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
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
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If you got your full driving licence less than 2 years ago you are on the verge of revocation and re-test. Insurance premiums start to rise.
One more slip and your driving licence is gone. You could face a 6 month driving disqualification
You are looking at a 6 month driving ban unless you come up with a convincing argument at Court.
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:
Brake has criticised the Government’s proposed 80mph speed limit on motorways as ‘selfish’ and ‘out of touch’
Brake added that the proposals would mean that drivers will have less time to react to incidents and that the aim of reducing carbon emissions would be lost as higher speeds mean more energy used. They further backed up the dangers of higher speed fatal accidents on motorways with statistics.
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Here we go again. BRAKE, another nanny-state product trying to tell us how to run our lives.
It is BRAKE who are out of touch. Modern cars are far more sophisticated, have better steering, better brakes and for more efficient engines than anyone could have imagined when the 70 mph NSL was introduced. If they really think that raising the speed limit on Motorways is going to send us all to hell in a ball of fire they should go and sit by a Motorway and check the average speed of modern traffic. My estimate is that they would find the 85th percentile of motorway traffic speed is around the 80 – 85 mph mark. I regularly go ‘Down South’ from Lincolnshire – a near 400 mile round trip in a day – so I do know what I am saying. As for the dreaded ‘Carbon Emissions’, get real BRAKE, the amount of CE produced by traffic in the UK compared with industry and the rest of the world is miniscule. Ye deities and small marine organisms, they will be telling us that Wind Farms are effective next!
Ken Lines.
Brake are talking rubbish as the average speed on motorways now is 80mph, so there will be no increase in anything – just a lot less money for the revenue collection brigade (sorry, I meant safety camera muggers).