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Hi, I've been driving for 5 years now. No claims, clean license with no points and no previous issues whatsoever.

I recently had to start driving a different road where I live, it's a 30mph limit but a really wide road so I had honestly just assumed that it was a 40 - silly I know. There are also no speed camera signs on this road (I went back to check) and apparently it's hidden in the trees too.

I received two letters (NIPs) for going 40mph on the same road three days apart, and I anticipate getting another one this week coming. I appreciate that I can't claim ignorance - However both of the letters I received have the same issue date and arrived in the post the same day.

I truly know that I wouldn't have gone at this speed again if I had received a first warning, but it's like I've just been slammed 2/3 times at once without any notice of the error. Going from zero points to potentially 9, same exact speed, same exact road, all within one week of each other.

Is there any course of action where I'm able to have these treated as one offence? I understand that the rules are the rules, but this just feels ridiculous. I'd be glad to get some input from people that aren't just family & friends. Thanks a lot for reading.

You can ask the CTO to show leniency. They almost certainly won't, but they are the only ones with the discretion to drop/combine the allegations.

it's a 30mph limit but a really wide road so I had honestly just assumed that it was a 40

This is a common error, there need never have to be an assumption of speed limits as it is always signed as stated in the Highway Code, in this case I will make a stab at it having a system of street lighting (making it a 30 limit unless otherwise indicated) with no repeaters for a different limit?

There are also no speed camera signs on this road (I went back to check) and apparently it's hidden in the trees too.

No need for any signs or for the camera to be visible for you to be be convicted, you don't get a 'sporting chance'.

Is there any course of action where I'm able to have these treated as one offence? I understand that the rules are the rules, but this just feels ridiculous. I'd be glad to get some input from people that aren't just family & friends. Thanks a lot for reading.

They are clearly not one offence, as a simile, if you burgle a house going in and out 3 times it's one offence, if you go there on three separate days it's 3 offences, same here.

As it's clearly 3 separate criminal offences it may seem to be ridiculous to you, I think most people wouldn't see it that way.

People have had some success by returning all the driver nomination forms in one envelope with a plea for clemency, DO NOT make any of the 'excuses' above apart from saying it as a simple misunderstanding of the limit and you had had no chance to modify your behaviour, but as your licence isn't at risk here I doubt you'll get any relief at all. Most cases were we have seen some success is where the driver will 'tot' or risk new driver revocation.