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"Simon Mason" wrote in message ... "Adam Lea" wrote in message news:EM6dnRpGDc- I hope she took you out to a meal (or something similar) as compensation. She couldn't pay her speeding fine, so where was she going to find the money to buy a meal from? Oh, I thought you meant she didn't have any money at that time, so she could buy you a meal when she did have some money. She was in between jobs at the time and had no money of her own. If you are bailing her out when she gets a fine where is the incentive for her to learn from her mistakes? She now has a job 4 miles away to which she drives. Her incentive is that if she lost her licence she'd have to to *cycle* there. My goodnes, a WHOLE four miles, how on earth can she be expected to cycle that far! Alan |
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"alan.holmes" wrote in message ... I assumed, in the first instance, that the devices were reliable, so I took it that I had exceeded the speed limit, I have no idea whether I was guilty of exceeding the speed limit on the others, but the fact they were dropped, makes me feel I was not guilty, as are probably most people trapped by these things. Did you not know if you were exceeding the speed limit? Surely, it is a prerequisite of driving on a public road to a) be able to know what the speed limit is for the road you are on and the class of vehicle you are driving and b) be capable of driving the vehicle at no more than this limit. Do you just drive around willy-nilly not knowing if you are speeding or not? In my case, when I got 3 speeding fines through the post addressed to me, I knew it couldn't possibly be me as I don't speed, why weren't you as sure? -- Simon Mason http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/ |
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"alan.holmes" wrote in message ... I assumed, in the first instance, that the devices were reliable, so I took it that I had exceeded the speed limit, I have no idea whether I was guilty of exceeding the speed limit on the others, but the fact they were dropped, makes me feel I was not guilty, as are probably most people trapped by these things. Did you not know if you were exceeding the speed limit? Surely, it is a prerequisite of driving on a public road to a) be able to know what the speed limit is for the road you are on and the class of vehicle you are driving and b) be capable of driving the vehicle at no more than this limit. Do you just drive around willy-nilly not knowing if you are speeding or not? In my case, when I got 3 speeding fines through the post addressed to me, I knew it couldn't possibly be me as I don't speed, why weren't you as sure? -- Simon Mason http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/ |
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thaksin writes:
A brief check of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 doesn't say anything about an exemption for cars with unusual tyre sizes. I conclude therefore that the legal requirement for speedometer accuracy holds nevertheless, and if you modify your car in this way it's your responsibility to finish the job properly That is _almost_ the case (and incidentally the reason why the speedo for my 'new' Minor was custom-calibrated). But I don't think there's a requirement for it. Care to clarify that "not a requirement"? I can assure you that the law is quite explicit: do you mean simply that it's often not enforced? It's not tested at MOT time, anyway. When I moved the Minor from one restorer to another 150 miles away I phoned the local plodshop to check whether I could drive it since the speedo was still away, and they were quite happy that I had a TomTom which I was using for the job. If your TomTom is "capable of indicating speed in both miles per hour and kilometres per hour, either simultaneously or, by the operation of a switch, separately", and assuming it doesn't underread, it most probably fulfills the legal requirement anyway. As long as it had a clear view of the sky for all those 150 miles ... -dan |
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Daniel Barlow wrote:
thaksin writes: A brief check of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 doesn't say anything about an exemption for cars with unusual tyre sizes. I conclude therefore that the legal requirement for speedometer accuracy holds nevertheless, and if you modify your car in this way it's your responsibility to finish the job properly That is _almost_ the case (and incidentally the reason why the speedo for my 'new' Minor was custom-calibrated). But I don't think there's a requirement for it. Care to clarify that "not a requirement"? I can assure you that the law is quite explicit: do you mean simply that it's often not enforced? Well, there was no speedo in the car when it was tested, and it passed. Make of that what you will It's not tested at MOT time, anyway. When I moved the Minor from one restorer to another 150 miles away I phoned the local plodshop to check whether I could drive it since the speedo was still away, and they were quite happy that I had a TomTom which I was using for the job. If your TomTom is "capable of indicating speed in both miles per hour and kilometres per hour, either simultaneously or, by the operation of a switch, separately", and assuming it doesn't underread, it most probably fulfills the legal requirement anyway. As long as it had a clear view of the sky for all those 150 miles ... Well I reckon its capable of underreading, at least momentarily. |
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Simon Mason wrote:
Did you not know if you were exceeding the speed limit? Surely, it is a prerequisite of driving on a public road to a) be able to know what the speed limit is for the road you are on and the class of vehicle you are driving and b) be capable of driving the vehicle at no more than this limit. My dad was caught by a camera last year. Fair cop, he hadn't been paying enough attention, guilty as charged. He went on the "awareness course" offered, and said that he was the only guilty person there. /Everyone/ else would swear it was all a frightful injustice. Given the options of lots of people being in denial or the cameras that caught them being wrong, he seems to think the former option is considerably more likely. Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ |
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On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:59:18 +0100, "Adam Lea"
wrote: wrote: On 25 Apr, 19:30, "alan.holmes" wrote: wrote in message Was she silly enough to pay the fine, or did she ask to see the 'evidence'? She admitted she was doing 40 mph in a 30 mph zone outside of a school and since she had no money *I* was silly enough to pay the fine! I hope she took you out to a meal (or something similar) as compensation. I hope she stopped driving completely. 40mph past a school is inexcusable IMHO. -- (\__/) M. (='.'=) Owing to the amount of spam posted via googlegroups and (")_(") their inaction to the problem. I am blocking most articles posted from there. If you wish your postings to be seen by everyone you will need use a different method of posting. |
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Mark wrote:
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:59:18 +0100, "Adam Lea" wrote: wrote: On 25 Apr, 19:30, "alan.holmes" wrote: wrote in message Was she silly enough to pay the fine, or did she ask to see the 'evidence'? She admitted she was doing 40 mph in a 30 mph zone outside of a school and since she had no money *I* was silly enough to pay the fine! I hope she took you out to a meal (or something similar) as compensation. I hope she stopped driving completely. 40mph past a school is inexcusable IMHO. Surely that depends on the circumstances? |
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"Brimstone" wrote in message ... Mark wrote: 40mph past a school is inexcusable IMHO. Surely that depends on the circumstances? There is a primary school near me on a single carriageway road, one side is grass verge, the school side is pavement (standard width) and the speed limit *is* 40mph. I suppose it would be excusable. Problem is that drivers being drivers, they think 45 - 50 is OK in a 40 limit. |
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