Well it has finally happened.
01 November 2005, 04:32 PM
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Well it has finally happened.
After 22 years of happy driving I'm finally just about to succumb to my first ever 3 pointer and £60 for speeding.
This happened last Wednesday and I'm still waiting for the letter but was doing about 38 in a 30 past an unmarked camera van so I know it is coming. When I say unmarked there was the thinnest of yellow and certainly not fluorsecent strips marked Video Surveillance Unit on the rear of this thing. I know coz I went back around the block and double checked. The usual vans they have around here can be spotted miles off.
Needless to say it was 9pm at night on an "accident blackspot" and the road was "packed with unsupervised children" (must have been at least none of them).
So I now go from a safe driver to a speed criminal in one double white flash. No doubt my insurance company will enjoy being informed.
I know it's been posted 100 times before but has anyone got the weblink to a website with rules and regs about such matters ? Getting off on any form of technicality would work wonderfully well.
If all hope is lost I'll be posting the 60 quid with an accompanying letter that will no doubt go straight into the bin but I'll feel better for writing it.
This happened last Wednesday and I'm still waiting for the letter but was doing about 38 in a 30 past an unmarked camera van so I know it is coming. When I say unmarked there was the thinnest of yellow and certainly not fluorsecent strips marked Video Surveillance Unit on the rear of this thing. I know coz I went back around the block and double checked. The usual vans they have around here can be spotted miles off.
Needless to say it was 9pm at night on an "accident blackspot" and the road was "packed with unsupervised children" (must have been at least none of them).
So I now go from a safe driver to a speed criminal in one double white flash. No doubt my insurance company will enjoy being informed.
I know it's been posted 100 times before but has anyone got the weblink to a website with rules and regs about such matters ? Getting off on any form of technicality would work wonderfully well.
If all hope is lost I'll be posting the 60 quid with an accompanying letter that will no doubt go straight into the bin but I'll feel better for writing it.
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Originally Posted by Bottomfeeder
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100% correct, if you dont have the letter in 14days, you ont be receiving it, they're got the 14days for you to be served with the 'Notice of Intended Prosecution'.. Fingers crossed it'll miss you!!!!
09 November 2005, 09:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Jonesy1981
100% correct, if you dont have the letter in 14days, you ont be receiving it, they're got the 14days for you to be served with the 'Notice of Intended Prosecution'.. Fingers crossed it'll miss you!!!!
09 November 2005, 09:59 PM
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Originally Posted by pimmo2000
sorry mate, thats rubbish... the 14 day thing is a myth
"Fight-fight"
They (scameras) have 14 days from the day after the offence to serve the vehicle owner with the N.I.P & S172 (inc weekends and bank holidays). So, as long as you were the driver and the owner of the car*, have not moved home 'recently' or changed any details on either your driving licence or V5 then they only have 14 days.
If you are the owner, but were not driving, as long as they get the documents to you within 14 days then they have 'as long as they want' to contact the driver.
However, they have a maximum of 6 months to 'lay documents with the CPS'
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