Got done for 46 in a 40, what's your most pathetic?
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bad company said:
Terminator X said:
No one has ever afaik produced evidence of a ticket 33 in a 30. Make of that what you will.
TX.
The challenge of showing proof with redacted personal details of such a ticket remains. TX.
bad company said:
Terminator X said:
No one has ever afaik produced evidence of a ticket 33 in a 30. Make of that what you will.
TX.
The challenge of showing proof with redacted personal details of such a ticket remains. TX.
I got caught on the M40 in Warwickshire last October for 61 in a temporary 50 limit. I could see the NSL sign but they'd installed a forward facing camera just before the end of the 50 stretch.
It was a Wednesday night at 8.30 so there was no workforce to protect and no other vehicles visible in the phots they sent me, but as it was my first speeding offence in 48 years I had it coming so I took the SAC option.
47 in a 40.
24 years ago. It was via radar gun at the side of the road, 10:50pm at night, not near any houses, no one else around.
Even the copper who stopped me said "Well you weren't really going that fast.... but were having a bit of a crackdown, so I'll be writing you a ticket" and slapped me with 3 points. Great, thanks.
Only speeding ticket I have ever had.
24 years ago. It was via radar gun at the side of the road, 10:50pm at night, not near any houses, no one else around.
Even the copper who stopped me said "Well you weren't really going that fast.... but were having a bit of a crackdown, so I'll be writing you a ticket" and slapped me with 3 points. Great, thanks.
Only speeding ticket I have ever had.
My first ever post on PH when I was stopped at 88 mph in a 60 limit and somehow got away with it. Maybe they’ll come looking for me now. 
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BigGingerBob said:
This thread is making me wonder how much money the temp limits on the A303 have raised. Arbitrarily changing from 50-40 mph and I'm sure at one point it goes to 30 for a few hundred yards.
It does indeed. The 30 is for a few hundred metres up to the roundabout then again after. It caught me out at 7:30am on Christmas Eve. Yeah... impressed with that. It also caught out a lad I know who has been driving less than 2 years and is now facing loss of his license which as a commercial emergency sparky leaves him jobless.
Today I was on the same stretch and just set cruise to the posted limit, same on the M3.
kingofdbrits said:
32 in a 30.
Many years ago now, this wasn't Police enforcement but a group of old folk in a village that had been given a high viz and a radar gun loitering at a bus stop, so got a letter on yellow paper asking me to think about my speed followed by a guilt trip on the possible repercussions of my reckless actions.
I guess the Police must have posted the letter to get my address, unless they'd seen my car parked at home? No mention of police or DVLA on the letter.
It did give us a laugh.
But it didn’t happen did it…Speedwatch use 35mph as the minimum recorded speed as per Police guidelines. If you were caught, presumably at 35mph, perhaps you should be thinking of how on earth you missed people standing on the side of the road in high vis jackets.Many years ago now, this wasn't Police enforcement but a group of old folk in a village that had been given a high viz and a radar gun loitering at a bus stop, so got a letter on yellow paper asking me to think about my speed followed by a guilt trip on the possible repercussions of my reckless actions.
I guess the Police must have posted the letter to get my address, unless they'd seen my car parked at home? No mention of police or DVLA on the letter.
It did give us a laugh.
Dunbar871 said:
24 in a 20 surely has to be the most nonsensical. Personally I'd prefer they just add 1p on income tax for all the good it'll do. Utter, complete and absolute lunacy as all the Bliar anti speed bulls
t ever was.
Especially as they installed the camera after a very serious crash which had absolutely nothing to do with speed at all but a lorry illegally using the road and its brakes failed but certainly earned someone a few bob now.t ever was.
The Rotrex Kid said:
70mph on a dual carriageway!
(I was in a van)
That's unlucky. I have thought about this few times, speed limit for larger vans is 60mph and hardly anyone drives one at 60mph. We have fleet reports for speeding at work and never has it flagged a van doing 70 on dual carriageway so it must be a general dumb system that just monitors the actual speed for the road.(I was in a van)
Would mobile speed cameras send out tickets for 70 in a van?
Edited by Chuffedmonkey on Saturday 29th June 15:36
Boleros said:
The challenge of keeping evidence from around 22 years ago with multiple postings in between remains. Perhaps I should have had the foresight to think that one day some armchair warriors would challenge my little tale of woe on the internet and kept the paperwork. On the other hand, perhaps not because who cares, right?
Don't take it personally, not everything is about you, you know 
It's just that we've not seen one.
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