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Mimilxve_

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Speeding Fine
« on: December 30, 2024, 02:33:15 am »
Hi,

New here and I thought I would give it a try finding some advice online.

I am a fairly new driver and very careful as I drive with two children a majority on the time.

On the 1st of November at Holloway Road, Parkhurst Road end, I was flashed. Considering my dashboard said I was going 21mph, and a car beside me had just zoomed past, I assumed the flash was at him as I was not speeding in any way.

A month later I received a letter from the Met Police about the very same occurrence stating I was driving 25mph. In the photo you can see the other car beside me side by side. There was barely any details on who to contact if I wanted to discuss the matter, and instead I was offered a speeding course to avoid gaining 3 points on my license.

Whilst I could just take the course and be done with it. I don’t believe I should have to pay £90 and lose my first speeding waiver over a situation where I was not speeding.

How often do these speed cameras get it wrong?

It read online that if I do challenge it and lose I will end up with points. When I had then returned the form with my details as requested, I then found a page online that allows me to submit information on the matter, however, it was too late to do so as I had posted the form back and couldn’t get the reference number to start the query.

Please help!
I have until March to make sure I complete the course.

TIA
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Re: Speeding Fine
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2024, 08:35:38 am »
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A month later I received a letter from the Met Police about the very same occurrence stating I was driving 25mph.

Was this letter (a month after he event) the first you knew of the matter? Are you he Registered Keeper of the car and if so are all the details shown on the V5C correct?

Generally speaking the police will not enter into much by way of an argument about this. Their devices are assumed to b e working correctly unless the contrary can be proved and if you want to defend the allegation that proof must come from you.

You would have to decline the course offer and the fixed penalty (£100 and 3 points) which they may offer if you do no take he course, and instead have he matter heard in court where you will have o plead not guilty.

The cost of failure is very high and you are unlikely to leave court with much change from £1,000
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Re: Speeding Fine
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2024, 07:34:04 pm »
I would ask plod for any other photos to help you identify the driver and see what they send.

we had a case on ppp where the photo on the NIP showed a vehicle beside the the target vehicle.(both were luton bodied vans)  when other pics arrived it was clear the second vehicle which was the culprit.
it was also clear no human had actually looked at the photos.
the case was dropped.

not saying this has happened here but it's a possibility
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Re: Speeding Fine
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2024, 08:51:22 pm »
In the OP's OP, he mentions a "the photo" which has presumably already presented itself by some unknown mechanism.
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