speeding and licence

[Andy B]

speed limit plus 50%=ban, but i know people do 80 in an 30 and only get 3 points

How do they get away with that then ?

dont know??/

Depends who you know! 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/4559173.stm

[Martin_1962]

Here goes, I know of a number of 30 limits 60 or 80 even is safe in.

One is 1/4 mile outside of a village on a hill away from it.

Virtually everyone does over the limit down as you are out of the village heading towards the 60 and using the hill with fields either side to accelerate.

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.189284,-2.081869&spn=0,359.99846&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=52.189284,-2.082125&panoid=VohyyjGBu9gAQy2-0kfPOA&cbp=12,92.06,,0,-18.56

See no houses - 60 here is fine.

[Squealey]

speed limit plus 50%=ban, but i know people do 80 in an 30 and only get 3 points

He's probably called Ashley Cole and can afford a high price lawyer who can find the smallest technicality

[Martin_1962]

speed limit plus 50%=ban, but i know people do 80 in an 30 and only get 3 points

He's probably called Ashley Cole and can afford a high price lawyer who can find the smallest technicality

He is a idiot of the highest order.

So what got you into trouble if you don't mind saying?

[STMO999]

speed limit plus 50%=ban, but i know people do 80 in an 30 and only get 3 points

He's probably called Ashley Cole and can afford a high price lawyer who can find the smallest technicality

Cheryl said he's only got a small technicality.

[Martin_1962]

60 in a lot of 30s though is not on. I have seen the results of doing 50 throught the village I work in - we got to see the air ambulance, a wrecked Nissan repmobile, a rep in a stretcher and a damaged beer lorry.

[STMO999]

60 in a lot of 30s though is not on. I have seen the results of doing 50 throught the village I work in - we got to see the air ambulance, a wrecked Nissan repmobile, a rep in a stretcher and a damaged beer lorry.

Nothing spilled I hope

[Martin_1962]

60 in a lot of 30s though is not on. I have seen the results of doing 50 throught the village I work in - we got to see the air ambulance, a wrecked Nissan repmobile, a rep in a stretcher and a damaged beer lorry.

Nothing spilled I hope

Don't think so - it was moving from one pub to the other.

[Gaffers]

60 in a lot of 30s though is not on. I have seen the results of doing 50 throught the village I work in - we got to see the air ambulance, a wrecked Nissan repmobile, a rep in a stretcher and a damaged beer lorry.

Nothing spilled I hope

that would be the true tragedy 

[Squealey]

speed limit plus 50%=ban, but i know people do 80 in an 30 and only get 3 points

He's probably called Ashley Cole and can afford a high price lawyer who can find the smallest technicality

He is a thingy of the highest order.

So what got you into trouble if you don't mind saying?

Not at all, spoke about it on here before. I was 19, had a 2.0 Sierra which I had a nasty prang in. Nothing was illegal except my speed, car was tip top, no drink inside me, but I was showing off to my mates like a knob when I lost control on a corner and slammed head on into a quite new mk2 Astra.

10 people in hospital (5 in each car), no life threatening injuries thank god, but they quite rightly threw the book at me for dangerous driving, hence the 3 month sentance, 3 year ban and extended test.

Still see it clear as day and although no one died, you never forget the screams from BOTH cars occupents.

Certainly taught me a very valueable lesson!

[Entwood]

http://www.sentencing-guidelines.gov.uk/docs/magistrates_court_sentencing_guidelines_update.pdf

Page 131 is the definitive document

Note that those guidlines are for a first time offender, pleading guilty in the Magistrates court ... any other circumstances (repeat offender, not guilty plea, transfer to Crown court) will affect the outcome.. ....so page 145 para 2 will be involved as well ...  also page 171

HTH 

[Andy B]

http://www.sentencing-guidelines.gov.uk/docs/magistrates_court_sentencing_guidelines_update.pdf

Page 131 is the definitive document

Note that those guidlines are for a first time offender, pleading guilty in the Magistrates court ... any other circumstances (repeat offender, not guilty plea, transfer to Crown court) will affect the outcome.. ....so page 145 para 2 will be involved as well ...  also page 171

HTH 

Isn't there a precis version? 

[Entwood]

http://www.sentencing-guidelines.gov.uk/docs/magistrates_court_sentencing_guidelines_update.pdf

Page 131 is the definitive document

Note that those guidlines are for a first time offender, pleading guilty in the Magistrates court ... any other circumstances (repeat offender, not guilty plea, transfer to Crown court) will affect the outcome.. ....so page 145 para 2 will be involved as well ...  also page 171

HTH 

Isn't there a precis version? 

In the courts its in 4 volumes !!!  but you just need to scroll to the pages mentioned ...  I've done the work for you ..     

[Andy B]

http://www.sentencing-guidelines.gov.uk/docs/magistrates_court_sentencing_guidelines_update.pdf

Page 131 is the definitive document

Note that those guidlines are for a first time offender, pleading guilty in the Magistrates court ... any other circumstances (repeat offender, not guilty plea, transfer to Crown court) will affect the outcome.. ....so page 145 para 2 will be involved as well ...  also page 171

HTH 

Isn't there a precis version? 

In the courts its in 4 volumes !!!  but you just need to scroll to the pages mentioned ...  I've done the work for you ..     

   
I got to the first pages, noted how far the bar at the side had moved down .... not very ..... then saw 203 pages  :-?   

[Lazydocker]

Before I give my opinion I'll qualify it slightly... I have spent a couple of years of my life clearing up the results of accidents and seen some truly awful sights, as have the serving/retired police on here. That hasn't made me an angel and I would never pretend that I stick to every speed limit I see. But, 30 means 30, 40 means 40 and (generally) 50 means 50! I must confess that the white disk with a black stripe is, in my (wrong) opinion, fair game. I was lucky to get let off with a slapped wrist many years back when I was stopped doing over 100mph... It was the middle of the night and the motorway was virtually deserted. I got stopped 8 months later doing 43 in a 30 (dual carriageway and the limit had changed from 40 to 30 a few weeks earlier) which I accepted as my fault immediately... I learnt a lesson and slowed down!

The character you have described deserves to be banned for the maximum time possible... He got let off once before!