speeding convictions, the poll!!

[stretchy18]

I got banned for one offence with no points on the licence, did a 28 day ban, licence back no points on it (obviously record of naughtyness bit thats life)

900 ninja, 115mph, double white lines, overtook 15 cars, one of which was a copper, court appearance

 

[Voley]

Clean as a whistle, me.

 

[weltweit]

Been to 12 and been banned twice. Ignored the ban both times.

That is actually nothing to be proud of.

Driving while banned means also driving without insurance, so what would have happenned to anyone you hit?

 

[Looby]

Clean licence and don't speed (been driving 15 months). I was worried I had been done about 4 months ago but it was completely by accident. I was lost in southampton and the roads kept changing from 30 to 40 then back to 30. My tom tom fell off the windscreen and I saw the 30 sign just as I'd gone through a camera. Worst thing was I was in my mates car so I was just waiting for a phonecall.

It really fucking pisses me off when I have twats right on my bumper getting shitty when I'm doing 30. If I was going to speed it certainly wouldn't be because of some cunt behind me, it just turns me into Miss Daisy.

Speed limits around town are generally fair and I'd like roads like mine to be made 20 zones because the traffic calming hasn't worked and I've already had one cat run over.

 

[Looby]

Been to 12 and been banned twice. Ignored the ban both times.

Sorry I should have multi quoted but I forgot about this post.

You sound like a fucking twat imo.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

I got banned from taking my test if that helps...

 

[marty21]

Clean licence and don't speed (been driving 15 months). I was worried I had been done about 4 months ago but it was completely by accident. I was lost in southampton and the roads kept changing from 30 to 40 then back to 30. My tom tom fell off the windscreen and I saw the 30 sign just as I'd gone through a camera. Worst thing was I was in my mates car so I was just waiting for a phonecall.

It really fucking pisses me off when I have twats right on my bumper getting shitty when I'm doing 30. If I was going to speed it certainly wouldn't be because of some cunt behind me, it just turns me into Miss Daisy.

Speed limits around town are generally fair and I'd like roads like mine to be made 20 zones because the traffic calming hasn't worked and I've already had one cat run over.

i think if you get 6 points? in the first 2 years after you get your licence, you have to re-take your test

 

[subversplat]

I don't think I should vote on this thread

 

[Maggot]

Incidentally, despite the time lavished on designing this mega-poll, you have neglected drivers who used to have 3, 6 or 9 points but have since had them wiped .

Yes, I'm in this category. I once had 5 points on my licence (can you still get that?), and also had 3 points but now it's clean.

 

[Maggot]

I got banned from taking my test if that helps...

How did that happen?

 

[Agent Sparrow]

How did that happen?

Well, "banned" is too strong a word really. I changed instructors just before the test (after a catalogue of problems with lessons anyway) - got a complete bastard who made me dead nervous, and then refused to take me to the test because he didn't want to ruin his track record.

 

[dooley]

i got up to 9 then lost them all. though i did get done twice by fixed camera in brixton a year or two back, but i just ignored the offer of fixed penalty

 

[bi0boy]

I have never got points, though I only drive over the limit on motorways (generally not above 80). I am very careful to keep below e.g. 30 in a 30 zone from signpost to signpost.

Anyone moaning about getting a ticket needs a slap really, there's no excuse.

 

[idioteque]

I got three points on my license for going through a red light (by the smallest fraction of a second) during a driving lesson. I'd asked my instructor if I should brake quickly or keep going and she said to keep going or I'd end up stopped in the oncoming traffic... My dad wrote a letter to the police though saying that it'd probably do me more harm than good to have points before I'd even passed, and they retracted them

 

[marty21]

i knew someone who got to 9 and got his mum to take his speeding points from then on, apparently there is a market in people taking the points for close to ban drivers

 

[softybabe]

nil points! got flashed once but camera was prob empty...6 yrs driving ...more now ...every week day for work but I know where the cameras are ....I dont think I speed

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

3 points, I got done doing 84 in a work van on the M6 just north of Penrith. The annoying thing was that I was in the inside lane, and on the picture I'm the only vehicle you can see, I literally had the road to myself.

