Right. All your comments are valid and quite correct. One for the chin me thinks.
Ta very much
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Nip is on its way back all signed and correctly filled in.
In no particular order:
1. The road is a fast A road, some twisties, some straights, some flowing double bends.
2. The camera sits about 1/3 of the way along a 500yd straight down hill stretch.
3. The camera distance marks coincide with the start of the double white lines.
4. That stretch of road is through a small hamlet, perhaps 15 houses and a hotel.
5. I was on way to pick up at the hotel, which is 100yds past the camera.
6. The car that I was following, I might have been behind for 5 miles, it might have been doing approx 20 mph when I couldn't pass it and up to 70 when I could have. As we approached the camera site, they may have braked hard from 30. I might have got pqssed off and gone round them, then turned right. Common sense would have suggested ignoring them and following at a distance, human nature over ruled common sense and here we are...
7. The momentum of a two ton car, coupled with a reasonably steep hill did me no favours.
8. The missing sign is at the other end of the site, all the repeaters are present and correct.
9. Using the highway code distances as a guide could I should I have been able to slow enough to make the right turn from that speed? Rhetorical and hypothetical question that needs no answer.
Long and short of it, there's a fixed penalty with, quite rightly, my name on it.
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sorry to say over the solids you have no chance take it on the chin and remember next time not to follow so close (runs for cover)
Cover not needed.
Lesson being pay enough attention to what is going on around you, whilst not actually getting caught up in it.