GTI cause me my first speeding ticket for donkey years

[herbie911]

Just driving along a dual carriageway and got done by a local plod with a handheld speedgun hiding behind some park cars.
You are driving dangerously fast!
I said what speed?
The reply is 41mph with a look of disgust on his face!
Not got done since my teenage years and I had not prang my car for ten years plus. I drive so cautiously that some of my friend says I am boring!
You guys and gals can imagine how upset I am!
The GTI is just too refined for its speed. Didn't even realised I was at that speed just seconds after coming out of a junction!
 

[Steve30]

I would have said to him see you court , if he was hiding behind bushes, He needs to be visable ? 

Dont accept the fine or the points take it to court , I did and won

[am1w]

Steve is 100% on the button. Did you see him and was he clearly visible?
Go back to where you were and check.
What was the speed limit?
Sometimes it is jealousy that prompts them to do this.
It is not a very nice feeling when this happens.

[herbie911]

Thanks Guys!
I was  laughing at my 61 year old mum when she got her first three points in thirty years! (She drove a Mk5 Gti-currently Mk6)  Again, I cannot remember the last time she had an accident!
I just feel harddone by a society who keep blaming speeding is the only cause of our 3000 deaths each year!
Most people who got fine are those with 60% NCB and already paying half their income to our pathetic Treasury!

[am1w]

Thanks Guys!
I was  laughing at my 61 year old mum when she got her first three points in thirty years! (She drove a Mk5 Gti-currently Mk6)  Again, I cannot remember the last time she had an accident!
I just feel harddone by a society who keep blaming speeding is the only cause of our 3000 deaths each year!
Most people who got fine are those with 60% NCB and already paying half their income to our pathetic Treasury!

+1

[p3asa]

Dont accept the fine or the points take it to court , I did and won

Steve, how did you manage to prove that? Are they not always in 2's?
Do you know what you would have had to pay in costs if you had lost?

[Hartside]

At 41mph measured you must have had an indicated 45mph on the speedo. What was the speed limit, 30mph? It's a bummer alright, but if it was me I'd be saying "fair enough" through extremely gritted teeth. No chance of being able to do the speed awareness course is there?

If he's doing you for 41mph in a 40mph zone then that's one to contest/go to court for!

[jonnygo]

dual carriageway is 70mph isn't it? officer?

Anyway I was "hossing" it back from Scotland on an east coast route just south of Berwick in June.

I was in my dads Saab and there was a police car hidden in the central reservation behind a road sign.  I couldn't see a thing until I watched this copper lean right out with a speed gun pointed right at my number plate.  There was no way he couldn't have registered my speed. 

I never heard a thing despite bracing myself for a letter.

Was it because he was hidden?

[herbie911]

It is a a 30mph zone. The dual carriage before the junction is 40mph.  :embarassed: Just check my ticket, that lazy officer didn't even bother to put my speed down-just the 618 code which I got no idea how many points I am going to get!
Not been a victim of a speeding ticket for more than a decade. Just want to let it out of my chest in a forum!
Sorry for any BRAKE members here!



Despite all this trouble my GTI cause me, I still love it and will probably remap it after my 1st service as planned

[Adam]

You were speeding simple. Take the punishment no need to make a fuss about it is there.