Speeding Ticket?
The most common instance where Notice is served is an NIP for speeding. There is an NIP time limit that applies of 14 days from the offence. However, how this is calculated will depend on how the notice is given. Don't wait until it's too late. Call Motor Defence Solicitors now, on 0800 2800 912, for a fixed fee consultation with a specialist solicitor.
A summons, for offences such as speeding, careless driving, drink driving etc...is issued in the Magistrates' Court, although the case may then be transferred to the Crown Court.
Your driving fell below that expected of a competent driver or driving a vehicle on a road or in any public place dangerously or in a dangerous condition
Being in charge of a vehicle when unfit due to drink or drugs
Where an individual deliberately withholds or provides misleading information
Speed Camera Devices
Systems used in the UK are generally type approved and require regular calibration. You are likely to come across the following types: Cameras, Laser, Radar, Stopwatch, Video. Some of the more common devices used include the Gatso, LTI2020, Vascar, Truevelo. For more detailed information on the individual devices, please click here
The Police can stop you by the road if they suspect an offence has occured. You will usually be given a Fixed Penalty Notice (NIP), HORT1 Producer or depending on the offence, be arrested and taken to a Police Station. Typical offences within this scenario include:
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Now all we need to know is which ones are the ones not working. Then we can get on with the business of driving rather than spending too much of our time looking for cameras, watching the speedometer, braking to forty in a sixty zone because the driver in front has seen ‘a caaammmeeerrraaa’! and has braked hard because (presumably) he/she has no idea of the speed at which he/she is travelling. To my mind anything that can distract a driver is dangerous, I don’t like passengers talking to me when I am travelling over about fifty mph, I won’t use a car phone and rarely put the radio on (if I do it is for traffic updates only) – what say you?
Ken Lines.