Nearly A Boat Question!!

[ArthurWood]

Well, I had a clean licence for a long time too and I was done for 83 in a 70 in FL a couple of days ago. Serves me right for not turning on my radar detector. Cost me $118 and to keep it off my licence I can attend 4 hr of driver improvement school. That should be interesting, as the driving test in many states involves driving around traffic cones in a car park. And it shows......

 

[jfm]

Re: There\'s some dodgy advice in this thread

Haydn this is my specialist sbject. Here goes:

1.Most likely nothing happens. Cameras often flash but no film in them
2.If there was film in it, then because there was no plod present the reg keeper of car will get a Notice of Intended Prosecution. The NIP must be posted to arrive with you inside 14 days. Otherwise you’re off
3.It is not correct that a NIP is needed for any traffic offence, NIPs only apply to camera cases where a machine not a human plod gathers the evidence
4.The NIP requires the keeper to say who was driving car
5.Re Byron’s point, it is now settled law that this does not breach human rights/self incrimination
6.If keeper does not give the name of believed driver, then keeper is liable for fine. If it’s a company, company secretary is liable. There are many loopholes here, like use a Vanatu company or something
7.The person named by the keeper then gets either a fixed penalty (fine + 3 points, oe summons). Time limit for this is 6mths AFAIK. Of course, this person can resist if he thinks he was fitted up by the keeper.
8.The rest is obvious
9.Matts French totty sounds perfect.

Get yourself a www.morpheous.com or a www.originbluei.com (or, like me, one of each)

 

[Guest]

Re: ..11% good advice in this thread

I wasn't sure about her driving, altho everyone is insured, but then I'm not even sure about my wife driving and she's never crashed either. She was excellent with the kids/housework/pets. She did have a licence, but it was in French, though she was quietly confident. My wife said that she was a much better driver than me, even. She was extremely honest, we thought. I think we have a christmas/easter card from her, somewhere, shall i try and find it? Her father works for the French government, I think. I don't suppose that they have speed limits in France, do they? I think she lives fairly close to the centre of town, near the college. Her father is called Jean-Pierre, I think, tho she always referred to him as "Pappa". I don't have her number, though god knows why - she cost a fortune in telephone calls, and in hot water too, always in the bathroom.

 

[Guest]

This made me laugh, till I though what the parent of the child run over by the seeping motorist might feel - pay up and slow down

Roly, Voya Con Dios, Glasson, Lancaster

 

[Guest]

Re: slow down anyway

joking aside, completely agreed. It is appalling that uk speed klimits are (mostly) either 30 or 70. Many inner city roads should be 20mph, ramped, or even 10mph, with cameras.

But elsewhere, spped limits of 50 mph are silly: the A2(M) is inaccessible to pedestrians, dead straight for a miles at a stretch, yet a 50 mph limit, with cameras. Result is a jerky brake stamping run of traffic. Drivers aren't stupid. They're at least as clever me, some even as wise as you. M-way flashing between midnight and 6 am is silly. But blasting past school exits at parp parp more than 20 ish is lunacy, and 30 kills.

For the poster, plymouth another silly silly place, big sweeping bypasses again inaccessible to pedestrians, 70 plus for modern cars a doodle, sneaky snap snap cameras only on wide wide dual carriageways that are possible at 120.

My advice - make cameras count. Drivers aren't weirdo loonies. They're us. Almost all of us. A 30 mph limit on lots of innner city roads is too high, too fast, and bicycles or kids should have priority. But elsewhere, IMHO, more than 70 should be allowed. In a ferrari capable of er well very high speeds, a gasping police vauxhall flashed me down on an empty m25 at 5 am on a sunday morning, over 110. I paid, but fraid still believe that those speeds on empty roads are nowhere near as dangerous as even 30mph in pedestrian zones. Or, of course, copcars chasing at/near their maximum speed for not a very good reason other than to nick a fast car.

 

[hlb]

Re: slow down anyway

Could not agree more. But they dont put cameras in dangerous places like schools and things. Only on big wide roads. This one was three lanes with trafic lights every 100yds. I just zoomed a bit to fit in middle lane then stopped again. Camera went off just as I took my foot off.
Trouble is with everyone doing exactly 30mph. How do you change lanes into small gaps. If you slow down to do it, car behind is going to bash into you or at leased blow horn like mad and road ragey bit. or you stop and make caose. Far more safe to zoom into gaps, than the slowy down looking over shoulder brake, go, stop, acceleratey thing that causes all the bumps in back.


Haydn