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Foxy wrote:

Guest wrote:

Foxy wrote:Thanks, although it didn't occur to me that they might see it as an advantage. Perhaps I'd better read the small print on my policy.

It's really simple. All you have to do is not go above the speed limit. After all if you are driving in a built up area, all you are doing is driving in a relatively responsible way

The area I was clocked speeding is not somewhere I often drive but I do know at one point it was 40 mph. Since then I have found out it was changed about 18 months ago. Now, I'm not claiming that at the time I was consciously thinking about whether it was 30 or 40, but it was a road approaching into town where at some points it is 30 and at others it's 40. I remember from years ago when I was taking driving lessons that my instructor pointed out that it was 40 mph and that when I took my test I should increase my speed to over 30 mph to demonstrate to the examiner that I was aware. It's not helpful when the powers-that-be change the goalposts and I think that they deliberately watch out for speeding in these areas which is both unfair and immoral. Parts of that road are 40 mph yet there are still houses on either side of the road so your comment comes across as rather smug.

Guest wrote:

Foxy wrote:Thanks, although it didn't occur to me that they might see it as an advantage. Perhaps I'd better read the small print on my policy.

It's really simple. All you have to do is not go above the speed limit. After all if you are driving in a built up area, all you are doing is driving in a relatively responsible way

Guest wrote:

Stooo wrote:

Guest wrote:

Stooo wrote:

Guest wrote:
It's really simple. All you have to do is not go above the speed limit. After all if you are driving in a built up area, all you are doing is driving in a relatively responsible way

That's kind of the point , genius...

The majority of the people in the course that I was on were around my age, complacency sets in and a reality check is better than a road death. It's a 50/50 chance at 35.

Well plug face, no need to be so rude. I think we agreed that all you needed to do was to slow down, and then there would be no charges

You missed my point about complacency

Plug face, WTF?

Driving in a reasonable fashion is really not very hard. If you choose to be complacent, then you are choosing to be a complete dick head. Clearly any moron between here and I want to shove my head in an electrical cheese grater can see that.

Stooo wrote:

Guest wrote:

Stooo wrote:

Guest wrote:
It's really simple. All you have to do is not go above the speed limit. After all if you are driving in a built up area, all you are doing is driving in a relatively responsible way

That's kind of the point , genius...

The majority of the people in the course that I was on were around my age, complacency sets in and a reality check is better than a road death. It's a 50/50 chance at 35.

Well plug face, no need to be so rude. I think we agreed that all you needed to do was to slow down, and then there would be no charges

You missed my point about complacency

Plug face, WTF?

Guest wrote:

Stooo wrote:

Guest wrote:

Foxy wrote:Thanks, although it didn't occur to me that they might see it as an advantage. Perhaps I'd better read the small print on my policy.

It's really simple. All you have to do is not go above the speed limit. After all if you are driving in a built up area, all you are doing is driving in a relatively responsible way

That's kind of the point , genius...

The majority of the people in the course that I was on were around my age, complacency sets in and a reality check is better than a road death. It's a 50/50 chance at 35.

Well plug face, no need to be so rude. I think we agreed that all you needed to do was to slow down, and then there would be no charges

Stooo wrote:

Guest wrote:

Foxy wrote:Thanks, although it didn't occur to me that they might see it as an advantage. Perhaps I'd better read the small print on my policy.

It's really simple. All you have to do is not go above the speed limit. After all if you are driving in a built up area, all you are doing is driving in a relatively responsible way

That's kind of the point , genius...

The majority of the people in the course that I was on were around my age, complacency sets in and a reality check is better than a road death. It's a 50/50 chance at 35.

Guest wrote:

Foxy wrote:Thanks, although it didn't occur to me that they might see it as an advantage. Perhaps I'd better read the small print on my policy.

It's really simple. All you have to do is not go above the speed limit. After all if you are driving in a built up area, all you are doing is driving in a relatively responsible way

Foxy wrote:Thanks, although it didn't occur to me that they might see it as an advantage. Perhaps I'd better read the small print on my policy.

Foxy wrote:Thanks, although it didn't occur to me that they might see it as an advantage. Perhaps I'd better read the small print on my policy.

Foxy wrote:

Trapper John wrote:

Foxy wrote:I've got to go on a Speed Awareness course next week as I got caught doing 38 mph in a 30 mpg area. Fair cop, I shouldn't have been doing it but asking around, it seems loads of people are getting them at the moment. Are the police short of funds?

In short, yes ...... since the government stopped funding the upkeep of speed cameras, they have to make it up elsewhere, so there's been a huge increase in police speed traps.

How much is yours costing? ....... when I got done about 10 years ago in the Limehouse Link it was a fairly new option, it cost me £90.00 and half a day of my time, a bargain considering the fine would have been £60.00 and three points on my licence.

BTW, you only get offered the speed awareness course if you haven't committed a speeding offence in the previous three years.

My course is also costing £90 for 1/2 day, but the alternative would have been £100 + 3 points, so cheaper for me plus no points. Had I been going faster I wouldn't have had the option of doing the course. No idea if I have to inform my insurance company but I'll ask next week, unless anyone here knows ???

Foxy wrote:

Trapper John wrote:

Foxy wrote:I've got to go on a Speed Awareness course next week as I got caught doing 38 mph in a 30 mpg area. Fair cop, I shouldn't have been doing it but asking around, it seems loads of people are getting them at the moment. Are the police short of funds?

In short, yes ...... since the government stopped funding the upkeep of speed cameras, they have to make it up elsewhere, so there's been a huge increase in police speed traps.

How much is yours costing? ....... when I got done about 10 years ago in the Limehouse Link it was a fairly new option, it cost me £90.00 and half a day of my time, a bargain considering the fine would have been £60.00 and three points on my licence.

BTW, you only get offered the speed awareness course if you haven't committed a speeding offence in the previous three years.

My course is also costing £90 for 1/2 day, but the alternative would have been £100 + 3 points, so cheaper for me plus no points. Had I been going faster I wouldn't have had the option of doing the course. No idea if I have to inform my insurance company but I'll ask next week, unless anyone here knows ???

Trapper John wrote:

Foxy wrote:I've got to go on a Speed Awareness course next week as I got caught doing 38 mph in a 30 mpg area. Fair cop, I shouldn't have been doing it but asking around, it seems loads of people are getting them at the moment. Are the police short of funds?

In short, yes ...... since the government stopped funding the upkeep of speed cameras, they have to make it up elsewhere, so there's been a huge increase in police speed traps.

How much is yours costing? ....... when I got done about 10 years ago in the Limehouse Link it was a fairly new option, it cost me £90.00 and half a day of my time, a bargain considering the fine would have been £60.00 and three points on my licence.

BTW, you only get offered the speed awareness course if you haven't committed a speeding offence in the previous three years.