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clan chieftain · Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell

Must admit I am not too bad considering I have been driving 47 years. I have only had a couple of 3 pointers for speeding both in the works van but my worst was in Kelso about 8 years ago when I was towing an old marina on a spec frame and the strap broke and it rolled off and hit a pole Laughing

. Just my luck the militia saw it happen and I was fined £60 and got 3 points. It was funny now I think back on it as the marina i was towing was smashed anyway. Laughing

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Scotty · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 883

I came out of a car show at Doune Motor Museum a number of years ago where Central Region's finest had set up a speed trap on the straight stretch heading towards the village of Doune.

They stopped I don't know how many classic car owners, certainly I was one of the long row of pulled in cars to eventually receive a fine of £30 and 3 points for doing 34 mph in a 30.

Brian M · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 8:37 am Post subject:

After almost 20 points-free years, on Drive-It day this April I set off at 6.00am in the Amazon to attend the Hagerty Event at Silverstone and Donnington.

For once I was not pulling the Safari and was enjoying the extra performance, but along the A127 I kept pretty much to the 50 mph and 70 mph limits. There is a strange partial roundabout on the road near Basildon and it has a 40 limit for about 50 yards, and of course it is covered by a camera.

I was clocked at 52 in this bit, and owing to my clean record was offered the opportunity to attend a speed awareness course (for £95) instead of the £60 fine and three points. Of the 25 offenders on my course, 10 of us had been caught by the same camera.
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47p2 · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2010 Location: Glasgow

Churchill Johnson · Joined: 11 Jan 2011 Posts: 359 Location: Rayleigh Essex

Richard H · Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 2154 Location: Lincolnshire, UK

There is an overgrown Rover P4 in a field just before that speed camera. It's been there years, and is almost unrecognisable.

I got caught in a mobile speed trap by Essex Police's finest about six months ago. 38 in a 30. I went on a speed awareness course in Wickford, cost £95. I found the same as Brian, most people there seemed to have been caught at the Fortune of War (although at the Southend bound camera which was only recently repaired after a long time out of order).
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Bitumen Boy · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 8:25 pm Post subject:

There's a really sneaky, and quite dangerous, traffic light camera trap as you head out of Cardiff on the old Newport Road. It's on the second of two sets of lights set really close together - so close there's only room for 2 or 3 cars to wait at the second set without fouling the junction - that common sense would suggest should be phased together, but they're not! What happens is that you come towards the lights, probably doing 35-40 (in a 40 limit), both sets stay green and you hold a steady speed, expecting to sail straight through - THEN the second set turn red, just as you pass through the first lot. IF you've got your wits about you, IF the road is dry, IF you're not being tailgated by some idiot - then you can just about pull up in time to avoid a ticket. They haven't got me yet with this one, but it must have made them a pile of money over the last few years on a quiet junction that, at least every time I've been that way, doesn't really seem to need traffic lights at all Evil or Very Mad

Jim.Walker · Joined: 27 Dec 2008 Posts: 1229 Location: Chesterfield

Fifty six and a half years with no endorsements or points on my licence. Riding motorbikes as well as four wheel vehicles. Sometimes 70 or 80 thousand miles in a year.
I did once get "flashed" at about 2.30 a.m. as I finished a taxi shift.
Notice of prosecution was duly received stating I was doing 46 mph. I disputed that admitting I was speeding, but only by 3 or 4 mph. The Police sent me copies of the camera shots half a second apart. No disputing that it was me and my car, but the position of the rear wheels in relation to the road markings was also clear.
I took a measuring tape to the site and measured the distance my car had covered in the half second between photos and worked out the speed at 35 mph NOT 46 mph as was stated.
I elected to go for trial, but the Police never followed it up.
Jim.
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