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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: Drink and Drive 57 mg
« on: January 10, 2026, 11:47:06 am »
Quote from: Brenda_R2 on January 09, 2026, 03:21:33 pm
Quote from: NewJudge on January 08, 2026, 11:03:08 pm
I'm not too sure why Roy asked the question.

Not speaking for him but I've seen on other forums where there is an assumption that if you are in possession of both a UK and an EU driving licence then you can present one and keep the other one clean.

So Pawel, originally from Gdansk but now living in Colchester, gets 6 points for speeding and hands over his Polish driving licence - his UK licence remains clean and if insurers check the DVLA database when he comes to reinsure his vehicle they'll find nothing.

The assumption is wrong but it seems to have legs.

Because foreign licence holders get UK points added to a UK ghost licence?  About 20,000 a year apparently.

 

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News / Press Articles / parking on the grass (verge) - US style penalty $160000
« on: January 01, 2026, 12:29:25 pm »
Never complain about London two wheels on the pavement parking fines.

Florida homeowner must pay more than $100,000 in outstanding fees for improperly parking on her own property after the state’s Supreme Court declined to hear her appeal that argued excessive fines.

Zenaida “Sandy” Martinez initially filed a complaint against the city of Lantana, Fla., in February 2021, according to Circuit Court documents obtained by PEOPLE.

According to the complaint, Martinez owed more than $165,000 to the city "for trivial code violations" — about $100,000 primarily for parking in her driveway with two tires partially covering the grass, and more than $60,000 for two cosmetic violations. The complaint alleges that in total, the fines are “almost four times more than Sandy earns in an entire year.”

According to a release from the Institute for Justice (IJ), a free-of-charge public interest law firm representing the homeowner, Martinez lives with her two driving-age children and her sister, who all own cars so they can get to their jobs or school. When all four cars are parked, “sometimes one of them would have two tires on the lawn.” For that, the city fined $250 a day for 407 straight days.

Edit: after investigating further it's actually for parking on her own grass instead of on the driveway.
The cosmetic penalties appear to be for damaging her own grass!

Florida has weird parking regulations.

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: LBO-BRENT // Code 62, Parked 1+ Wheels on Footpath // Larkspur Close (off Old Kenton Lane)
« on: December 17, 2025, 10:29:43 am »
That's a speed table not a crossing point at pavement level. There are signs for speed humps at the entry to the road.

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: 2 PCN tickets issued by 2 different councils (Trafford and Salford) for the 1 offence
« on: December 10, 2025, 10:45:30 am »
According to several  maps the boundary is the centre line of the river.  The CEOs of both councils should be aware of the boundary lines of the authority.  It appears Salford CEO disagreed with Trafford CEO regarding the boundary

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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: NIP by speeding camera at London Road Derby - any grounds to contest?
« on: December 02, 2025, 11:29:26 am »
Quote from: AceKingPin on December 02, 2025, 10:35:28 am
Thank you @FuzzyDuck. Looking through the evidence, the camera was a LTI 20.20 Ultralyte 1000 mobile speed camera, so it must be one of the mobile sites. Before I ask the constabulary for photos, would you have the 2 locations of both known mobile cameras?

Many thanks and kind regards

Opposite Wickes and RTC Business Park are two reported locations but a mobile camera could, by definition, be virtually anywhere. .

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Private parking tickets / Re: Stanstead Southgate Park (McDonalds)
« on: November 22, 2025, 11:20:51 am »
Quote from: b789 on November 22, 2025, 09:12:46 am

You could try and get them to issue a POPLA code by making a formal complaint and fibbing about never receiving the initial Notice to Keeper (NtK) and requiring them to consider the complaint as an appeal as required by the PPSCoP §11.2, but MET are notoriously vexatious and it may or may not be successful.



So disappointing!

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The Flame Pit / Re: What satnav software do you use to spot speed cameras?
« on: November 06, 2025, 02:02:52 pm »
Quote from: JohnBravo on November 05, 2025, 05:22:42 pm
Hi All,
I hope you are well.
I wonder what is the best software to use to spot speed cameras.

I use Waze for quite some time but I don't know if this app is up to speed with all the changing conditions on UK roads.

They also changed the way the pop ups appear on the screen including the speed camera warnings.
They changed something after an update and these pop ups now take the bottom 1/4 of the screen and I cannot even see the speedometer.
If it's an average speed check then these pop ups come up every so often which is pretty annoying.
Please advise.

My car oe inbuilt sat nav shows the speed limit and the vehicle speed at top left hand corner and beeps if the limit is exceeded.  In average speed camera sections it shows vehicle speed and average speed  between cameras.

