How many points on your licence?

cruxiform

markblack said:

I drive in London - what is this speeding thing you talk about?

The place is now full of 20mph signs - not sure they can nice you for going over it - I think it's still a 30. If you stick to the 20 people cycle past you.

That's true...and where it happened. Near Brixton. I've looked at my helmet camera video and I just can't understand why I did it. I was doing less than 30mph, focused on the yellow camera on the left and then rode straight through. As I said earlier though, no excuses but my mind was totally elsewhere. But that's for another thread...

Fretwired

None. The most is 3 for speeding on the M40.

CHRISB50

Zilch, but I had to do a speed awareness course last year.

snakemanStoo

None, but scored a speed awareness course a few years ago.  It was so dull I'm doing everything I can to avoid another one.

professorben

mike_l said:

Tavernor said:

0 at the moment, got snapped by a mobile unit doing 39 in a 30 but did a speed awareness course. Oddly enough it was in a Citroen Picasso I'd borrowed rather than the quasi sports car I normally drove.

Out curiosity, and I'm not trying to hijack the thread (if anyone knows the answer it'll only be a sentence worth of a reply), if there are average speed cameras over a 10 mile stretch at intervals of 1 mile, are the only cameras which matter the first and last one you drive past? If not, then can you theoretically amass several tickets over the said 10 mile stretch? Always wondered.

Each time a camera takes your pic can be classed as a separate offence.

I recall a woman got photo'd 4 times on Newmarket road in Cambridge, believing the road was a 40 and she lost her licence. It was a long time ago, so I could has misremembered.

And, I'm currently at nil points, I had 3 points for speeding (the 40 sign was under an overgrown tree), the copper who did me had the piss relentlessly ripped out of him, I suppose it was a change from Mr Angry. Anyway, I got rid of those points and fuck me I got a ticket (via a camera) in a company van doing 76 in a 60 coming out of Northampton.

That road in Cambridge got me too, did the course, paid the money. 

0 points and a much better understanding of road safety. 

Worth it. 

Sesh

None. Some good fortune involved there. I do wonder if my number plate has ever been read incorrectly by the automatic recognition systems. When I use car parks that use it they often misread one of the letters. 

Nikko

None! Im a good boy...

Forgot to mention, I did have enough about 17 years ago to earn me a 1 year ban, but I don't talk about that

strtdv

0 at the moment. Had 3 about 6 years ago for overtaking an unmarked police car on the motorway at 92mph at 1am. Irritating, but I had been doing 118mph further down the road so guess I got lucky.

axisus

0 in about 30 years. Been caught by speed cameras 3 times, but nothing came of any of them!

Mrs A 3 points for speeding (drives like a man!)
Mother in law 9 points - three times through red lights!

FX_Munkee

Paging @Emp_Fab , would a Mr @Emp_Fab please come to the thread please.

joneve

had 3 not long after I'd started driving - Mobile Camera Van outside QMC in Nottingham, little cunts. 

None since then *touches wood*

speshul91

digitalscream said:

None, but then...it's only been a couple of months.

Starting to get a bit pissed off with people on the road, though - I stick religiously to the speed limit (given that 6 points = disqualification for the first two years), and I've constantly got assholes tailgating me. Perhaps it's the car...if I was driving an Aygo, I probably wouldn't get so much attitude.

0 points here, i have got a black box fitted though, i get twats right up my arse all the time, usually i just lift off a bit and slow down more until they get the hint. 

Lestratcaster

0 in 14 years of driving.

Telejester

Passed driving test first go in 1986, never had a point on licence

richardhomer

sweepy said:

0 in 36 years and I don't hang about, a lot is down to observation and a little slice of luck 

I agree about observation - 34 years on endorsement-free driving here....

Bidley

CHRISB50 said:

Zilch, but I had to do a speed awareness course last year.

Exactly this.

Got caught doing 57 in a 50. On an unoccupied, perfectly straight country road.

Tavernor

Only slightly related but one of my favourite statements is that I've never crashed a car - by accident (true fact), especially if I'm giving a lift to someone I don't know to well. Harps back to possibly the manliest day of my life which is a good story but for another time. When I was new to RWD and a lot younger I did follow that with spinning a car on a roundabout though. Was with another manager allbeit from another department. He never asked for another!

ronnyb

Legionreturns said:

I've got none, but mrs returns currently has 9... So I wouldn't be surprised if I ended up mysteriously owning up to a speeding in her car at some point in the next 2 years. That'll be worth some serious brownie points  

Brownie points? Remember the MP Chris Huhne. His wife Vicky took his points and they got found out and charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Both got 8 months jail.

jonnyburgo

FX_Munkee said:

Paging @Emp_Fab , would a Mr @Emp_Fab please come to the thread please.

All miscarriages of justice your honour

digitalscream

Bidley said:

CHRISB50 said:

Zilch, but I had to do a speed awareness course last year.

Exactly this.

Got caught doing 57 in a 50. On an unoccupied, perfectly straight country road.

OK, so I'm a new driver, but this comes up often (several times in this thread already), and it always confuses me a bit. We all know that speed limits don't change when the road's empty (OK, motorways aside), and we all know that people can easily just appear from being a car or hedge, so...why does this always get mentioned when someone's caught speeding?