Cunts

 

[aqua]

your poll doesn't work - currently 0 points but had 3 but they passed

though this might change as I think I got caught the other day bugger

 

[marty21]

your poll doesn't work - currently 0 points but had 3 but they passed

though this might change as I think I got caught the other day bugger

my poll is made of fail

i have endorsed my poll licence

 

[geminisnake]

3 points, I got done doing 84 in a work van on the M6 just north of Penrith.

If they're anything like the ones round here they'll be set for 83(I was reliably informed) They can set them for anything though.

 

[softybabe]

my poll is made of fail

i have endorsed my poll licence

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I have 6 points. Twice done by a camera.

For years before cameras I used to get pulled once or twice a year and never once got nicked for it, as soon as a camera sees you creep a tad over the limit, bosh you're nicked.

Also got 4 points for careless driving when I was 17, but they're long gone.

I have a friend, who should he ever apply for a licence will instantly have it endorsed with 23 points - "Norwich Union? Quote me happy!"

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I have a friend, who should he ever apply for a licence will instantly have it endorsed with 23 points

 

[trashpony]

I had no points for ages but got done a few months ago for doing 38mph on a dual carriageway where the limit was 30mph (no signs that I noticed until after the camera).

I drive much more slowly since I sprogged - I rarely go over 80 nowadays (and that's on motorways obv, I have never speeded in built up areas - I'm like sparklefish, I live in a 20mph zone with speed humps and people seem to compete for how fast they can go between the bumps )

 

[rubbershoes]

no points for me

god knows how

 

[obanite]

No points, rarely speed in cities and quite cautious in general. Stick to 80ish on motorways most of the time. Only time I've done more than 110ish was in another country

 

[MikeMcc]

Caught twice, first one became discharged (35 in a 30, me being really stupid), then got caught again (84 on a clear dual carriageway which narked me a bit). That's just cleared again. I'm very good on single lane roads keeping to the correct speed limits and I'm good in shite conditions, but if traffic permits I do tend to tootle along motorways at 90.

 

[Kanda]

None whatsoever.

 

[bigbry]

Got 3 points in October 2002 - vowed not to get any more - so far have been successful. Always try to stick faithfully to the limit in built up areas but admit to exceeding it on open roads and motorways.

Have to own up to receiving a 90 euro 'on-the-spot' fine from a French Gendarme in the summer of 2005 - that was a bit of a choker.

 

[berniedicters]

3 spent points for speeding (1997).

3 on licence, due to come off this/next year (2005)

2 tickets, one of which I contested in court and won (don't try this at home!), the other of which they fucked up the paperwork on and I never got the points even though I coughed to it.

I'm pretty impressed at how few people have more than 3 points in the poll A Direct Line survey from a couple of years ago found that over a million drivers in the UK were "one conviction away from a ban".

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1582201.ece

Anyone moaning about getting a ticket needs a slap really, there's no excuse.

Mostly, that's true. But - as some on this thread have shown - there are times when the system doesn't work. There are some notorious cases where a camera has been set up in the wrong place, or speed limit signage has been incorrect, where people have successfully avoided conviction - and I am sure that there are many, many more cases where people have just accepted the propaganda that says there's no point defending the allegation because it's cheaper just to take the points than risk conviction in court by trying to defend themselves.

And this idea that speed cameras - in particular the mobile laser ones - are 100% accurate and always used properly, such that nobody is ever wrongly prosecuted, seems to me somewhat optimistic. Nothing's perfect, and there have been enough cases where clearly spurious readings have been taken to suggest that speed cameras are no exception.

i knew someone who got to 9 and got his mum to take his speeding points from then on, apparently there is a market in people taking the points for close to ban drivers

They're getting much hotter on this now - I think one of the police forces in the Midlands or Manchester ran a campaign about this, because so many people are doing this. What's perhaps more worrying is that it isn't hardened criminal types who are prepared to try it on, but "respectable" types who'd usually consider that sort of perjury beyond the pale.

That's the danger of a draconian system - the harsher it gets, the more otherwise law-abiding people will consider it morally justifiable to get around it.