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 am not a smoker but I believe this is a step too far. Any smoker I know opens the window before they smoke after asking if the passengers mind. Anyway, if it is the smoker’s car and they are the only one using it why shouldn’t they smoke?
As an ex-smoker I agree, to some extent, with the policy that smoking should be banned in public areas, especially where food is concerned although I have no objection to special ‘Smoking Allowed’ areas. Until I gave up smoking (purely by choice – nothing to do with health/health & safety even though I was a forty to a hundred a day smoker), I did not realise just how offensive the smell of stale tobacco smoke could be. I simply stopped because I wanted to, s’easy.
It took a fair while for my sense of smell to return fully and I (and I assume most other non-smokers) can now smell a smoker, even if they are not actually smoking, from some distance if I am walking behind them. The smell borders on disgusting but it is, and should be, their choice whether or not they smoke.
In the confines of one’s own private areas, house, garden, car or whatever, I think it should to be up to personal choice. The ‘Nanny’ State is already far too intrusive in our everyday lives and seems to be overrun with wierdos who think that they, and only they, know what is best for us.
I would hazard a guess that the most dangerous aspect of smoking in a car is when a lighted cigarette is dropped either in one’s lap or between one’s legs. The resultant distraction from the road ahead is where the biggest danger lies.
Ken Lines.
The one thing that everyone is forgetting about the smoker in the car is the ashtray is about 25,000 miles in dia.The local mobile cleaners do help though ie:THE BIKER BEHIND WEARING HIS NON FIRE RETARDENT HI VIZ GARMENT.Should have gone to specsavers or local eye infermary so the stubend can be removed as its important to KEEP BRITAIN TIDY.