Quickest speeding ticket...
Quickest speeding ticket...
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Trikster

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931 posts

231 months

Sunday 8th September 2024
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... not in mph, but from owning the car


Sold a car a few weeks ago, and fortunately did the transfer of ownership on line, so had the exact time of sale.

Last week received a 'notice to prosecute' for 35mph in a 30..... dated and timed 1hr 2mins after I sold it.

(not sure why it came to me, though i did a plate retention a few days before selling it (had the new V5 at point of sale)so assume systems hadn't caught up)

andy43

13,189 posts

283 months

Monday 9th September 2024
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35 in a 30 is a bit disappointing - experiencing a full police raid for 180 in a 70 would have been far more impressive.

alan36

491 posts

213 months

Monday 9th September 2024
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78 in a 60 on a new bike I had just bought, within an hour of taking delivery.

CardinalBlue

1,350 posts

106 months

Monday 9th September 2024
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I did a speed awareness course earlier in the year, and the instructor told us she once had someone who had been caught twice within eight minutes.

Blue62

10,587 posts

181 months

Monday 9th September 2024
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CardinalBlue said:
I did a speed awareness course earlier in the year, and the instructor told us she once had someone who had been caught twice within eight minutes.
Could’ve been my wife. She popped to a village shop and didn’t notice the camera van parked at the side of the road, bought what we it was she needed and on return the van had switched sides, catching her again! I still dine out on the story.

thebraketester

15,772 posts

167 months

Monday 9th September 2024
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1 day after I got my first car. Got caught at 98. Ooops.

Geoffcapes

1,287 posts

193 months

Monday 9th September 2024
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My mates mum (bless her she was 76 at the time) got caught 3 times by the same speed camera in one day.

She didn't think it worked as she didn't see the flash!

Dusty964

7,342 posts

219 months

Monday 9th September 2024
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About 150 metres from the dealership I picked my sparkly new Geely up from.
100 odd quid fine.

supacool1

738 posts

208 months

Monday 9th September 2024
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Geoffcapes said:
My mates mum (bless her she was 76 at the time) got caught 3 times by the same speed camera in one day.

She didn't think it worked as she didn't see the flash!
Bless her - did she go back and check? biggrin

Geoffcapes

1,287 posts

193 months

Monday 9th September 2024
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supacool1 said:
Geoffcapes said:
My mates mum (bless her she was 76 at the time) got caught 3 times by the same speed camera in one day.

She didn't think it worked as she didn't see the flash!
Bless her - did she go back and check? biggrin
biglaugh

BIGDAI

412 posts

240 months

Monday 9th September 2024
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97 on a 70 mph dual carriageway on the way home from the office after taking delivery of my new (to me) company car (Peugeot 406).
The nice officer - who l had just overtaken in his unmarked BMW - said he'd pulled me before l got to the crest of the hill so l didn't break the 100mph mark on the other side as l wasn't driving like a prat and didn't deserve that!

Donbot

4,194 posts

156 months

Monday 9th September 2024
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About 4 hours after buying a car I spent 3 years saving up for, so that was a bit of a downer.

Piston Ted

299 posts

89 months

Monday 9th September 2024
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BIGDAI said:
97 on a 70 mph dual carriageway on the way home from the office after taking delivery of my new (to me) company car (Peugeot 406).
The nice officer - who l had just overtaken in his unmarked BMW - said he'd pulled me before l got to the crest of the hill so l didn't break the 100mph mark on the other side as l wasn't driving like a prat and didn't deserve that!
Fair play to that copper!

Chris Stott

19,552 posts

226 months

Monday 9th September 2024
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36 years ago…

Drove to Coventry to pick up a new (to me) company car from a lad who was leaving. Left to go to Hull to collect all the account cards for my new area and got pulled on the M62 at 97 rolleyes


Mikebentley

8,610 posts

169 months

Monday 9th September 2024
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Sold my Dacia on Motorway May 2023. The dealer sent an agency driver to collect it. I went out of my way to collect her at 1930hrs from a train station 8 miles away so keen was I for the collection to take place. Did checks and payment received so waved her off. Best thing I ever did was go straight onto DVLA and register the sale/transfer and printed off a screenshot of transaction time/date recorded.

A week later on the Saturday morning got a letter with a picture of the daft cow going through a speed camera at over 90mph on the M1 at 01:30 am.

BIGDAI

412 posts

240 months

Monday 9th September 2024
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Piston Ted said:
Fair play to that copper!
I thought so!

CTO

3,002 posts

239 months

Monday 9th September 2024
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CardinalBlue said:
I did a speed awareness course earlier in the year, and the instructor told us she once had someone who had been caught twice within eight minutes.
I have also had this..

Going to the vets for a prescription for the dog

36 in a 30 on the way there
37 in a 30 on the way back

And had had a speed awareness notification the month prior.

I went from a clean licence for years, to six points in about six weeks.

The above related insurance hike (and the crippling road tax) led to me parting company with my C70 T5 at insurance renewal time frown

Entirely my own fault, but god did it smart ..

ImbackYo

495 posts

41 months

Monday 9th September 2024
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That's the real issue, courts give insurance companies another licence to print money. Not that they need it atm.

Second Best

6,534 posts

210 months

Tuesday 10th September 2024
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Not speeding as such, but I once "swapped" cars (let's say it was a 911 for an M6). The other chap was a good guy so I hung around as he said he'd provide a nice meal as he owned the restaurant we'd met at.

I left at around 2030. I had a ticket come through for a red light camera at 2111.

I provided the speed camera people a copy of my sale and sent a text to my new friend that he'd been caught going through a red light camera.

His response was along the lines of "that's how I found out the M6 doesn't stop as quickly as the 911. I'll handle it."

Never heard anything back.

fourthpedal

156 posts

33 months

Tuesday 10th September 2024
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Not quite what OP was asking for, but how about fastest one after getting a licence? Some chap in Switzerland got (I assume) a 3 month ban the day they passed their test for doing 126km/h in an 80km/h - link is in German: https://www.20min.ch/story/18-jaehriger-besteht-au... . They don't tell you how many hours after the test that this happened. I remember my driving instructor taking over for the drive back after my test, maybe to prevent exactly this kind of story.