9 Points For Driving at 22 - 25 mph

[bad company]

Never mind that he’s a doctor but shows how harsh the penalties can be these days. Sorry about the pay wall though there are ‘ways’ around.

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-sunday-telegrap...

[bigothunter]

bad company said:

Sorry about the pay wall though there are ways around.

Like clicking 'READ THIS ARTICLE'

[agtlaw]

Four similar offences. A course for the first.

I suspect he wasn’t prosecuted but paid 3 fixed penalties and therefore avoided prosecution.

22/20 mph is 2 mph below the enforcement threshold so I suspect the numbers reported are net of VAT.

[Terminator X]

Look to Brighton, no less accidents and they've had 20 zones since 2013.

Great for fining the plebs though.

TX.

[Jamescrs]

I'm no anti speeding crusader, and I did a speed awareness course myself in January but he has been caught 4 times in quick succession and hasn't learnt his lesson, or at least taken measures to avoid getting caught so only himself to blame really.

Maybe he should consider buying a car with some additional measures to assist with exceeding the speed limit in 20 zones.

[Oceanrower]

agtlaw said:

22/20 mph is 2 mph below the enforcement threshold so I suspect the numbers reported are net of VAT.

Is that a polite way of saying “absolute bks”?

[119]

Yeah poor man being caught four times.

[E-bmw]

bad company said:

Never mind that he s a doctor but shows how harsh the penalties can be these days. Sorry about the pay wall though there are ways around.

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-sunday-telegrap...

HE WAS CAUGHT 4 TIMES!

That is the definition of an idiot that doesn't learn a lesson.

[bad company]

E-bmw said:

HE WAS CAUGHT 4 TIMES!

That is the definition of an idiot that doesn't learn a lesson.

I’d be feeling hard done by if I got anything at all for 22 mph.

[Evanivitch]

Barbaric and anti-democracy.

26mph is the enforcement limit in Wales

[havoc]

E-bmw said:

HE WAS CAUGHT 4 TIMES!

That is the definition of an idiot that doesn't learn a lesson.

In olden times I'd have agreed with you, but:-
- I'd be interested in how many of these were fixed sites, vs vans/handheld?
- How many happened in daylight vs darkness (the newer cameras in London ARE harder to spot)?
- ...and noting this is in London, which is a f'n nightmare to drive around at almost any time because of bus lanes and width restrictions and cyclists and e-scooters and Lime bikes and Deliveroo and pedestrians really not giving even a single fk and parked cars everywhere and signage that gets lost amongst all the other road furniture / advertising boards / bus shelters / etc. (have I missed anything? )
- They're all 20-zones, which from personal experience ARE difficult to stick to because they often feel so fking slow, and that's in a manual where I can pop it in second and the audible revs are a reminder - in a modern quiet auto I CAN see the headache of having to keep looking at the speedo.

I AM, like others, interested in what the actual speeds were though.

[Arrivalist]

Terminator X said:

Look to Brighton, no less accidents and they've had 20 zones since 2013.

Great for fining the plebs though.

TX.

A place I have no intention of visiting again.

[2020vision]

"A DOCTOR has amassed nine points on his driv­ing licence for the crime of driv­ing at just 22mph.

Dr Gary Duf­field, from north Lon­don, is now just one more speed­ing ticket away from being banned from driv­ing.

The 67-year-old psy­chi­at­rist was caught last year driv­ing at 22mph in a 20mph zone and had to pay a fine and attend a speed aware­ness course...."


The crime isn't driving at 22 mph, it is speeding.

Perhaps a psy­chi­at­rist could work out where his mind is going wrong while driving.

[Nicetobenice]

Last Christmas I drove down to London and we stayed in an air bnb for a week.
Driving round the Central area for a week I really thought the 20mph zones had a positive effect and the traffic seemed to move pretty smoothly

Overall I was pretty impressed

A few days into the new year I got a NIP for 28 along Finchley Road.

And a fine for entering a low traffic zone when I took a wrong turn

wkers

Edited by Nicetobenice on Sunday 12th April 19:04

[sixor8]

I call custard too. You don't get done for 22 mph in a 20 limit.

[bad company]

sixor8 said:

I call custard too. You don't get done for 22 mph in a 20 limit.

I’d like to thank that The Telegraph would have checked the facts before publishing.

[JagYouAre]

2020vision said:

The crime isn't driving at 22 mph, it is speeding.

Perhaps a psy­chi­at­rist could work out where his mind is going wrong while driving.

I’d imagine a psychiatrist would also know that the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over end expecting different results

[agtlaw]

bad company said:

I d like to thank that The Telegraph would have checked the facts before publishing.

Lol.

[Palmela]

agtlaw said:

bad company said:

I d like to thank that The Telegraph would have checked the facts before publishing.

Lol.

Yeah, that's 'special'!

[sixor8]

Palmela said:

agtlaw said:

bad company said:

I d like to thank that The Telegraph would have checked the facts before publishing.

Lol.

Yeah, that's 'special'!

They probably meant exceeding 22mph??