RE: £10K motorway speeding fines
Discussion
Just another way to get more money in general by the looks of it- we as motorists are easy to impose charges on...
Very unlucky but a £100 fine and 3 points- or the option to not have points and take an awerness course at a further cost of £100....
dingocooke said:
Not unless they have changed very recently; I got a fixed penalty SP30 in December with £60 fine and 3 points, or the option of no points and £90 speed awareness four hour course.
Looks like poor research/standard journalism?
They have changed very recently, my friend just got cuaght doing 47 in a 40 zone.Looks like poor research/standard journalism?
Very unlucky but a £100 fine and 3 points- or the option to not have points and take an awerness course at a further cost of £100....
dingocooke said:
Frimley111R said:
Speeding fines aren't £100 are they?
Not unless they have changed very recently; I got a fixed penalty SP30 in December with £60 fine and 3 points, or the option of no points and £90 speed awareness four hour course.Looks like poor research/standard journalism?
JackReacher said:
£700 net a week doesn't make you a high earner, and will hurt if you have dependents.
It's about £40,000 a year gross.Depending on the seriousness, you are fined 50%, 100% or 150% of your relevant weekly income. For speeding that's up to a maximum of £1000 and on the motorway £2500. You are not going to get near the current maximum of £1000 unless you are a high earner, have pleaded not guilty and gone though trial and lost and have offended at the most serious end of the scale.
Very, very few motorists will be affected by the change in ay way.
Maybe if people learnt how to drive in the first place less accidents would occur. Don't recall being on any motorway in my driving lessons as a youf, or driving at night. Sure people generally can drive, but they aren't taught from the beginning about how to anticipate other motorists on faster roads like motorways, nor are they taught not to stop an empty bloody roundabouts.
All new drivers are s
t, the end.
All new drivers are s
t, the end. This won't be popular but I don't see the point in the cap, if it's for serious offences and linked to earnings anyway, the £10k limit seems a little arbitrary. Presumably the fine is a deterrent as well as a (very minor) earner for the govt, so £10k for a Prem footballer doing 190mph for example, is nothing.
shalmaneser said:
sunnydude959 said:
You know what. I give up.
This is absolutely fking ridiculous. £10k fine?!
What is ridiculous about that?This is absolutely f
king ridiculous. £10k fine?!It's a lot of money but if you're stupid enough to be spanking your Porsche turbo S at 190mph you've probably got it coming.
michaelcolby83 said:
They should build a race track somewhere in Britain designed purely for high speed driving, a big 5 mile oval or something, and charge people to use it. At the moment, people who want to drive flat out have no other choice but to use the motorways. There are dozens of tracks in Britain, does every single last one need to be tight and twisty?
What, like Rockingham?
boyse7en said:
michaelcolby83 said:
They should build a race track somewhere in Britain designed purely for high speed driving, a big 5 mile oval or something, and charge people to use it. At the moment, people who want to drive flat out have no other choice but to use the motorways. There are dozens of tracks in Britain, does every single last one need to be tight and twisty?
What, like Rockingham?
To average you and me, Whatever we would have been fined last month, we will still be fined next month.
(i was not fined last month, its just hypothetical)
The way the papers are wording this should persuade the average non-pistonheader to pay a little more attention while driving, so i see it as a good move.
(i was not fined last month, its just hypothetical)
The way the papers are wording this should persuade the average non-pistonheader to pay a little more attention while driving, so i see it as a good move.
michaelcolby83 said:
No, a 5 mile oval which can be driven flat out all the way around. Rockingham on track days is not such a track, there are multiple slow corners and the straights are not that long (like on 1001 other tracks).
Milbrook has a fairly decent High speed ring. I managed 110mph on that :-)Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff