Is there anything we can do about an impending speeding prosecution on Tower Bridge?

[cluckyagain]

....past paying it?!! I've had the speeding prosecution letter this morning (addressed to me but was dh driving!) and it says that he was going 28mph in a 20 zone. Neither dh or I remember the 20mph sign (although we could just have not been looking closely enough) and he thought it was a 30 zone (hence the 28mph) Is it worth putting in a letter or doing anything else? Most put out as neither of us have been nabbed before! TIAxx

And the guidelines are that you will just get a fixed penalty notice for going less than 10mph over the limit, so I wouldn't worry about court

yes, my DH has been through all this too!

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A couple of years ago my DH got a notice for doing 54 in a 30 at some roadworks..we had both been there and did not see any signs, and at any roadworks we had been through we had done under 30..to this day it is a mystery and we wonder if someone else had whizzed past us and set off the cameras!! Of course as he was thinking it was a 60 limit he was doing 54...so got a court summons, we appealed and managed to get it down to 5 points instead of 6 and a £300 fine...ouch!!

So have done a lot of reading about this subject, unfortunately

But note..28 in a 20 is nothing like this and I am sure you would never have to go to court for it!!!

Just found this:

www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/3101

so maybe you WILL be offered a speed awareness course after all

herecomethegirls - thanks loads! I will show the dh and see what he thinks. Glad we won't be looking at a £300 fine - that's seriously steep

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Cod - please don't say it's a £400 fine?!! If it is that's us on bread and water for a month!!

I think that was meant to say 40..(as in 40mph) - a fixed penalty is £60..worry not!

AHHHHH - thanks...blood pressure coming down!!!

But it also does seem they are treating Tower Bridge as a special case and offering a speed awareness course instead, so don't despair