Scotland - Speeding Penalties

[jezzaaa]

Chaps - a question for the Scottish BiB if we have any! :-)

What are the boundaries between a fixed penalty and a court summons as regards speeding in the Borders? Is an alleged offence that's more than 25mph over the posted limit definitely going to be a summons or can a Camera Partnership elect to offer a FP? Even if it's 1mph over that threshold?

Cheers all,

J.

[Dwight VanDriver]

Ock eye Jammie.

Polis in Skoland heed ACPO so put yet peepers heah:

http://tinyurl.com/2n7ugg

Scroll doon to the speed chart and gerrit inter yer heed for information.

Note not obliged to heed and can stick one on you under that mentioned.

Am away new.

dvd

[jezzaaa]

Thanks matey - appreciate the info. Do you know if they stick rigidly to the recommendations? A mate got pinged at 26 miles above the speed limit in a 60 limit...is there any chance of a fixed penalty or will they definitely summons him?

Cheers,
J.

[Dwight VanDriver]

If they stick to the Guidelines then its for Court 86 in a 60. Under that should have qualified for a Conditional offer.

Is that speed an estimation from his own speedo which probaby overreads by a couple or three mph in which case C.O.

dvd

[naetype]

Pray that he don't end up at Dumfries court. They ban many with little consideration to loss of liveliehood and/or impact on others. Generally in Scotland they tend to levy heavier penalties on court appearances than down South.

Get yourself over to pepipoo...........

ETA. Guidelines are the same here as in England so are as DVD says; if 86 'they' are in court, over reading speedo and it'll be a NIP

Edited by naetype on Thursday 20th September 20:42

[jezzaaa]

Dwight VanDriver said:

If they stick to the Guidelines then its for Court 86 in a 60. Under that should have qualified for a Conditional offer.

Is that speed an estimation from his own speedo which probaby overreads by a couple or three mph in which case C.O.

dvd

Hi DVD...no, it's the speed stamped on the NIP he received!

[jezzaaa]

naetype said:

Pray that he don't end up at Dumfries court. They ban many with little consideration to loss of liveliehood and/or impact on others. Generally in Scotland they tend to levy heavier penalties on court appearances than down South.

Get yourself over to pepipoo...........

ETA. Guidelines are the same here as in England so are as DVD says; if 86 'they' are in court, over reading speedo and it'll be a NIP

Edited by naetype on Thursday 20th September 20:42

Can't see that it would be Dumfries...he got pinged on few miles out from the Lothian boundary.

Re Pepipoo...yeah we looked at that...I might be doing something wrong...but to be honest it's not very well laid out and doesn't seem to have much on there. The NIP wizard never seems to come back with anything useful. Much better information from the contributors on here. I think he's going to spend some money on a specialist solicitor for some advice...just in case there's some loophole which will let him off...

Edited by jezzaaa on Thursday 20th September 21:05