 20 mils limet
They went on to say the number of deaths and the injured that speeding causes.
And then a lot was about road signs.
OK SO
My offense was I hit traffic light as it turned amber so I speeded up and passed before it hit red light
Thought when I opened the letter I was WAS NOT done for jumping a red light...no IT was for speeding(39)
No markings on the road as the old cams take two pictures to determine the speed you where going.
So I asked about this on the course.
Was told on the course that the camera I( was caught on )was first use from last year and is digital now can estimemate your speed that instant as you pass it.
Morale to this story is those white lines in the road will disappear with these new cameras they have you by the bollocks and more will be court because no white lines in future to give them away
PS a very nice interesting day.