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[rick.spi]

Speed limits a speed limit no matter what age you are... Send it off itl be 3 points and a 60 quid fine... Then it's the end of it.

[nibzy]

You can get a fixed penalty for 1mph over the limit, the prosecution threshold is only guidance and it's upto individual forces to decide their policy, also the guidance is table based, on speed, as I understand which isn't as simple as the 10% + 3 rule or whatever the mith is.

[Deathrow]

As someone already stated, http://www.pepipoo.com/ is a great website for this sort of thing, if there is something you can do to avoid getting points/fine, they know about it. However it sounds cut and dry with your case.

[M J W J]

The 10% +x mph differs from county to county and is at the discretion of who ever issues the ticket. They can still prosecute for being 1 mph over the speed limit even if they usually allow 10%.

I know that Shropshire usually allows 10% +2 mph and Nottinghamshire allows 10% +6 mph. The worst has to be Staffordshire's 0 tolerance of speeding. Wales and Scotland are the same. My dad was unlucky enough to be given 3 points and a £60 fine for doing 31 in a 30 zone in Stafford.

Tell them it was you driving and accept the points and fine. They won't offer you the speed awareness course as you need to have been driving for 2 years. Unfortunately it will put up you insurance as you are an inexperienced driver. You must also inform your insurance as soon as you have been issued the points as if you don't it will invalidate you insurance.

[Scallywag630]

You can get a fixed penalty for 1mph over the limit, the prosecution threshold is only guidance and it's upto individual forces to decide their policy, also the guidance is table based, on speed, as I understand which isn't as simple as the 10% + 3 rule or whatever the mith is.

I don't know if the law has changed, but the Construction and Use regs used to state that a vehicle had to be equipped with a speedometer that was accurate to +/- 10%. Therefore, no speeding offense was pursued by the police within 10%.

[SolarB]

I don't know if the law has changed, but the Construction and Use regs used to state that a vehicle had to be equipped with a speedometer that was accurate to +/- 10%. Therefore, no speeding offense was pursued by the police within 10%.

The 10% allowance is for the speedometer, not the speed the vehicle is travelling at. You cannot be prosecuted for an inaccurate speedometer if it is better than 10% accurate. Generally the police give us a 10% allowance and then a little on top, but they don't have to.

[daveholman]

As everyone says the 10% thing varies, my mate got done doing 32 in a 30 slowing down out of a national speed limit zone.

The photograph should be available when you recieve the letter detailing your next option. It'll tell you the website and give you a unique reference number, be warned though, they're not very clear, particularly if it's dark, my mum was done for jumping a red light early one morning and you couldn't really see the car just the number plate shining in the dark, it made it impossible to tell who was driving as there was some confusion as to whether it was her or my dad.

The course offer is wierd, I've done it and was offered it first time I got done but I know people that have been offered it after their second or third offence and people who haven't been offered it at all. I think they just randomly select people. What's interesting about it is that when I did it there were 11 people on it, 8 had been done doing 38 in a 30 and one of the others had been done doing 48 in a 40 (the other two were truck drivers, dunno what their speeds were), now either they're very selective about who they pick or there was something fishy going on.

At the end of the day, you can argue it all you want but if they have a picture which says that you were doing 34 in a 30 then you haven't really got a leg to stand on, regardless of whether you were actually doing it or not.

You'd be better off taking the hit and learning a lesson from it.