Police van camera. I despair, what does this mean?

DH got a ticket for doing 33 in a 30 zone - road drops quite sharply from 50 to 30 to enter a village and he got caught by a mobile unit. He got offered a speed course or taking the 3 points. He did the course.

We had a road change from 50 to 20!

Don’t worry it happens I also felt awful accidentally did 45 in a 30 ( dual carriageway with roadworks) £60 fine and 3 points ( tge points did not affect insurance premium xx

3 points and £100 fine. If you have no points already, you may be able to pay the £100 fine for a speed awareness course and keep the points.

Oh nooooooo.

Although. It has been 3 weeks (on Friday) since I did 36-37mph on a road I thought was 40mph.(But it was 30mph!)

It had been 40mph since the road was created 30 years ago. I didn't see the new '30' sign at the start, and only saw another '30' sign part way down the road. A few seconds after I went past the policeman with the speed gun... I live in another town and rarely go down this road, so didn't know the speed had dropped from 40 to 30.

Should I have had a speeding ticket/letter by now?

Yes, my speedo is calibrated to make it look as if I'm going 3-4mph faster than I actually am. It is NOT a myth. 🙄(Like the 'common law wife' having the same rights as an actual wife' myth!)

And covered in trees, massive gaps between signs and sometimes no other cars / people on the road. The police have their money making spots when they want their quota though.

Here in Wales speeds seem to get changed on a bi-weekly basis , it really is hard to keep up ( and the signage is tiny)

Easier said than done but don't stress.few points and a small fine I imagine. It's done now... we are all human and it's sounds like you've learnt your lesson already.

Non of us are perfect on here, don't think anyone has stated that?

I never said driving without due care and attention was due to the speeding offence.

Pleased about your driving experience and passing a test.

Never mentioned missing the odd speed limit makes someone a terrible driver.

Have a wonderful day.

To the OP, don't stress about it :)

Loving all the perfect drivers. The ones who fully concentrate on everything, every time they get behind the wheel, particularly on routes they travel every single day.

someone could have died yes. But they didn’t. Nobody is suggesting it is absolutely fine what OP did, she made a mistake, she doesn’t need to be hung, drawn and quartered for it. I’m sure if you had asked her previously would she knowingly drive 50 in a 30 zone, she would have said no.

Driving without due care and attention, @dadtoateen if you are going to bandy about legal driving offences, probably best to know what you are talking about. That specific offence doesn’t cover simply not noticing a speed limit change.

I’m a driver with 35 years’ experience. I passed the IAM Advanced test and have to do driving assessments with my work. I have never had nor cause an accident and beyond a few motorway speeding tickets over the decades, have a clean driving licence. Can I say I am absolutely, 100% paying full attention to everything, every time I drive? Of course not, because I am human. They changed the speed limit on the road I drive in to work from 50 to 30 a few weeks ago. My car pings an alert furiously for just about everything and I wondered what was wrong until I saw the speed notification changed on the dashboard. There is nothing different about that part of the road, it isn’t suddenly built up, with street lights and pavements, it’s a rural road. There is a village ahead of it, which already had a 30 zone, they’ve moved that about 1/4 mile further out from the village for some reason. Missing the odd speed limit sign doesn’t make you a terrible driver.

Uk police the registered keeper gets a "notice of intended prosecution" in the post, and has to declare who was driving, failure to do so is also an offense.. French police issue on the spot fines, payable by cash or card.

For those saying there are signs no, that’s not always the case. I went to Birmingham recently and almost every road that used to be 40 or 50 has been reduced down to 30. I’m not sure when, as I don’t drive there often, but I used to, it could be so easy to run on autopilot having driven a lot of them for many years. Many of them are dual carriageways where 30 feels unnaturally slow. They do not have 30 signs on them anywhere. Instead they have small rectangular signs on lampposts saying “new 30 mph speed limit in force” - they are white writing on a red background which is no where near as easy to read as a big black number in a red circle. Especially at night. Or when it’s lashing with rain like it was for me the other night and visibility was poor. Or when you’re also busy dodging the hundreds of potholes along the road… There’s not even warnings/speed signs as you enter these roads. You could easily sail past a couple without noticing (especially on a dual carriageways where there could be a lorry obscuring them, too) and boom, speeding ticket.

I can’t help think that if they’ve gone to the trouble of putting up these small signs, they could have easily put some actual speed signs up and they would have actually been a lot more effective.

I was doing 45 in a 30 but had was meters from the national limit sign. I got 3 points and 100 fine.

I got done doing 34 in a 30 by a police van camera. I had a notice through the post and a choice to pay the fine and get three points or pay the fine and do a speed awareness course. I did the latter.

OP was it an app (google maps, Waze) that said 45 or your speedometer? I’d the latter, they are often slightly wrong so it maybe that you were actually doing a slow enough speed to be offered the course. A did a course several years ago (36 in a 30 where the road changed from 50 to 30 but I hadn’t slowed quickly enough). They said the course is only for “just over” the speed limit.
The fine/cost is the same either way but the course means you avoid points.

In response to people asking if the policeman with a gun has to pull you over and fine you there and then.
Sadly not, I was caught by a policeman with a gun and got a letter in the post a week later.

Not a myth, absolutely true, mine is showing 2-4 miles over the real speed depending on speed the higher the speed the bigger the gap

You won’t get offered a SAC due to how high over the limit you were.

Not realising the limit had been changed from 50 to 30 is no excuse as I’m sure it’s well signed.

50, down to 30 on stretches and back again happens a lot on some long roads around here.
I got caught out on a road that suddenly had a stretch of 30 limit on a road that had always been 40 (by a police van camera).
Yes there must have been a sign on the road, but I didn't notice it, and my car sat nav hadn't updated.

Here in Spain you don't get any points until you go about 30 kms over the speed limit, and they will happily fine you for going 1 km over! It's quite sensible of them I think as they make a ton of money off fines. They also never send you the fine notice in time for you to pay the lower amount...

There are two long hills near me where the speed limit changes from 50 to 30 along it, the signs for those changes are in tree foliage because our council do next to no road side maintenance. Often a lot of the signs around here are equally covered or so green from being under trees that they do not reflect at night. Being local I am aware of those speed changes, any visitors would easily miss them. Guess where they set up the mobile speed traps.

It's not obvious you will get caught. Sometimes they park the van and do nothing, even go away for the day then come back.

Other times they might not be operating, just sitting inside having a coffee and a chat, or setting up.

You should mentally prepare yourself for being caught, but there is no guarantee you will be.

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