yay! It appears that i got away with it

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Wed Jan 20, 16 3:29 pm

In June I did 100mph on the M25...didn't mean to, its a bloody Audi they just do that and quietly when you are not looking.

I was driving away from under taking loons and became a loony myself

NIP arrived, I'm not a politician or a footballer so I said YES I was the driver

heard nothing so I emailed in October and asked did you get my form?
when are you going to serve the court with papers? I don't want to be fined for not turning up in court...a date would be great so I can plan a day off and transport because obviously I can't drive there?...anything you can do to assist me in planning for the inevitable gratefully accepted, blaa, blaa, blaa, you are a lovely woman etc

got a response saying if you don't get a summons in the next 2 weeks let us know.

so I didn't and I didn't
don't want to mug myself off twice do I?

6 months past on 28 December from day of the incident

6 months past on the 12th of Jan since they must have had my NIP form

so today with a week or so just to make sure I enquired about my day in court

response

I can find no record of us having laid summons papers with the court
consider the matter closed.......

6 months of worry
could have been 6 points and up to £2500 or a Ban i.e very much to worry about when insurance for the next 3-4 years is taken into account

a weight off my shoulders indeed

I didn't think we employed the mind/waiting games associated with death row in the UK but it appears we do.

YeeeeeeeHaaaaaa

tonight I might even drive home at 71 MPH

I'm hoping my enquiry in October resulted in my paperwork being left on top of a filing cabinet somewhere... but chances are the system is just so full of hapless fools like myself that they are concentrating on something else

I might move to Kent they seem most accommodating folk

and to top it off I am now probably a safer driver in the eyes of the Law

although previously I rarely used my brakes, forward planning, 1000 yard stare, driving into space not stamping on my brakes because the guy in front did, because I can see what the guys in front of him are doing.

I'm now a bit of a see camera and stamp regardless of speed or speeding, kinda guy.

so I will probably cause more accidents....but screw them if they can't stop fast enough that's their fault, shouldn't be driving so close.

previously your attention would not have been drawn by much anything I did on the Motorway.
I would have drifted past at 70-80 with little impact on your life.

You will now all hate me, because I'm just like a golfer with the jitters, my foot is ready to STAMP ON THE BRAKES whenever I see anything yellow or indeed at an angle off the side of a gantry painted the same colour as the sky

and I spend my life overtaking trucks stuck at 57 MPH
getting stuck behind middle lane hogs at 60 MPH whilst being overtaken by coaches flying down the outside at 70
Then bouncing out into the outside lane
then swinging back in across two lanes of traffic to take up my rightful place in the dips worn into inside lane at 69.5 mph (gps not speedo)

prior to my experience I drove home at about 80 in the outside lane pulling to one side if Mr Big Balls and full beam needed to get past

now I execute lane changes almost constantly varying my speed from 40 MPH to 70 MPH and back over and over again.

I'm using more fuel
I may therefore be emitting more pollutants
but I'm not speeding

I'll happily admit I did wrong but I can't help feeling something is wrong.

Dave

Cannonball · Post by **Cannonball** » Wed Jan 20, 16 4:03 pm

well done dave,,,,,

they did not forget me having a big turd of a yank that i bought trailored home but did not declare sorn and no insurance showing for it bas stard s i sent a letter stating the car was trailored hom taken straight to a garage for mot work the vehicle has never touched the road in my ownership = so what your up court guilty ba s bas tar ds

andyrob · Post by **andyrob** » Wed Jan 20, 16 8:37 pm

good stuff Dave, I too have manage to elude prosecution a few times more than I derserve............ Ive just signed my own licence loss

Duncan, I tape up the the number plates on towed cars, ive had similar, dont know if you remember I got rolling road blocked by several police cars in my ram towing a trailer with a corsa on it that had been involved in a serious crime and merseyside police had forgot to update there computer........

GJUK · Post by **GJUK** » Wed Jan 20, 16 11:27 pm

Glad to hear it!

cadboy · Post by **cadboy** » Thu Jan 21, 16 6:58 am

Always good to get away with it (lucky).

drewcrane · Post by **drewcrane** » Thu Jan 21, 16 7:20 am

I would be scared to death the back lash of just pure luck. did ya but a lottery ticket?? I would

I guess you could say ya em owe one, next time

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Thu Jan 21, 16 8:08 am

Shortage of staff probably played into your hands for once, seems like no where has enough staff to do a proper job of anything these days...

The local speed cameras around here have either been removed or turned off due to no finances to run the operation. I guess when speed cameras have been in the same place for many years, they cease to generate much income.

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Thu Jan 21, 16 11:20 am

its bizzare

if id been doing 95 or 99 I would have had a fixed penalty and job done

Christmas party fund increased by a few crates of larger

if I could only play the lottery.....one of the perks of the job is not being able to play

Dave

Dave81 · Post by **Dave81** » Thu Jan 21, 16 12:58 pm

Did you write a long winded reason for the speeding Dave?

Just wondering if you got technical like you do on here.
That completely flummoxed them and they binned it..........

GJUK · Post by **GJUK** » Thu Jan 21, 16 5:53 pm

Dave81 wrote: Just wondering if you got technical like you do on here.
That completely flummoxed them

That is how I feel after reading most of Dave's technical posts!

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Fri Jan 22, 16 12:53 pm

Watch out for Karma Dave.

Many years ago, when I was young and foolish, I was doing... ahem... "motorway" speeds in my 66 Mustang through an industrial estate in the early hours of the morning. Copper jumped out from behind a parked car with a Gatso, I stamped on the brakes, locking all 4 tyres and creating a cloud of smoke. He pulled me over to tell me he clocked me at 42mph, which I was happy with, since it should have been double that. He gave me a warning and sent me on my way without a ticket. Result!

A few weeks later I got done in my Satellite for 34mph on a 30mph dual carriageway. I figured I deserved it.