am I getting a fine???

[mchauhan]

was going down the A30 which cross 312. There was the truck which looked like it was about to have load all over my car so went around him and acclereated up 40 -50 ( 40 miles limit) then notice a copper stood along side his full marked up bmw estate - he was standing out out side with a gun which looked like it had two camera lenses in front of it.
Yeap the gun pointing in my direction

Are these capable of taking picture and number plates and sending fines ??

[MEGA]

I think, 50 in a 40 will be a NIP with offered speed awareness course if he got a clear reading. They are definitely capable. Aslong as your license is clear atm then you'll be able to do the course and will be OK. But you might never hear anything.. Who knows..

Fingers crossed for the next 14 days.

[mchauhan]

oh shit !! it not what i need

bolocks - i thought that these guys just pull you over and give you hell and then give a fine
but your saying that they can capture images as well

[MEGA]

I'm not 100% sure if I'm honest but I always believed they could NIP you as well as pull you at the scene.. Let someone else confirm or call me a twat as necessary before you worry too much though dude

[mchauhan]

worried like a mofo at the moment - if my misses finds out - I won't be able to post any mmore - cus I will be dead

[mchauhan]

any one else on this ??

Mega thanks mate - been doing abit of googling and alot of say they have to be mounted on a tripod or some thing ???
this one was defo held in his hand and there was no van as i drove back the opposite way to check, just his 5 series estate

[gie0320]

From my own experiece if they were using the handheld units they would have a back up van or bike waiting further along the road to stop you. I've been past one of these and I know that I was over the limit (slightly) and never heard or got anything because I thought the reason being he was on his own. As mentioned if you dont hear within 14 days then forget about it, worrying too much aint gonna help you really. :)

[zarnd]

Aslong as your license is clear atm then you'll be able to do the course and will be OK. But you might never hear anything.. Who knows..

Fingers crossed for the next 14 days.

Unless it varies from county to county that's not true. I had 6 points and was offered the course

cheers

[mchauhan]

Unless it varies from county to county that's not true. I had 6 points and was offered the course

cheers
you got 6 points for 1 driving offence - how much were u over.


all this so some dumb idiot couldn't put stuff properly on truck

[gaz1234]

worried like a mofo at the moment - if my misses finds out - I won't be able to post any mmore - cus I will be dead
that sounds a bit xtreme

[Black Sabbath]

I'm with George on this one,generally another vehicle waits down the road to pull you and issue ticket.

[mchauhan]

well if my nine life aren't up then i'll be okay - Well that what I thought but then really slowed down if they were going to pull me over - there was no other cop car mate
told my misses - complete opposiste reaction she laughed her head off, to many drugs !!!
oh well - see what happen can't change it now - hopefully they will be nice to me!!!

[Moe]

Bro dont worry about it i thought i nearly got fucked back from the brum meet and i was going a bit, but saw the volvo estate pulled down the road and he didnt follow so mashallah i got away with it.

[zarnd]

you got 6 points for 1 driving offence - how much were u over.


all this so some dumb idiot couldn't put stuff properly on truck

Sorry i should have explained. I already had six points on my licence from two different speeding offences previously. As far as i know they have 14 days to issue you with an NIP from the date of alleged offence. There are ways of getting out of it

www.pepipoo.com

Full of lots of information, i didn't have the bottle to fight my speeding cases so just took the points and paid the insurance premium hike!

cheers and good luck

[MEGA]

I should clarify re speed awareness. They only offer you speed awareness if you've not done it before in the last 3 years I think it is. Thus when I said points on the license already, I assumed that you must have already done the speed awareness already if you've got points as well.. Obviously that was wrong of me because you can get points for many things besides speed or they could have just not offered it to you etc.

ta-dah. :)

On another note, that pepipoo site is a fantastic resource. Shame it has a stupid name.

[J1SUA]

Have you got points already? If not don't worry about it, shit happens. 3 points on your license isn't the end of the world, infact something like 1 in 3 drivers have had 3 points.

It was a Sunday, quiet roads, had my KFC bargain bucket, sun bouncing off the freshly polished car (Red CTR back then) and a smile on my face. Then I got busted doing 34 in a 30 on a 2 lane 'dual carriage way' type road, with a 4x4 burning past me - copper decided to point his gun at me, week later i got the fine! I declared my 3points and paid my £60 fine - no choice of 'driver awareness' back then in my area. Insurance only went up £30 as most companies don't care about 3 too much

[mchauhan]

thanks guys, nah no point - tis clean licence had 3 but there now gone !!
so bit pi$$ed off that i may get another three.
Just been reading about this speed awarness course, hopefully i will get one of those. lets see

[MEGA]

well, hopefully the others are right and you get nothing at all!! :)

[mchauhan]

Mega - I am totally there with hopefully - I will get away with this. Appreciate every ones advice
Do you guys think it worth investing in laser detector??

[MEGA]

imo it just encourages you to speed, thinking your safe. dangerous mentality to get into..

