Speeding - how many tickets can you get in one day??
Discussion
If a driver breaks several speed limits there is no limit to the number of prosecutions. However the Police can chose not to pursue all charges, some charges, most charges, whatever. So far as I am aware the Police/CPS have no limits on prosecuting offences other than their judgment on which charges to pursue.
surveyor said:
Father in-law managed 3. Same camera.
Up, down and then up again. Probably lucky he went a different way back!
Excellent example. I do not think there is any limit as such it must depend on the circumstances. However I would expect the Magistrates to be pretty amenable to a sympathetic presentation of a limit to any disqualification for offences committed during the same journey. No defence as such however.Up, down and then up again. Probably lucky he went a different way back!
Steffan said:
surveyor said:
Father in-law managed 3. Same camera.
Up, down and then up again. Probably lucky he went a different way back!
Excellent example. I do not think there is any limit as such it must depend on the circumstances. However I would expect the Magistrates to be pretty amenable to a sympathetic presentation of a limit to any disqualification for offences committed during the same journey. No defence as such however.Up, down and then up again. Probably lucky he went a different way back!
If you did it in one day or in one month matters relatively little. You don't get mitigation for it all being in one journey...
RtdRacer said:
Steffan said:
surveyor said:
Father in-law managed 3. Same camera.
Up, down and then up again. Probably lucky he went a different way back!
Excellent example. I do not think there is any limit as such it must depend on the circumstances. However I would expect the Magistrates to be pretty amenable to a sympathetic presentation of a limit to any disqualification for offences committed during the same journey. No defence as such however.Up, down and then up again. Probably lucky he went a different way back!
If you did it in one day or in one month matters relatively little. You don't get mitigation for it all being in one journey...
Where TF do people get this stuff from? Yes, it is an ancient and well respected rule of the law that if you commit any offence first thing in the morning, you can commit the same offence all day with impunity. This applies to everything from careless parking to multiple rape-murder. As soon as it strikes midnight, everything turns into a pumpkin, and you have to start again. Really, OP, just think about your proposition for half a nano second, will you? In what society would such a rule exist? What policy could it serve? If something sounds stupid and far fetched, it usually is.
Breadvan72 said:
Where TF do people get this stuff from? Yes, it is an ancient and well respected rule of the law that if you commit any offence first thing in the morning, you can commit the same offence all day with impunity. This applies to everything from careless parking to multiple rape-murder. As soon as it strikes midnight, everything turns into a pumpkin, and you have to start again. Really, OP, just think about your proposition for half a nano second, will you? In what society would such a rule exist? What policy could it serve? If something sounds stupid and far fetched, it usually is.
Excellent mini-rant! 
If you take the example of someone being caught on the motorway by two consecutive speed traps on the same road, in the same speed limit, without dropping speed between them, it has been argued (successfully I believe) that it is one offence, captured twice.
Get caught in a 30 limit, then half a mile later in a 40 limit, then by the same two cameras on your way home, and you wouldn't have the same argument, but you would have need of a bus pass.
Get caught in a 30 limit, then half a mile later in a 40 limit, then by the same two cameras on your way home, and you wouldn't have the same argument, but you would have need of a bus pass.
markomah said:
Breadvan72 said:
Where TF do people get this stuff from? Yes, it is an ancient and well respected rule of the law that if you commit any offence first thing in the morning, you can commit the same offence all day with impunity. This applies to everything from careless parking to multiple rape-murder. As soon as it strikes midnight, everything turns into a pumpkin, and you have to start again. Really, OP, just think about your proposition for half a nano second, will you? In what society would such a rule exist? What policy could it serve? If something sounds stupid and far fetched, it usually is.
Excellent mini-rant! The op asked politely enough, he isn't claiming it is fact,he isn't claiming to be a lawyer, on a discussion forum he's asking a question !
Nigel Worc's said:
I thought it was a tad harsh, especially for breadvan, I was taught there weren't any stupid questions, only stupid answers.
The op asked politely enough, he isn't claiming it is fact,he isn't claiming to be a lawyer, on a discussion forum he's asking a question !
Well, by my use of the word 'rant', I thought I made it clear that I acknowledged that Breadvan72's post was choleric, opinionated and potentially disproportionate.The op asked politely enough, he isn't claiming it is fact,he isn't claiming to be a lawyer, on a discussion forum he's asking a question !
Personally, I found it a very amusing and apposite demonstration of a reductio ad absurdum argument and (very possibly because I've had a horrible head cold all week, and self-medicated with liberal hot whiskies this evening) it made me laugh out loud.
For the avoidance of doubt, my comment wasn't intended to belittle the OP.
Edited by markomah on Saturday 2nd March 00:23
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