Missed speed awareness course

[labsarelife]

I missed my speed awareness course by accident. Can I rebook it? Will I have to pay again? Anyone else done this? Thanks.

Well, we will never know now if the golf club, which is being well paid for accommodating the speed awareness course, would have passed the message along.

Court summons, then if guilty fine and points

You’ve had some arsey comments on here, OP. We all make mistakes. Hope it gets sorted.

It's a speed awareness course, not a yoga retreat. It's not supposed to be fluffy.

In the North West, I was giving a possibility to the OP of what could happen and not a certainty

They'll let you rebook and you'll have to pay again.

It's not a biggie. Certainly not a court matter

Lol I've been to one and there was definitely a lot of fluffing about at the start getting coffee and biscuits, and sandwiches half way through. They don't chain you to your chair and clack your hands with a ruler if you're not listening.

(Also someone was 10 mins late to ours due to traffic and they didn't care, but I appreciate that doesn't help the OP now).

A pal of mine missed her online course because her internet went out. The advice is to contact the course provider as soon as humanly possible (IE send an email today, don't wait until Monday to call them) to see if you can rebook. You will be expected to pay. If you do nothing the police may choose to prosecute, so it's very much in your best interests to try and get rebooked asap OP!

OP it's probably one of those cases where no-one can say if they will allow you to rebook with or without charge as it could vary by area and could be on a case by case basis.

Eg if you have form for doing this they could be less accommodating than if its the first time.

I would email them and explain the mistake and ask to rebook. Then call them on Monday, but wait until the afternoon so they've had a chance to respond.

Good luck.

All you can do is obtain the information relevant to you on Monday and take it from there.

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But surely better to try that rather than post on Mumsnet. For something like that surely you'd arrive a bit early anyway which would have meant you could have got to the other place on time. What if you'd hit traffic or there was an unexpected road works? Just sounds like an awful excuse to be honest.

You've attended 3 speed awareness courses? I thought that wasn't allowed (and rightly so). If the course didn't work to stop you speeding the first time, it's hardly going to work a 2nd or 3rd.

Wow there are some perfect people on this thread. OP if it makes you feel any better I once received an appointment letter from Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, so, on the day of the appointment I left plenty of time and got the train from my hometown - nowhere near London - and found my way to Moorfields... where they had no record at all of my appointment. Because they had very kindly booked it at the opthalmology department of my local hospital, and provided that address in the appointment letter 🤦🏼‍♀️
They were pretty unimpressed. But the point is, you're not the only one to have made a silly mistake like this.

Wow, such a helpful and informed comment 🙄

‘Sack it off’ is such lame phrase. Whatever will they think of next. If you don’t have anything helpful to suggest to the OP then why bother commenting in the first place?

you were done for speeding so we know you're already careless about laws.

The best thing now, that would really concentrate your mind i suspect, is that you get the original fine and points and maybe another fine for not showing up.

Would have been 10 minutes late? Well yes, but better than a completely unexcused no-show.

Speed kills. Pay attention.

OP, I honestly can't believe the sanctimonious replies on here.
I bet this kind of thing happens all the time.
You will just have to ring them on Monday and apologise and find out what the next step is.
I wouldn't be surprised if you're able to rearrange.
Funny how no one on Mumsnet would ever dream of speeding.

I try very hard to keep to speed limit (been caught out too many times, shock horror I have attended two SACs).
But the roads are absolutely full of women and men who pay absolutely no attention to the speed limit.
If you've been offered SAC obvs very minor offence.
Ignore the idiots on this post OP.

Yes it is allowed. They have two types of courses, one specifically for motorways and one for other types of roads. Once 3 years has lapsed since a course was attended, you can go on another should you be caught speeding again.

Speed awareness courses are only suitable if you are within so many MPH of the speed limit, I think it is something like 8MPH + 10%? Or thereabouts. The 10% to account for inconsistencies in speedometers. Anything over this speed is points and a fine, or a ban depending on how much over the limit someone is.

Thanks for your reply. It’s nice and concise, which is the sort of response I was after.

Exactly my thoughts too. I wasn’t up for being judged. I’m my own worst critic anyway. I was merely asking a simple question requesting info as to what happens next.
I find it worrying that there are people out there, willing to pounce on me for muddling up an appointment venue, rather than criticising me for the act of speeding itself. Strange but there we have it.

I have done this once many years ago, when I physically couldn't find the venue. I booked it again and paid again. This was in Cambridgeshire circa 2009.

I hope you get it sorted, but quite honestly I would have still driven to the other venue - at lease they’d know you actually turned up …. As it stands now it looks like a complete no show, no matter what you say to them 🤷‍♀️ I also would have arrived at the venue with 30 mins to spare, (therefore giving you time to be elsewhere in this case), but ultimately allowing for traffic parking, paperwork, nerves anything 🤷‍♀️

I’d send an email now and follow up with a phone call on Monday, so they know you’ve tried to do something.

At least you are criticising me for the actual speeding offence; which I wholeheartedly agree with. Speed does kill and I was wrong to speed. It was also a dreadful oversight to turn up at the incorrect venue.
I don’t regret not turning up at the correct venue late though. That would have been yet another misdemeanour, when specifically requested not to and could have been another stroke against me. I could have been had for time wasting and causing an interruption to the training session itself. Imagine that in addition to all of my other errors!
So I agree with your most of your comments but not all of them and thanks too for drawing everyone’s attention back to the real crime here, which was the traffic offence. I would have thought more people would have pointed out that that was the only actual crime committed here but it seems you were the only one concerned enough to do so.

To turn up late when specifically requested NOT to do so, could have interrupted the training session and caused even more problems. That would have then been a missed session AND a case of ignoring their specific request of what to do if late, therefore making me incompetent and also rude!
No, I’m perfectly happy to be a complete no show, rather than balls up twice on the same day.

And selfishly interrupted the training session just to try and get out of having to admit going to the wrong venue and possibly facing penalty points. Nope. Honesty is the best policy with me. I’m don’t agree with you at all.