My friend got caught doing 72 in a 40. Does any1 know how accurate these guns are?

 

Accurate enough for him to start learning how to apply the lube... Or buy a bus pass

 

he was proberly doing 75 then

 

Better get his pushbike ready to use........

 

Erm thats a shitter then. You reckon he can blag 6 points and fine

 

police have nothing better to do m8 but 72 in a 40 asking for it big time

 

Agreed, deserves to get hit for that i'm afraid!

Gun's will be spot on, only loophole he might have is has he seen the calibration (sp) certificate for that day? On the off chance that they haven't got one and the gun wasn't calibrated, he might have a case...

 

pants down job i think mate

might blag it 6 points though


but if hes been driving less than 2 years then its
cycling shorts time though

 

Will ask him to see. He was spanking a brand new 325 executive t%&t that thought he was gods gift though. Plus points for that

 

A number of years back I was caught doing 69mph in a 30zone

Sounds bad I know however when I appeared in court the Judge had local knowledge of the road. A dual carriageway which is reduced to 30mph for short stretch.

"I know the road well son, you wont be doing that speed again in a hurry"

"No Sir Your Hounour I wont!!!"

3points and a Ł90 fine.

I was fortunate!

 

So what you trying to say here? he needs to bend over and take it like a man?

 

very fortunate

i got 5 points discussion between awarding me with either 6 or 3 in court and a 200 quid fine for 55 in a 30.. dual carrageway against a fiesta turbo.. if i hadnt of been infront, then the other chap would have got done with the gun

 

did you know that one of these hand held units, in common use over here, was shown up in a US court, when it shown that one of the court walls was travelling at 4mph....

1. was it a copper or a civilian operator?
2. was it calibrated?
3. was it being used within its recommended guidelines for distance, oncoming trafic, stationary objects etc.

at the end of the day, you were travelling at what may have been an inapropriate speed for the road you were travelling, equally so, it doesnt mean that the circumstances in which you were zapped were within the law.


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I managed an indicated 150mph in a 30 limit once

 

Hope it was accurate and hope he gets hammered.

We all speed, I won't pretend that I don't, but 30mph and 40mph zones are a total no-go for those kinds of speeds.

 

Impressive if it was on 1 wheel

 

That would have been, it was in the cossie

 

If this happened very recently,then your mate needs to get over to Pepipoo.com (go to forums). They are mustard on the defence of stuff like this !! You'll need to register before you can read the forums.

 

we should have a dedicated pepipoo thread, Ive lost count of the number of times Ive posted thier forum addy recently.

 

The guns are accurate enough for the magistrates, you can try re the calibration certificate, trained user etc but to be quite frank we are rather more switched on these days and have heard most loopholes.

Personally, if he was doing these speeds then he should just accept he was caught and take it like a man.

(mind you I have just had eight hours of people moaning when they are being caught speeding, jumping red lights and driving like fools so forgive me if I sound harsh)

 

I've just been flashed the other week for 57 in 50. It was on the end of the m62 which was a 70 and turns into a 50.

 

3 years ago I got caught 66 in a 30. Obviously that sounds really bad, but I was done booting it on a dual carriageway just before a national speed limit sign and the copper was hidden behind a hedge literally 50 yards after the sign.

 

What a Turkey.

He deserves what he gets.

There is a time and a place and low speed zones are not the place.

My next door neighbour was hit by a motorist doing 71 in a 30 and she died instantly.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

got banned for racing on the road didn't you?

hoping he gets hammered is a bit harsh when you don't know where it was or the circumstances.

big difference IMO between a 30 limit and a 40 limit in terms of risk

 

I agree about the 30 bit but not the 40, there's a few roads over here that have been reduced down to 40 rather than 60 for no reason, yet a road which claimed the life of 3 of my mates and a few other unfortunate people gets left as it is

 

Same round here. There was a fatal accident in the 30 section about 2 minutes drive from a 60 limit. The response was to take the 60 limit down to 40, away from the actual area of the crash.

 

Your mates ring in for a long stretch on this one, girl im seeing's a traffic cop and hes quite lucky he hadnt reached twice the limit.

But you plant your foot knowing the risks.

 

I got banned for racing on a DUAL CARRIAGEWAY. That was 5 years ago and I served a 12 month ban for it. Even then I was exceeding the 70mph speed limit by around the same amount as this twat was exceeding the 40mph limit by.

There is a VERY VERY distinct difference between a Dual carriageway and a 30/40mph limited area. 30/40mph restrictions are in towns and villages, where children could be playing etc.

I am not suggesting that it is right to speed on a Dual carriageway, but at least the majority of people are travelling at high speeds. In a residential area, people just aren't prepared for a car to appear travelling at over 70mph.

 

I agree doing that kinda speed in a 30/40 needs to be punished, if he'd hit someone at that speed they wouldn't stand a chance

 

The 40's over here are on straight roads with no pavements and fields either side, it does say when you get off the boat be careful Island roads are different though

 

Interesting, loads of advice but no one admitting to bein a cop!
Ya never know yer luck you might get a sympathetic judge, and if you can cast some doubt on the accuracy of the reading you might be able to reduce the sentence.

 

I still stand by the comment that a 30 and a 40 can be very different in terms of dangers.
if you don't know the road then to pass judgement on attitude and nature of the guy is rather narrowminded.

racing on the roads is dangerous! a local lad got put away for 5 years for it. did you get hammered enough for doing something that could of killed someone?
a dual carriage way through a town can be 40 mph as quite a few round london were at the weekend when I went. There is no real way I could se of pedestrians getting onto the road but its still a 40 for noise, other traffic visibility of traffic entering on the slip road etc.

I'm just trying to highlight that generalising it is bad and kangaroo court sentenencing without knowing any of the situation is blinkered.

 

I tend to agree with the above!

All to easy to jump to extremes and paint a picture in your mind that bare no significance to the circimstances in which the lad was stopped!

40mph limit could just as easily be a dual carrigeway as a built up area.

 

Doing 50 in a 40 maybe, but over 70 you've gotta be joking me if you think that's acceptable what ever the circumstances

 

Deserves to be banged up in my opinion

Drive like a cock and you get treated like one, suprising that isnt it

 

Hey I'm not saying its right, my brother just got caught doing 50 in a 40 and I just told him to accept it and get on with it.

Just trying to point out that 30s and 40s are very different and some 40s are ridiculous

72 in a 40 is excessive though so if I was your mate I wouldn't try and fight it, will make him look even more irresponsible if he does

 

Even that isnt necessarily that daft. There is at least one 40 limit that I know of that you could do 70 on relatively safely at certain times of day. I dont see the point of condemning a guy when none of us know the road or any of the circumstances.

 

I've suggested this idea,elsewhere........
Why not make all speed limits 'advisory' , EXCEPT those around schools (at certain times of day) and near hospitals and in very busy city centres.

What do you think ??
Would stop all this getting done ,just for a 'technical' speeding offence !!

 

Know how you feel, my other half got a 60pound fine and 3 pionts on his licence doing 70 in a 60 limit. Got these as he was trying to avoid an accident on the A16 to Skeggy.

 

Well put christian fallen foul nof that one myself and got in big rouble a long time ago on a faster road, i always say theres a time and a place for it, a 30 isnt it.