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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: Totting up offence
« on: Yesterday at 09:56:12 am »
Quote from: NewJudge on January 27, 2026, 03:13:29 pm
You haven't said why there was a delay to the enforcement process.

It might be helpful if you could answer this. NIPs need to be served within 14 days of offence. There are exceptions where the driver is not the RK, or current details held by the DVLA are not up to date, but it would be prudent to examine if there is any defence due to late service. 

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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: Query re NIP - Calibration Certificate and Photos re speeding ?
« on: January 26, 2026, 02:40:43 pm »
Those dragons teeth have been repainted as well.

If you check the Streetview for 2021, you can see where the sensors are.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/zx2xqK3AnEdAXfmdA

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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: Drove 1.5 seconds after a red light - 1st time
« on: January 22, 2026, 10:17:19 am »
Anecdotally, it was always rumoured to be anything <3s would be considered. Whether there is any truth in that I don't know.

The various Police sites just state that you may be eligible if you have not completed another safety course within 3 years, excluding NDORS SACs.

I think it is a wait and see unfortunately.

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The Flame Pit / Re: Have I been caught?
« on: January 19, 2026, 09:49:28 am »
Was there anybody in the outside lane when these flashes were going off?

Do the cameras go off when someone isn't speeding. Yes, they can do. Faults, calibration, updating, boredom. Was it a single flash or double?

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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: Caught without third party insurance
« on: January 16, 2026, 10:21:33 am »
* If found guilty

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The Flame Pit / Re: Access restrictions to stop rat running
« on: January 07, 2026, 09:33:51 am »
I'm always intrigued by this sort of setup.

So if we say the restricted hours are peak hours 7am-7pm surely there needs to be a journey time considered that would rule out the rat run? For example the delivery drivers refusing to enter. If they are stopping and delivery to one or multiple houses then time taken between entry and exit would seem to rule out it being used for a rat run.

Similarly for residents. Will they be able to register their vehicles? If I'm picking up my son for football for instance, I would enter one end of my street, pick him up curbside and then exit immediately at the other end.

Seems flawed otherwise.     

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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: Speeding Ticket on Highway at 5:00 in the morning
« on: December 19, 2025, 10:16:50 am »
Have you completed a speed awareness course in the last 3 years?

Edit to add.

Quote from: FuzzyDuck on December 19, 2025, 09:56:51 am
Our general advice would be to name yourself as the driver and then accept the offer of a speed awareness course or fixed penalty.
Quote from: nivby on December 19, 2025, 10:03:26 am
I already have 6 points so accepting this will bring me to 9 - dangerous zone

The naming of a driver is not optional regardless of how many points you have. Failure to do so will see you prosecuted for failure to furnish driver details which if convicted carries 6 points which will then see you potentially banned as a 'totter'. 

When was the conviction date for the other points?

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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: Drink and Drive 57 mg
« on: December 19, 2025, 10:08:24 am »
For a guilty plea, neither.

Absent any other aggravating circumstances you haven't mentioned, at that level you are unlikely to be looking at a custodial sentence so I would save your money for taxis.   

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The Flame Pit / Re: Has the world gone mad?
« on: December 15, 2025, 10:31:24 am »
Somehow the bit that leaps out as odd isn't the payout, but that a Reverend was working as a security guard at an internet gambling cafe.

Unless 'Reverend Lewis Butler' was his actual full name I guess. 

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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: Single Justice Procedure Notice - lost v5
« on: December 15, 2025, 10:03:40 am »
I'm sure there is an easy answer, but how did she get hold of the replacement V5C if it was sent to the old address?

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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: Single Justice Procedure Notice - lost v5
« on: December 15, 2025, 09:32:50 am »
Quote from: fuzed on December 11, 2025, 09:40:48 am
I really don't want her getting points or a fine due to my mistake :(

The points and fine will be because of the failure to update the V5C. The speeding was merely the catalyst. Whoever you deem was at fault for this is down to you and your bravery, but it is the responsibility of the RK to ensure all documents relating to the vehicle are up to date and correct.

Has the V5C been updated now?

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The Flame Pit / Re: Cancelled speeding NIP
« on: December 09, 2025, 10:46:39 am »
Quote from: andy_foster on December 05, 2025, 06:52:54 pm
On faceache, a poster who had an SAC booked - for 68 in a VSL 60 on the  M6 in Cheshire received an email cancelling the SAC (with promise of refund) with near identical wording ("Kent Police" replaced with "We").

Also the following post, possibly from the same page but for a different event on the M1.

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HI, I received a notice for speeding on the M1 by Nottinghamshire police for doing 57 in a temporary 50 zone. Fair enough.
I  was all booked in to take the course and received a letter from the police stating:
"We write regarding a notice of intended prosecution recently sent to you under section 172 road traffic act 1988 in relation to the above offence. We have been made aware of an issue relating to a number of speed enforcement cases in the UK . As a precaution there will be no further action in relation to this case. Yours faithfully ..."


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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: Speeding in a rental van - no NIP yet??
« on: December 09, 2025, 10:27:41 am »
They have 28-days to complete their form and they may have used most of it to do it. Alternatively, they may have been sent your details but still named the account holder, which I guess is your employer.

I would phone back whoever told you the hire company had received the request for driver details and check with them.

a) have they received anything?
b) can they follow it up with the hire company.

Yes, there is a time limit on when a speed awareness course can be offered but even if they have named your employer if you can get on top of it and walk it through the system, you should get your own nomination in time. We are only one month in so far.

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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: 58 in a 40
« on: December 05, 2025, 09:51:30 am »
As far as we are aware, it is.

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Speeding and other criminal offences / Re: NIP for failure to comply with traffic light - 1sec Any grounds to contest
« on: December 03, 2025, 10:48:36 am »
At 1sec into the red it is possible you may be offered an awareness course, so long as you have not attended a similar one within the proceeding 3 years. I'm not sure if that also includes Speed Awareness Courses or not though.

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