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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: Caught speeding in a 20mph - Totting up 12 points in 10 Days
« on: June 24, 2025, 10:53:14 am »
After the speed awareness course I will have four more speeding offences. Each came with an initial offer of 3 points and a £100 fine, I am also confused regarding the 36mph why it was not more points. Adding up the offers would be 12 so it would be an automatic ban. It’s the ban I’m so desperately trying to to avoid so I felt I had no choice but to ask for my case to be heard in court. Are you suggested I should have accepted 3 and then had the last case heard in court. I’ve  never been in a court before so I’m not sure what to do.

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Speeding and other criminal offences / Caught speeding in a 20mph - Totting up 12 points in 10 Days
« on: June 23, 2025, 10:53:37 pm »
My wife who is registered disabled of whom I am her primary carer fell ill over a period of weeks. She underwent a 5 hour operation to remove a cyst. The recovery is normally 6-8weeks. After a week of having the operation my wife and I were called into the hospital to discuss the results of what had been sent away and tested. At this point our lives fell apart, my wife was diagnosed with cancer and needed a further operation of which would require us to attend another hospital further away. As you can imagine the following days many tears were shed and the stress levels were at times intolerable. I took my wife to the hospital where she underwent a 6 hour operation to remove the cancer. Over the following day I worried so much and over the next 10 Days I was at her bedside from morning till I was kicked out.

After the 10 days we were able to come home to start a 10 to 12 week recovery. At this point I was over the moon to have her home. However, the following day I received my first traffic offence. I had been caught speeding in a 20mph limit by a fixed speed camera. Over the next 4 days I received four more! a total of five! The last one offered a speed awareness course but the others were a fixed three points and a £100 fine. The speed offences ranged from 32 to 36mph. The speed camera was on a hill and there was no other traffic around (between 06:05 - 06:27) so id imagine my mind just wandered as I was worried sick going to visit that something may have happened to my wife overnight. This just amplified the stress and both my wife and I were regularly breaking down in tears not the environment I wanted to create.

The thought of losing my license is unimaginable, my wife being disabled and needing to attended various Dr appointments along with further cancer preventive treatment and check ups, relies on me for transport as she is unable to drive. She has restricted mobility and is unable to walk far. I have asked for my case to be heard in court and I am waiting to be given a court date. I know I've done wrong and I expect a punishment but I just need to keep my license.

If anyone has any advice, I am 70 years old in the UK and have kept a clean license for the last 48 years. This is all a complete mess I just don't know what to do. The last two months have been the worst I ever experienced.

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