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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:
reddington · 08/05/2018 13:08

I did a speed awareness course for doing 63 in a 60 zone couple of years back

Sorry, but I have to call BS on that one.

Seniorcitizen1 · 08/05/2018 13:09

Driving 30+ years - never had speedong fine nor parking fine. It is so easy not to get them.

FrankieBee · 08/05/2018 13:09

0 now but I did have 9

3 for speeding (was breastfeeding a newborn and couldn’t do speed awareness course)

3 for running a red light ( driving DS to hospital with a severe burn on his hand which resulted in a skin graft), I went through the split second it changed from amber to red

3 for being on my phone. I was in standstill traffic but still hold my hands up to that one

bumblingbovine49 · 08/05/2018 13:11

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)

Not true. I was doing 34 in a 30 the first time I did a speeding course. One of the people there had been caught doing 33 in a 30mph zone

I had no points at all in 35 years of driving. In the last 7 years though, I have had two speed awareness courses and one actual fine/points so I have 3 points on my licence at the moment. So 3 times in 7 years Blush All of them for 33 or 34 in a 30mph

I found I was super careful after the first speed awareness course but it wore off after a year or so though. I really don't speed as a matter of course, though. I generall stick to the speed limit though I may
stray slighlty above it a bit occasionally then notice and slow down. I think most people do this and it is a bit of luck as to whether you get caught or not.

My Dh who learnt to drive as a adult is if the slowest most careful driver in the universe also has 3 points for doing 33 in a 30mph

All of these tickets for DH and me have been since moving county 8 years ago. I do think that some places are hotter on this than others. I think I drive much more slowly now than I used to in my previous tow counties where I had no speeding fines in 35 years!

MrsJBaptiste · 08/05/2018 13:13

0 in 25 years of driving.

How I’ve managed to get away with 0 is anyone’s guess though as I definitely don’t tootle around when I drive.

ICantCopeAnymore · 08/05/2018 13:15

Sorry, I don't do any of those things that is "smug non speeders" are supposed to. I don't middle lane hog, drive at 35, brake at everything or drove dangerously slow.

I also don't drink and I do feel glad if a drink driver is caught. One less twat on the road risking the lives of others.

chuffnstuff · 08/05/2018 13:18

0 but might be getting 3 if they don't offer a speed awareness course.

In my defence, it was a dual carriageway with no signs on the 3 mile stretch staying the speed limit and I thought at 38mph, I'd be well within the limit!

ADishBestEatenCold · 08/05/2018 13:22

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

How many points have you had, greenlantern1, and what are you okay with?

FrangipaniBlue · 08/05/2018 13:24

How odd that you think people who don't break the law are smug twats

People who don't break the law are not smug twats no you're correct there.

But people who sneer down their noses at people for having been caught speeding, by making comments like "....Because it is the law not to speed and I am subject to the law. Maybe others on here aren't" or "I don't speed, I'm not above the law" are smuggest twats of the highest order.

Pandora1box · 08/05/2018 13:25

Half the virtuous people here posting about none and no need to speed are correct but also drive at 35 no matter what the speed limit is. Break at every corner and when a lorry comes the other way and sir in the middle lane of the motorway - all far more dangerous than driving 5 miles an hour over the limit

I really don't! Talk about generalising.

lynmilne65 · 08/05/2018 13:26

just lost my license 😰😰

extinctspecies · 08/05/2018 13:26
  1. Speeding, caught on camera doing 36 on an empty road in a 30 limit at 5 am en-route to catch a plane.

Couldn't do a speed awareness course as was just less than 3 years since the last/first one I did (for going 35 in a 30 on the edge of a strange city, where hadn't noticed the limit had gone down).

Been driving for 34 years.

Also been breathalysed once, but passed with flying colours. And stopped once for being over-zealous at a red light (late for school run).

Loved doing the speed awareness course, so interesting!

cortex10 · 08/05/2018 13:27

0
40 years

jamoncrumpets · 08/05/2018 13:27

None (to my immediate knowledge!)

I got 6 points for running the same red light twice when I was two months shy of having my license for two years. I took about 10 years off driving, as I was living in London and didn't need to. Decided to drive again after I had DC, I then had to have lessons and retake both tests.

Have been driving for just over 2 years now - very very carefully!

stargirl1701 · 08/05/2018 13:29

24 years of driving. None. Ever.

ajandjjmum · 08/05/2018 13:29

jamon
That's interesting, didn't know you had to re-take your test if you hadn't driven for a period.

jamoncrumpets · 08/05/2018 13:31

ajandjjmum - you lose your licence if you get 6 points in the first two years. Sorry, should've been clearer - my licence was revoked.

NerrSnerr · 08/05/2018 13:31

I did a speed awareness course about 4 years ago but no points. My husband got 3 points a few years earlier but they've now dropped off his licence.

I have no idea about friends- it's not something I have discussed with many friends.

tobee · 08/05/2018 13:31

I have 0 points but did a speed awareness course in the last 6 months.

They showed us that there is a big difference between hitting someone at, say, 31 mph and 30.

Also reminded us of what a dual carriageway is and its speed limits. And how street lamps indicate speed limits.

And they said they are getting tougher on people going just one mph above the limit.

Also some attendees where there because they ignored temporary speed limits on motorways "because it was quiet".

A lot of people seemed to have the attitude that they unfairly caught. Some seemed to think the law shouldn't apply to them anyway.

I hardly ever speed but admitted I was guilty for the time I was caught.

ImNotMeImSomeoneElse · 08/05/2018 13:31

None

5foot5 · 08/05/2018 13:33

Also none but I did once do a speed awareness course to avoid 3 after I got caught by a speed camera.

For the record I almost never speed it was just one of those things where I didn't realise I was in a 30 not a 40 zone.

Storminateapot · 08/05/2018 13:34

One speeding fine with points in 34 years of driving, they expired years ago. I also had to do the speed awareness course about 4 year ago for doing 33 in a 30 going down a steep hill. My bad, but it's a classic place to stop people and is just fields either side and a few yards from changing to national speed limit. Felt a bit aggrieved about that one although obviously I shouldn't have done it and deserved it.

GlueSticks · 08/05/2018 13:41

I used to have 3 but they've dropped off now. That's it in 15 years of driving. Some is luck though - I don't always stick to 70 if the motorway is empty, but the ones I usually drive don't have speed cameras on them and I drive more slowly in an unfamiliar area.

MissDuke · 08/05/2018 13:41

None in 20 years of driving. DH has never had any either. However we have both had a few parking tickets over the years Sad

Definitely an element of luck in there.

Yvest · 08/05/2018 13:44

I knew all the sanctimonious “no points in 300 years of driving” crowd would pop up. Same people who never drink more than half a tea spoon of sherry once every 5 years I imagine.

I have 3 points, I almost always have 3 points. My DH usually has 3-6 points, all my sisters have at least 2 points, my mum had 6 at one point and my BIL and friend went up to 9 during a hair raising time. I have also done 2 speed awareness courses over the years. My points range from not being aware a limit had changed, going through an amber light many years ago and managing 34 in a 30 zone. I think there are plenty of us on here. I drive about £20k a year, nearly all busy city driving and to be fair those without a point or a speed awareness are in the vast minority in my experience