speeding on M6 toll road

[blue tit]

Can you be prosecuted for speeding on the M6 toll road even though it is a private road?

[Tomo1971]

Really?

But yes and people are!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=speeding+m6+toll

[Integroo]

Yes, though I've read it is much less likely to be policed.

[anonymous-user]

No just ignore it, say you a freeman of the road, and you do not consent to commercial law, and the police don't observe there oath.

[corozin]

Back to reality from la-la land.

Yes you can be caught and prosecuted on the toll as it's public road space. That said, in my experience it is less heavily patrolled than the M6 & M42.

[Gafferjim]

If you're driving an Audi don't you think you own the road anyway?

[Monkeylegend]

Wasn't it a couple of years ago posters on here were warning of unmarked police cars having a ball on the M6 toll road, catching unwary speeders for the fun of it.

[DuraAce]

Thesprucegoose said:

No just ignore it, say you a freeman of the road, and you do not consent to commercial law, and the police don't observe there oath.

Follow this advice OP, you can't go wrong!

I may also have some magic beans available for sale....

[SidewaysSi]

No you can't. If you see blue lights, just ignore them

[sheepman]

I use the toll daily and you'd have to be very very unlucky to get caught speeding. More often than not you'll be getting passed like you're stopped no matter what speed you're doing.

[SidewaysSi]

No you can't. If you see blue lights, just ignore them

[The Wookie]

sheepman said:

I use the toll daily and you'd have to be very very unlucky to get caught speeding. More often than not you'll be getting passed like you're stopped no matter what speed you're doing.

You occasionally get a purge, a couple of times I’ve seen a copper with a laser gun on the footbridge a way before the services northbound with half a dozen police cars lined up at the following junction waiting to nick people or on the hard shoulder having pulled them

Like shooting fish in a barrel. Still it’s such a notoriously busy and dangerous stretch of road it’s a service to the area...................

[Lopey]

Last week I saw 4 unmarked and 1 liveried police cars, each one having pulled someone over on the opposite carriageway. Must have been a crackdown for the day.

[Squiggs]

How can it be regarded a Private road when anybody can use it?

[ruggedscotty]

Not any one, you have to pay....

The road is owned by the government and is passed to a company to operate for the government. they get the money from the users and maintain the road for the government.

simple really but its not a public road.

[yellowjack]

Squiggs said:

How can it be regarded a Private road when anybody can use it?

Because it isn't a "private road" at all. It's a part of the public highway for which a toll is charged to fund it's provision and upkeep.

The "Wah, wah, it's not fair. Why can't I speed on this road? I've bloody-well paid for it!" is as nonsensical as asking "Can I drive the wrong way across the Severn Crossing? After all, it's a "private road", and if I pay to use it I should be able to do exactly as I please"


People say the only dumb question is the one you didn't ask. It would seem that some PistonHeaders are in competition to be the exception that proves that particular 'rule'...

[Squiggs]

ruggedscotty said:

Not any one, you have to pay....

The road is owned by the government and is passed to a company to operate for the government. they get the money from the users and maintain the road for the government.

simple really but its not a public road.

Yes anyone can use it - but you have to pay.
I very much doubt anybody has ever tried to pay for using it and been refused - so as long as you pay anybody can use it.

[Pica-Pica]

Yes people can and do get prosecuted for speeding. I have seen a police car on one of the bridges, but unmarked cars do frequent it. They have purges now and again.

[Squiggs]

yellowjack said:

Squiggs said:

How can it be regarded a Private road when anybody can use it?

Because it isn't a "private road" at all. It's a part of the public highway for which a toll is charged to fund it's provision and upkeep.

The "Wah, wah, it's not fair. Why can't I speed on this road? I've bloody-well paid for it!" is as nonsensical as asking "Can I drive the wrong way across the Severn Crossing? After all, it's a "private road", and if I pay to use it I should be able to do exactly as I please"


People say the only dumb question is the one you didn't ask. It would seem that some PistonHeaders are in competition to be the exception that proves that particular 'rule'...

Well that was what I was thinking ...... it's never occurred to me that I might not get caught speeding if I was doing 120 mph across/through the Dartford crossing on the M25 just because I paid a toll - or that in the early hours of a Sunday morning I could the streets of London as a race track in just because I'd just paid a congestion charge

[DSLiverpool]

Wouldn’t it be funny if you were caught speeding and banned from using the toll road!