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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I would suggest that pedestrian mortality would escalate more than somewhat, they are bad enough when there are pavements. Seriously I think they should repeat the trials carried out in the Nederlands where as an experiment, in one town, they removed all the road signs and road markings, to extremely good effect, by putting the responsibility for safe progress fairly and squarely on the driver/rider. Also, while they are at it, let them remove the masses of unnecessary road signs that proliferate at every opportunity. Licence cyclists. Make all traffic lights Amber after 10 p.m until, say, six a.m with the rule ‘Stop before entry and cross at own discretion.’ (Nothing worse than sitting on a ‘bike waiting for a car to arrive to trigger the sensors in the road.) Re-examine all speed limits and set them to the 95 percentile of actual current day to day traffic speed. (This should have the effect of reducing the amount of dangerous ‘frustration’ overtaking.) Do away with cash generator cameras/radar traps and return to good solid policing by motorised traffic cops of the old school (They used common sense and were not motivated by ‘ticket targets’.) And is it not time they put similar restrictions on new car drivers to those placed on new motorcycle riders.
Ken Lines.
I completely agree with Ken Lines above. Drivers should take responsibility for their driving instead of leaving it to the authorities to think for us. When I took my car test many moons ago driving used to be a pleasure but now it is downright boring (which is why I have taken to riding a motorcycle).
Thanks, Suzi. As a bit of a Libertarian it is nice to find that, occasionally, someone agrees with me.
Ken.