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[webby23]

Oh it was definately me. I'd have been en-route to work Saturday morning at 09:41.
Just baffled by it because I would have pulled out of my road and this camera van is hidden  parked at the point where I'm still in 2nd gear. It's that close to my house.  

I know how annoying it is mate !!!

I got done by a fixed camera that I go past 8-10 times per week !!!

I just wasnt paying attention one day and it got me

[Danny S]

In holland you get a fine for that one and you always get the picture if you ask for it.

Good luck with it

gr

Danny

[miggy]

Bang goes my clean licence by the look of things.
This morning I received a Notice of Intended Prosecution for 41mph in a 30 limit.
Checked the location and it is the mobile camera van that often parked less than 100yds from my house.
The road in question is a 30 limit due to it being a residential area and the camera is located just after the end of the buildings, where the road opens up for a half mile of common ground, no trees, hedges, buildings, nothing at all, down to a roundabout that then becomes a 40 limit, but still the same open ground.

My question is, how do I request a copy of the photograph and is it possible to be a false reading off a vehicle coming out of the 40 limit towards the camera as I was passing ?As I previously mentioned, this van is less than 100yds from my house and I just can't accept that I was doing that speed especially as I know it's often there.

What is annoying is that there is a 1.5 mile stretch of built up, residential area that I often see idiots travelling along at what I would estimate to me 45-50mph and yet the camera is facing away from this area and is directed at the open ground, where most drivers are likely to accellerate into the 40 limit. (Profit rather than safety?  Surely not !!)
The area was a flood plain, so you'll know what I mean by totally flat, open ground.


    
        
  

When i had my first speeding fine back in 2004 they gave me an option, go on a 1 day speed awearness training for £60.00 and dont get any points, i opted for that. 5 months later i was caught again and got the 3 points and a fine.

[Turk]

On that day, at that time, I would have been driving for less than a minute. That has to be some kind of a record, surely.  

[miggy]

On that day, at that time, I would have been driving for less than a minute. That has to be some kind of a record, surely.  

I think it was a beatles one  

[albitz]

Bang goes my clean licence by the look of things.
This morning I received a Notice of Intended Prosecution for 41mph in a 30 limit.
Checked the location and it is the mobile camera van that often parked less than 100yds from my house.
The road in question is a 30 limit due to it being a residential area and the camera is located just after the end of the buildings, where the road opens up for a half mile of common ground, no trees, hedges, buildings, nothing at all, down to a roundabout that then becomes a 40 limit, but still the same open ground.

My question is, how do I request a copy of the photograph and is it possible to be a false reading off a vehicle coming out of the 40 limit towards the camera as I was passing ?As I previously mentioned, this van is less than 100yds from my house and I just can't accept that I was doing that speed especially as I know it's often there.

What is annoying is that there is a 1.5 mile stretch of built up, residential area that I often see idiots travelling along at what I would estimate to me 45-50mph and yet the camera is facing away from this area and is directed at the open ground, where most drivers are likely to accellerate into the 40 limit. (Profit rather than safety?  Surely not !!)
The area was a flood plain, so you'll know what I mean by totally flat, open ground.


    
        
  

When i had my first speeding fine back in 2004 they gave me an option, go on a 1 day speed awearness training for £60.00 and dont get any points, i opted for that. 5 months later i was caught again and got the 3 points and a fine.

you really took the course seriously then!

[miggy]

Bang goes my clean licence by the look of things.
This morning I received a Notice of Intended Prosecution for 41mph in a 30 limit.
Checked the location and it is the mobile camera van that often parked less than 100yds from my house.
The road in question is a 30 limit due to it being a residential area and the camera is located just after the end of the buildings, where the road opens up for a half mile of common ground, no trees, hedges, buildings, nothing at all, down to a roundabout that then becomes a 40 limit, but still the same open ground.

My question is, how do I request a copy of the photograph and is it possible to be a false reading off a vehicle coming out of the 40 limit towards the camera as I was passing ?As I previously mentioned, this van is less than 100yds from my house and I just can't accept that I was doing that speed especially as I know it's often there.

What is annoying is that there is a 1.5 mile stretch of built up, residential area that I often see idiots travelling along at what I would estimate to me 45-50mph and yet the camera is facing away from this area and is directed at the open ground, where most drivers are likely to accellerate into the 40 limit. (Profit rather than safety?  Surely not !!)
The area was a flood plain, so you'll know what I mean by totally flat, open ground.


    
        
  

When i had my first speeding fine back in 2004 they gave me an option, go on a 1 day speed awearness training for £60.00 and dont get any points, i opted for that. 5 months later i was caught again and got the 3 points and a fine.

you really took the course seriously then!

Well, you know how it is, one has to try

[Turk]

Do I have to take it to court to have that Speed awareness course option ?
3 points is not going to affect my insurance etc but I've grown quite attached to my clean licence.  

[miggy]

Do I have to take it to court to have that Speed awareness course option ?
3 points is not going to affect my insurance etc but I've grown quite attached to my clean licence.  

No mate, i was offered that.

[webby23]

Do I have to take it to court to have that Speed awareness course option ?
3 points is not going to affect my insurance etc but I've grown quite attached to my clean licence.  

Not all forces run courses (nice, rhymes!) and I think if they did then they would have mentioned it in the paperwork you have had?

Check your forces website for info.........?

[miggy]

Do I have to take it to court to have that Speed awareness course option ?
3 points is not going to affect my insurance etc but I've grown quite attached to my clean licence.  

Not all forces run courses (nice, rhymes!) and I think if they did then they would have mentioned it in the paperwork you have had?

Check your forces website for info.........?

It was the camera safety people who offered me that

[iainb]

Unless you can prove its not your car you have been done for speeding !

The Mig should go from 0 to 60 in about 8 seconds so if you were in it for a 60 seconds with your right foot planted its possible that you could have been 3 times over the speed limit.


So ask for the photo from the camera !

[albitz]

Do I have to take it to court to have that Speed awareness course option ?
3 points is not going to affect my insurance etc but I've grown quite attached to my clean licence.  

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So had I,31 years until weds. night

[Turk]

No, it's an un-chipped 2.5td. 0-60 is about 43 minutes  
If it is correct and not a false reading off another car, then it's a fair cop.  Just so annoying that I left my house and less than 100yds later I get done.

[webby23]

But, like me, we only risk getting done when we are speeding......

I am on 6 pts now, and drive for a living so am now being very very careful indeed