If you want a paid  app that is updated weekly try https://www.pocketgpsworld.com/


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The Flame Pit / Re: I've been caught!
« on: October 14, 2025, 11:56:14 am »
Quote from: roythebus on September 23, 2025, 03:28:36 pm
Yes, I had a hire car in Belgium for a few weeks while my trusty Range Rover was being repaired, the hire company sent me a letter in French (rather than a French letter) which apparently equated to a s172 in the UK, they named me as the driver for exceeding the 50 limit by doing 59 (km/h). The usual €25 admin charge and now a waiting another French letter from the local plod. the thing is, they don't have my address as the hire car office copied some gibberish address from my passport and driving licence that was nothing like my home address in the UK. I wonder if the DVLA in their wisdom will reveal my details to the Belgian police? I don't have a problem, hands up, guilty m'lud, just wondering.

Perhaps, more to the point is whether the Belgian authorities will ask DVLA to supply RK details?  Since January 2020 the exchange of details was withdrawn.

There are no reports of EU authorities pursuing penalties through the UK courts.

Speeding in Belgium has a 6 km/h tolerance which suggests you were recorded at 65 km/h

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: Wokingham Council PCN / 31j - Entering box junction when prohibited / Easthampstead Rd
« on: October 08, 2025, 11:52:52 am »
Quote from: stamfordman on October 07, 2025, 09:08:40 pm
This is the car identified so not the red one.

I think we've seen this box before - it doesn't look compliant to me as goes back way beyond the fire station.



It's probable the fire appliances turning left from the fire station would require a wide swing into oncoming traffic.  Hence box moved far enough back to allow that manoevre

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Civil penalty charge notices (Councils, TFL and so on) / Re: CARDIFF COUNCIL PCN PERFORMING A PROHIBITED NO LEFT TURN INTO CAR PARK
« on: October 05, 2025, 02:24:22 pm »
It's probable that the Council's intention is to prevent vehicles queuing to enter the car park and blocking the single carriageway after the pedestrian crossing. Vehicles entering the car park from the opposite direction have a yellow box preventing such obstruction.

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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: SJP Notice - 2 offences
« on: October 04, 2025, 12:54:40 pm »
Quote from: roythebus on October 02, 2025, 09:15:31 pm
From what I've heard, most if not all EU insurances cover the vehicle rather than specific named drivers. As others have said, there's not much overseas police can or will do to find the driver. Was he from an EU country? Since the B word the UK has lost access to EU driver records, and the same applies to EU countries losing access to the DVSA database.

Before Brexit it's reputed the UK police forces never  applied to EU countries for 'owner' details.
France did issue penalty notices to UK RKs, initially in French, and, just before Brexit, in an English language version.

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The Flame Pit / Re: ANPR barrier entry exit but charges shown ONLY inside car park
« on: August 05, 2025, 03:02:25 pm »
Quote from: andy_foster on August 03, 2025, 12:38:51 pm
Doesn't count if it's not in italics


It's a matter of choice perhaps?

"Sic usually appears in parentheses or brackets, sometimes with the letters in italics".

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The Flame Pit / Re: ANPR barrier entry exit but charges shown ONLY inside car park
« on: August 03, 2025, 12:29:11 pm »
Quote from: Southpaw82 on August 02, 2025, 12:01:53 pm
Quote from: The Slithy Tove on August 02, 2025, 11:27:06 am
Pedant mode...
Quote from: d612 on July 31, 2025, 04:45:21 pm
As I recall barrier on entry which records your licence plate.
There is no such thing in the UK. US license (sic) plates are literally that, as they include "tabs" with the month and year on them to prove that you have paid the license fee for the vehicle for that year. That is not the case for plates in the UK.

/Pedant mode

Thank you!

Neither is “license” a noun.

License is a noun in US English hence the (sic) after it in ST's post.

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Private parking tickets / Re: APCOA PN - Stansted Airport set down without valid payment
« on: August 01, 2025, 12:37:11 pm »
Quote from: DWMB2 on August 01, 2025, 12:14:33 pm
There's every chance that the £7 goes to the airport, not APCOA.

They'll almost certainly cancel at this stage.

That suggests that ACPOA  (Airport Parking Corporation of America), the largest parking company ever, are doing it for nothing.

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The Flame Pit / Re: ANPR barrier entry exit but charges shown ONLY inside car park
« on: July 30, 2025, 10:13:05 am »
Quote from: andy_foster on July 29, 2025, 08:43:33 pm
How could you "just leave" within the 15 minute grace period if, as you told us, there was no way out without paying?

Clearly, somebody is telling lies.

Or just lack of detail by the op?

There are car parks where exiting within the free period doesn't require payment.

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