Speeding ticket question(s)

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I will be grateful if people don't pile on. I am not contesting this ticket. I want to learn to not get one again.

I got a ticket for speeding last weekend, Sunday 11am. The stretch of road is about 1km long, goes from 50mph zone to 30mph. I know it fairly well, I remember thinking how few cars or people were around. Felt especially empty.

The letter says I was doing 41mph in a 30 zone with "manned restrictions", which puzzles me. I feel sure there were no roadside workers, no roadworks barriers. Am almost as sure there were no "speed camera signs!" warnings, too.

I walked up the road hours later and was no roadworks activity on the stretch I never drove on, ether.

Is it possible that there were roadside works on the weekdays before my visit, and the restrictions were still there because they had been in the area? I just keep puzzling why does the letter say "manned restrictions".

Also this takeaway:
Cameras are there even if no signs say they are

Why aren't you contesting it? Sounds like it might be an error.

Contest it then. As it sounds incorrect.

I think if you dive into the website you can view the picture the camera took of you. Might help?

I got snapped doing 35 in a 30 on the very furthest outskirts of a village near me. I was so puzzled when i got the letter because i am always so careful through the villages round here because of kids and wildlife and horses ect and i get pissed off seeing cars speeding through.

I got to see the pic and could identify where i was and it was so far out of the village there were just sheep in fields either side - but hay ho - fair cop, i paid the fine.

God knows where the camera was though! There was no van and def no permanent camera. You could see from the angle that it must have been someone with a hand held camera actually hiding in the bushes!!

Thanks all. I am thinking someone was nestled in the trees snapping pics, that's what "manned restrictions" means. At least I hope so. That someone manually took the picture. The pic shows my car but you couldn't tell from the pic exactly where car was because car fills the picture.

I am so annoyed so am thinking I need to write a list of all the things I don't have to worry about today, at least.

I am bracing for 6 points and £400 fine, sigh.

Manned restriction means it was a person / speed van that caught you, rather than a traditional yellow box camera. (we had local police officers manning a particularly bad bit where it goes from 60mph to 30mph recently and someone posted a similar query on the local Facebook group!).

Could’ve been a policeman hidden at the side of the road or an unmarked vehicle. The guidelines is that the camera should be visible to act as a deterrent, but it’s not a requirement - you should obey speed limits even if there are no camera signs. It doesn’t mean there were roadworks at the time.

But 41 in a 30 would almost certainly be 4 points in court, and it’s what I (and most justices) would award in a single justice process - with a fine at 100% of your weekly after tax income.

You won’t be getting 6 points and a £400 fine. It’s within the limits for a course and even if you aren’t offered one it’ll be a standard 3 points/£100 fixed penalty.

What do you mean advice on how to avoid speeding tickets in future?
Obey the speed limit.
What other advice could there be?