[J1SUA]

Speed detectors are great imo if used correctly, and agreed as MEGA says, not to encourage you to speed and think you are safe .
I try not to speed but it is a fact of life - i think everyone speeds at some point, even by 10% of the limit - heck i was doing 4MPH over the limit and I got busted. Having a loud beep makes me aware that potentially there is a speed camera/van/gatso.
This is also great when I am travelling and in an area I am not familiar with. It has saved me a couple of times, £200 on a detector, or potentially 6 more points.
Hoping you don't get busted, but in hindsight if you had a detector and it beeped you, would you have pulled the manouver?
Down to personally preference, but happy to have mine.

[mchauhan]

Speed detectors are great imo if used correctly, and agreed as MEGA says, not to encourage you to speed and think you are safe .
I try not to speed but it is a fact of life - i think everyone speeds at some point, even by 10% of the limit - heck i was doing 4MPH over the limit and I got busted. Having a loud beep makes me aware that potentially there is a speed camera/van/gatso.
This is also great when I am travelling and in an area I am not familiar with. It has saved me a couple of times, £200 on a detector, or potentially 6 more points.
Hoping you don't get busted, but in hindsight if you had a detector and it beeped you, would you have pulled the manouver?
Down to personally preference, but happy to have mine.

Nope I would have just slowed right down and pissed off a load of drivers behind me, but small price to pay - to not have my smashed my car by window frames falling my car and have me injured and have 3 points. So no I wouldn't have pulled that move at all. I hear what your saying about driving in areas that you don't know - sometime the speed camera's are really well hidden, and are you ever sure that it 40 or 30 in some places
Sit and wait game now.
To be fair if I was speeding on purpose – then I would accept the points and think bad luck – but I actually did it so would not have smashed my m3 up which I only have owned for a month.
Did you guys remember the first day of ownership some idiot in megane almost wrote my car for me.

[MEGA]

Did you guys remember the first day of ownership some idiot in megane almost wrote my car for me.


HAppens to everyone with some car or other to blame.

A week after owning the peugeot, some italian idiot swang out of the left lane and clipped the side of me. I was 18, it was my first car which I'd just paid £5200 for that I'd saved for 18 months, and I was absolutely devastated.

[mchauhan]

yeap know the feeling been saving for over number of years and worked my ass - and the amount of convenicng it taken to get my wife onboard as been monumental.
so hence wasn't about to have some guy cargo total my m3.

[Redge-330ci]

:( Not tryin to get the sympathy vote but i also know how it feels when some one trys to smash ur car.
here goes i have recetntly bin in a car accident on the 2nd of march lady ina 5 series bmw came on to the wrong side of the road and hit me head on i was driving my beloved 106 gti no word of i lie i spelt every peeny i earnt on her (u wouldnt find a scratch,dent on it and engine pfft flawless) i know its not a M3 or £20,000 pound worth of car but when its ya pride and joy can be a bit upseting to say ther least and to make things worse shes denying fault even tho the police have told me and her thats shes at fault so my insurance has gone up and have payed me out a whopping £75 pound for my car when i payed £3000(and it was valued at this on my document) for it and probly spent over £2500 modding it Theres just no justice ;'( Any way the main thing is me and the misses are ok :) i got away with only having two broken arms and the misses a broken finger amazing considering This :
http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/redge89/DSC00417.jpg
http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq186/redge89/DSC00418.jpg
Amazing aint it :S docs said i shouldnt have legs any way i have my new car to play with now the 330ci and will be driving that on the 23rd as my arms will be out of cast by then :)
Thanks for reading this essay if u have an replys to this please reply in my Thread "Newbie :D"
Dont wanna Hijack his Thread any more than i alreaddy have.
Cheers Rich

[mchauhan]

mate - that horride - the fact tht you had to go through that and only got 75 quid - thats what i was trying to avoid the big crash - that the point i've trying to make.
Mate hope you get better or are better - cars we can buy again but life is once only - really, really gald to hear the story. better to hear the story form the horse mouth then not, if you know what I mean !!!


3 days up no word from the police - let hope it stays that way !!!

[Redge-330ci]

Yes mate i am all and well thanks for asking had the cast took off my right arm today :D hopefully get the one off the left arm on the 20th
then first time out in the 330 on the 23rd Gunna be scary i think :S
and yes i know what ya mean.

i asked my mate whos a traffic cop about your little incident he said hand held speed reading devices are used %80 of the time just to see if there is alot of speeding along that certain road a survey if you like, to see if a static speed camera is need there the other 20% of the time you will get pulled over half way down the road were p.c plods mate is waiting. :)

Hope this helps you.

Rich.

[mchauhan]

Good to hear your well mate - you're gonna love the sound it and the (speed)
they are very quick cars.


wow !! that help alot - well gonna sit it out and wait - see what happens - but really glad to hear can drive and take your misses in the 330
could habe been very different

[Redge-330ci]

Good to hear your well mate - you're gonna love the sound it and the (speed)
they are very quick cars.


wow !! that help alot - well gonna sit it out and wait - see what happens - but really glad to hear can drive and take your misses in the 330
could habe been very different

wont ne driveing till after the 3rd of june now :S hospital forgot to book my appointment on the 20th so now its the third i was so exited :(
Now just pissed off :@
Rich.