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Article #202Re: Subject: Re: Fu.. flippin' Birmingham Roads
From: Stuart Richards
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 00:00
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In article <N9nD5CAZU0g0EwrJ@jelibeli.demon.co.uk>, Ian Coombs-Lewis
<ian@doyouthinkthiswillstopthem?.co.uk> writes
>A friend of mine was caught in a speed trap a while ago, by the W.Mids
>Police. They explained their system to him while they wrote the ticket
>- I was a passenger, so I heard it all.
>
>Basically, you may be stopped and cautioned for doing anything over the
>speed limit, but you won't be done for anything up to (but NOT
>including) 15mph over the limit. Reach 15mph over, and it's a fine and
>three points. Then it's three more points and a higher fine for each
>10mph more. However, AIUI, 100mph is theorhetically an instant ban
>pending a magistrates hearing, regardless of the limit, although this
>rarely happens.
I heard it was a ban for 30mph over the speed limit, irrespective of the
limit.
Cheers,
Stuart Richards
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