Does anyone know if you get multiple speeding tickets if you have travelled at least 14 times in a week down a road thinking it was a 30 not a 20 restriction?

[Mummytotwonow]

My poor friend travelled to Wales to help look after a friend after an operation and stayed for a week. She has just returned home and found a speeding ticket (she was travelling 26mph thinking it was 30mph road and the ticket says it was 20mph). She travelled along this road at least twice a day running errands for about a week. She is so so so worried she is going to get multiple speeding tickets with fines and points and lose her license. It says she will get up to 3 points and fine on the first ticket. I have have checked the name of the road online and it looks like it's a fixed camera. She is so worried. Does anyone know what happen in a case like this?

Thanks x

This is a good recent article about 20mph zones and 20mph speed limits. I thought it was interesting.

@Dbank

As others have suggested, she needs to check the signs are correctly displayed.

If she does get 12 points, I think most magistrates wouldn't give her a ban, they would probably send her on an awareness course which might be a good idea if she really didn't notice 14 times.

Regardless I'm sure she's driving carefully now....

Magistrates don’t have the power to send anyone on a speed awareness course. And they would have no choice but to ban someone with 12 or more points, unless they are satisfied that a ban would cause exceptional hardship.

@Mummytotwonow op did your friend get any further letters?

@WithMyEncyclopedia I was meant to update but I haven't been well again - Long Covid.

No, just the one in the end. It must have been a mobile camera. Such a relief and if anything she has learnt her lesson. I'm so relieved for her

Agh, really sorry to hear re the long covid.
But good news about your friend.