I got nicked for speeding recently and was offered a speed awareness course, as an alternative to getting points. I agreed and went to a seminar in Preston Road this morning. On arrival, I met a bloke in the car park and we had a chat while figuring where the hell we were supposed to be going. While signing in and handing over our driving licenses, I noticed his home address was The Training Centre, Millhouse Woods Lane, Cottingham. Turned out that he runs(and lives at), our training ground. Considering there were only twenty of us, it was quite a fluke that I happened to meet him there, even more so, as a mate of mine who's a City youth scout(and Beverley landlord) was also on the course. The City conversations at least relieved the tedium of the day.
Must be. Though I only got nicked for 35 in a 30 and I don't actually think I was speeding at all. Got nicked doing 95 on the way back from Birmngham away too, I'm not having a good month.
I got caught doing 35 in a 30 once by a camera. Michael Schumacher would struggle to work the brakes as well as I did that day, top stuff
OLM. You have a pending awareness course and you get done for 25 over the limit...that obviously made an impact. You should have gone down the hard shoulder and pretended you had the "tom tits" like SAF did. Was your car still there after the course?
As I was not quilty in the first instance, I felt the need to get my money's worth in the second. It didn't occur to me to claim a medical condition, I'll save it for next time(though it might help if I'm appointed Man United manager ahead of my next conviction). My car was still there after the course, though the fact that it's held at the back of a police station probably helped(and I actually used to live just round the corner).
I found my speed awareness course most educational actually. If it taught me anything, it taught me how to get away with speeding rather than why you shouldn't. I now know where it's legally possible to have either fixed or mobile speed traps, where they're likely to be, how to spot them, and how to tell the difference between speed traps, anpr or traffic control. I even demonstrated my new speeding skills when pulling out the car park in my noisy boy racered up Astra I had. I haven't been caught speeding once since, so the course was definitely worth while. Was yours along the same lines?
No, I was in my Vauxhaul Corsa Twin Turbo Fanny Magnet(with twin dustbin exhausts and a stereo with more power than the engine).
Has anyone ever been done by the average speed cameras on motorways? Coming back from Manc t'other week, around the Leeds area where there are eternal roadworks, the speed limit was 50 for long stretches, but the traffic was light. So clearly I sped up, and then noticed the average speed signs and cameras. Nothing in the post so far...
I did one on Preston Road last year, it was run by this utter dickhead Who also it turned out was on a reality tv show on humberside police. I think he was called Constable (name not rank). Was it the same fella OLM? It was very David Brent!
The bloke was very David Brent, he introduced himself as Tim, so I've no idea of his surname. The driving instructor woman they had was rather wooden too(and she said 'you know what I mean', at the end of every sentence).
Party, I have heard (but cannot confirm whether true or not) that on the M62 roadworks they are/were raking in thousands of quid each month in speeding fines, which is why they are not rushing the repair work. As to speed awareness courses, the one I went in was more like an IAM lesson so was quite educational. On the course was a client who owed my firm a lot of money too so managed to have a little chat with him in the car park. The frightening thing about the course was how little some of the other attendees knew about the Highway Code, and driving in general. When asked what a blue circular sign with 20 written in it was, the guy sat next to me said "maximum speed 30mph".
Apparently, the average speed camera's are set to nick anyone who averages over 57 mph between two camera's and they do issue plenty of fines.
