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AIBU to ask how many points you've got on your license for speeding?

256 replies

greenlantern1 · 08/05/2018 11:38

Just curious what most people have - and what people are ok with.

And before I get any strident judgements about it never being ok to have points, can people please refrain themselves.

OP posts:
ProudPearlClutcher · 08/05/2018 11:40

I haven’t got any, but I’ve only had a car for about a year. Less actually. Don’t they normally let you do a speeding awareness course instead of the points?

PinkHeart5914 · 08/05/2018 11:40

None!

SilverySurfer · 08/05/2018 11:41

...

FellOutOfBed2wice · 08/05/2018 11:41

None. But then I drive like an old lady. DH also none. My parents and sister none either. FIL has three I think. SIL also has three. Best friend has three too.

jugglingsatsumas · 08/05/2018 11:41

None.

Aprilmightbemynewname · 08/05/2018 11:41

None.
Been driving 15 years and squeaky clean.

adaline · 08/05/2018 11:41

I don't have any points for anything. Never been pulled over by the police, and that's pretty typical for most people I know.

I only know one person with points on their license, and that wasn't for speeding.

Jinglebells99 · 08/05/2018 11:42

None, ever,and I’ve been driving for 27 years.

gwenneh · 08/05/2018 11:42

None. I've never had any. Neither has DH.

Merryoldgoat · 08/05/2018 11:42

None. Neither has my husband. I don’t speed. I keep to the speed limit and keep out of the way of those who want to overtake me and let them crack on - I don’t police others.

Speeding is dangerous and unnecessary.

MirandaWest · 08/05/2018 11:42

I’ve got none. Dh has 3

Surfingwhippet · 08/05/2018 11:42

I've been driving 29 years and have never had any points on my licence

Idontbelieveinthemoon · 08/05/2018 11:42

None. DH has 6, two lots for speeding.

Redglitter · 08/05/2018 11:43

None

StopBeingNosey · 08/05/2018 11:43

None. I was doing 35 in a 30 in 2012 and had to do the speed awareness course so I didn’t get any points.

Unihorn · 08/05/2018 11:44

None after 4 years but most people I know have between 3 and 9, none of them for excessive speeding, for going a few mph over in a 30 or 40 zone.

notmaryberry · 08/05/2018 11:45

I had 3 once but they've dropped off now in 25 years of driving. DH always has at least 3 at any one time. 6 at the moment. Practically everyone I know has had to do the speed awareness course though.

MyOtherUsernameisaPun · 08/05/2018 11:45

I have none and my DH has none. I don't think I myself would be happy having any - I'm not one for speeding, I'm usually below the limit if anything!

Lancelottie · 08/05/2018 11:46

None. DH had three, now expired.

i suspect this will be a self-selecting sample of the virtuously slow, though.

BernardsarenotalwaysSaints · 08/05/2018 11:46

I'm about to start learning so 0. DH has been driving about 16 years also has 0, he's been pulled once- as we were on our way to hospital after my waters broke with dc1, the one officer walked up to the car as I was having a contraction & shouted back to his colleague "it's a genuine one" Grin They just told him to take it steady & wished me a speedy labour didn't work, it was another 26 hours.

StopBeingNosey · 08/05/2018 11:48

I think you have to be going at least 35 for it to register as speeding uni (if I remember correctly from my speed awareness course). So nearly 20% more than the actual speed limit and probably reads as 40 on a cars speedometer.

specialsubject · 08/05/2018 11:50

none. Because it is the law not to speed and I am subject to the law. Maybe others on here aren't.

ItsNotFairLois · 08/05/2018 11:50

None, but only because I did the awareness course instead. Learnt to be a bit more careful since.

Sallystyle · 08/05/2018 11:50

It's luck though, if I am honest. It's not like I drive bang on the speed limit all of the time.

JacquesHammer · 08/05/2018 11:52

None - been driving since 2001.