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I got flashed by speed camera going to friend in labour - what to do?

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mears · 14/09/2005 23:00

As some of you know I delivered a friend/colleague's baby inher car at a layby the other night .

What I didn't include in my story was the fact that when I was driving to her house I got slightly lost and then got flashed by a speed camera. I was doing just over 40mph in a 30 zone (I actually thought it was 40).

Now my dilemma is that I already have 6 point so another 3 would get me dangerously close to losing my licence. My DH says I should say he was driving but that is illegal. My work colleague (whose DH is a lawyer) say I could appeal them because I was going to attend a woman in labour.

The flash actually went off and sort of blinded me so does that mean it was actually a car on the other side of the road that triggered it? If so I have no worry. If it was me, do you think I should appeal?

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Tinker · 16/09/2005 13:21

Sometimes they just flash as well, with no cars nearby.

Janh · 16/09/2005 13:26

Offended me? How?

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mears · 16/09/2005 16:10

Thanks cod - LOL at car sticker.

JanH - had a look today at camera and there are no lines on the side of the road I was driving. I definitely think it was a car on the other side of the road triggered the flash.

I actually don't think speeding cameras are stupid - I think it is stupid that cars are so responsive these days that you are over the speed limit without realising it.

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hunkermunker · 16/09/2005 16:45

Think there should be cameras at all traffic lights to catch the wankers who think it's OK to go through on red.

starshaker · 16/09/2005 16:52

these were average speed cameras he was over the average by about 5 or 10mph through a few of them there is a camera every 3 miles i think he was in stranrear and she was in ayr. they didnt know she had broken her leg just shed had a really nasty fall off her horse. she wouldnt phone cos she didnt want them to think she was stupid and if she did she would have got a nice £30 charge for calling 1 out

mancmum · 16/09/2005 17:08

have not read all this so sorry if repeating... but in some areas being clocked doing under 40 in a 30 zone means you can drop the points and fine if you pay to go on a speed awareness course takes a day and is actually really good and improved by driving no end and saves you getting points...

Think this might only be available in northwest though...

Janh · 16/09/2005 23:21

It's available in Lancs and possibly one other country but it's not just under 40, it's specifically either 35/36 or 36/37 (ie definitely 36!)

I did get clocked at 36 and was offered the course several years ago but at the time my eyesight was v bad (shouldn't have been driving at all really but only went short distances and never at night) so turned it down in case they spotted my problem ( again). This could be why I didn't spot the police with the hand-held speed camera I suppose...

coldtea, re your friend's child, if that driver had been doing anything up to 43/44 he/she would still have been within the limit and the child would probably have been killed. The issue there is not speed limits/cameras but why her child was able to undo his straps, climb into the front and open the door without being noticed.

In my town a small child (aged 3, playing on the main road with his brother, shouldn't have been out without an adult) ran between 2 parked cars, was hit by a car doing a legal 30, and killed. The woman who hit him was devastated.

IMHO there should be far more 20mph zones and not just in side streets - any terraced street with narrow pavements, parked cars and busy traffic should be 20, not 30 - they should be strictly enforced and have speed bumps. Wide/dual carriageway main roads should be 40, not 30.

Janh · 16/09/2005 23:22

That would be county of course - no passports required in Lancs (yet)

Janh · 16/09/2005 23:26

This implies just Lancs - but it also says it's offered at 36, 37 & 38 subject to whim of Chief Constable and I was clocked at 38 last month and not offered it, the bastards. So not reliable inf.

ghost · 16/09/2005 23:47

hopefully it will be a camera without film! there are loads of them so you might just be lucky

hub2dee · 17/09/2005 06:18

Keep the placenta mears, use in court as evidence.

auntymandy · 17/09/2005 06:24

The flash is usually behind you isnt it? So if it was infront it might not have been you.
Wait and see, but definately appeal

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mears · 03/10/2005 22:55

Just thought i would update you to let you know it couldn't have been me who got flashed! No envelope on the door mat. Driving very carefully again

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hunkerpumpkin · 03/10/2005 22:56

I had wondered, Mears - thanks for the update! Are you doing the new job now? How's your ankle?

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mears · 03/10/2005 23:00

New job still very new - haven't got in the swing yet. Ankle still sore - improving with physio - thanks for asking. Physio thinks it has been an avulsion fracture where a sliver of bone has been pulled off with ligament. Time will heal.

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SleepySuzy · 03/10/2005 23:01

Woohoo!! Lucky you - glad you didn't get a fine!

hunkerpumpkin · 03/10/2005 23:04

Oh, ow! Hope it heals quicker than anyone expects

Have thgouht of you as haven't seen you around as much and hoped that it was because your new job was taking up your time! Not that your old one wouldn't have done...I'm going to stop digging here, if that's OK

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mears · 03/10/2005 23:08

I used to be on mumsnet during the day when I was at home inbetween working shifts. Now I am working 9-5, Mon - Fri, I don't have the same access. I do have a computer but I am too busy working on it to be mumsnetting. It has been good to break the addiction in some respects.

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