How many points on your licence?

[Igg]

Another speed camera (one of those nasty forward facing ones), has just gone up on one of many roads that I used to consider safe for 'driving'.
Which made me question how much longer will my licence stay clean (over 10 years now - no points!!!)
Without wanting to give too much away (never know who reads these things), my speedo shows the wrong side of 100mph on a daily commute into the office - with the mix of cars owned here, what's everyone else's licence like - are TVR's etc bad for you?

[M@H]

My speedo suffers a similar affliction every day... after 10 years of driving I also have a clean licence.. ..just manage to know where it is appropriate to use speed and where it isn't on my daily runs.
Cheers,
Matt.

[plotloss]

11 years driving in the UK - no points
14 months of driving in the US - 11 points.

Matt.

[Toffer]

You don't get points at track days

[scruff400]

Use track days to rave your delerium, then you can smugly poodle around on public rights of way, under the national limit, thus protecting your licence's cherry...

[Windsorphil]

I too have the same problem, I also travel through the variable speed limit on M25 everyday (lots of cameras, but you can see which gantry has cameras).

My licence is clean as like most people here I am careful where I push things...

[Igg]

quote:
Use track days to rave your delerium, then you can smugly poodle around on public rights of way, under the national limit, thus protecting your licence's cherry...

Yeah I would, but I drive a Lexus LS400 and somehow I don't think that's the car for a track - unless someone out there thinks otherwise!

[JonRB]

The ultimate irony for me is that until recently I too had a clean license despite numerous occasions of "pressing on".

And what did I get my points for? 50mph in a temporary 40mph limit whilst "poodl[ing] around on public rights of way, under the national limit, thus protecting [my] licence's cherry".

[billb]

I have 14 points on mine at the mo!! luckily some are 3 years old but they stay on yer license for 4 years for some stupid reason i still dont get?????

what comes with living in northampton

[ap_smith]

I have 6 points.

Picked up 3 this year for 58 Mph in a 50 zone (tight a*sed b*stards)

Picked up another 3 points 2 years ago for parking on a wavy line.

I'm hardly mr motoring criminal of the year. bah.

[JonRB]

quote:what comes with living in northampton

Guess where I got my 3 points from? Just down the road from Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire!

[Gargamel]

I have 6 pts currently - but have all in all had three sp30 convictions.

two cameras and one bike related moment.

71mph in a 60 - norfolk duel carriageway early on a sunday
94 in a 70 - A14 - caught by a police Biker

38 in a 30 - portable tax camera in the back of a white van on the reading ring road.

and all those before I bought a fast car....

[philshort]

8 points, a 3 and a 5. The 3 was Northampton A14, caught by disguised camera van. Could happen to anyone, even the smug "clean licence coz I'm cool" brigade.

The 5 point was 64 in a temporary 40 at 6:30am. The video evidence clearly showed the unmarked police car doing 52mph in same 40 limit when I passed him, which corroborates my view that for the prevailing conditions speeds in excess of 40mph were not unsafe. He didn't give himself a ticket though.

PS. In neither case was I driving the TVR - Audi A8 and Golf TDi respectively.

>> Edited by philshort on Tuesday 6th August 13:13

[cotty]

quote:
Use track days to rave your delerium, then you can smugly poodle around on public rights of way, under the national limit, thus protecting your licence's cherry...

Thats a little like me with my karting, get all the agression out on the track then just cruise home .

By the time I finish a race im knackerd and not up to pushing a car on the road. To many gatso's around.

Oh and three points from a few years ago when I had the TVR S1, 50 in a 40.
The auto in the touring has calmed my driving down but its so quiet the speed sometimes creeps up without me noticing so have to keep checking the speed.

>> Edited by cotty on Tuesday 6th August 13:39

[jedi71]

No points for me but then again I haven't got a license as I'm currently serving a 56 day ban

[billb]

quote:
No points for me but then again I haven't got a license as I'm currently serving a 56 day ban

for what?!

[jedi71]

110 on a 3 lane stretch of the A23 at 22-20 with only 3 other cars on the road at the time

[campbell]

I had 11 points a few years ago but I have non at the moment
I got 8 points for driving without due cair and atention and 3 more for doing 84MPH in a sixty zone only 4 miles from home (bastards) but that is life

[nigelbasson]

3 points for going through a red light by accident (and it actually was!!) in York.

No points for speeding yet (yet because I too live in Northants!)

[Don]

No points right now. But 3 points to come for 74 in a 60 in North Wales last week