OT Points and insurance

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Judith

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• Feb 24, 2006

• #21

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:44:20 +0000, Steve Taylor
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Bugger it. Just collected my first ever points for speeding - on the M62
>at Liverpool - 65 in an apparently 50 limit.

Hard luck, Steve.

Out of (personal) interest - how long did it take from being flashed
to geting the NIP/Points?

I drove the M62 into Liverpool two weeks ago and "misunderstood" that
50 limit. I don't think I was much above 50 (definitely below 60) so
I hope I wasn't flashed.

Judith

 

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Lee_D

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• Feb 24, 2006

• #22

"Judith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:44:20 +0000, Steve Taylor
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Bugger it. Just collected my first ever points for speeding - on the M62
>>at Liverpool - 65 in an apparently 50 limit.
>
> Hard luck, Steve.
>
> Out of (personal) interest - how long did it take from being flashed
> to geting the NIP/Points?
>
> I drove the M62 into Liverpool two weeks ago and "misunderstood" that
> 50 limit. I don't think I was much above 50 (definitely below 60) so
> I hope I wasn't flashed.
>
> Judith

Notice of intended prosecution should be with you in 2 weeks. Posted (not
landed your end) counts as served.

Sound like you will be ok if 2 weeks have passed.

Lee

 

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steve

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• Feb 24, 2006

• #23

Judith wrote:

> Hard luck, Steve.
>
"Thanks" ;-)
> Out of (personal) interest - how long did it take from being flashed
> to geting the NIP/Points?
>
> I drove the M62 into Liverpool two weeks ago and "misunderstood" that
> 50 limit. I don't think I was much above 50 (definitely below 60) so
> I hope I wasn't flashed.

Just over 2 weeks I think.

Steve

 

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Judith

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• Feb 24, 2006

• #24

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:21:23 +0000, steve
<[email protected]> wrote:

>> Out of (personal) interest - how long did it take from being flashed
>> to geting the NIP/Points?
>>
>> I drove the M62 into Liverpool two weeks ago and "misunderstood" that
>> 50 limit. I don't think I was much above 50 (definitely below 60) so
>> I hope I wasn't flashed.
>
>Just over 2 weeks I think.

I still have a few days to go then. Oh bother!

Judith

 

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Derek

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• Feb 24, 2006

• #25

"Lee_D" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Dave Liquorice <[email protected]> uttered summat worrerz funny about:
>> I've never had a single point, let alone three, in 29 years of having
>> a full licence.
>>
>> If "everyone" has 3 points I feel I ought to be getting a discount on
>> my insurance for bing so good.
>
> Oh Dave...thats tempting fate a bit!
>
> Gatso points come in three's... at least at the lower end of the scale. So
> say for instance you drove the A34 (named gatso alley by Top Gear
> presenters) from South Staffs to North Staffs with a faulty speedo you
> could be banned several times over.
>
> Well done though you are a stirling example to motorists.. and I mean
> that, I too was once proud of my unblemished licence.
>
> Lee D
> --
> www.lrproject.com
>
Thats true enough you could get a ban just driving the A523 Rushton Spencer
through to Leek. Not a big fan of gatso's tho the nutters know where they
are and slow down to pass then speed up IMO at least on motorway road works
the average speed cameras do the job and protect the lads doing the work.
Derek
30 years no points (smug old git)
http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm

 

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Karen Gallagher

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• Feb 25, 2006

• #26

Derek wrote:
> "Lee_D" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Dave Liquorice <[email protected]> uttered summat worrerz funny
>> about:
>>> I've never had a single point, let alone three, in 29 years of
>>> having a full licence.
>>>
>>> If "everyone" has 3 points I feel I ought to be getting a discount
>>> on my insurance for bing so good.
>>
>> Oh Dave...thats tempting fate a bit!
>>
>> Gatso points come in three's... at least at the lower end of the
>> scale. So say for instance you drove the A34 (named gatso alley by
>> Top Gear presenters) from South Staffs to North Staffs with a faulty
>> speedo you could be banned several times over.
>>
>> Well done though you are a stirling example to motorists.. and I mean
>> that, I too was once proud of my unblemished licence.
>>
>> Lee D
>> --
>> www.lrproject.com
>>
> Thats true enough you could get a ban just driving the A523 Rushton
> Spencer through to Leek. Not a big fan of gatso's tho the nutters
> know where they are and slow down to pass then speed up IMO at least
> on motorway road works the average speed cameras do the job and
> protect the lads doing the work. Derek
> 30 years no points (smug old git)
> http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm

Pardon my Antipodean ignorance, but what's a gatso?

Karen
--
"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
- Slartibartfast

 

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Nige

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• Feb 25, 2006

• #27

Karen Gallagher wrote:
> Pardon my Antipodean ignorance, but what's a gatso?
>
> Karen

It's a speed camera that gets over used in some parts of the UK. Gatsometer, it was developed by a
motorsport driver can you believe!

Nige


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Range Rover LSE (Bob) FOR SALE!!!
Range Rover 4.6 HSE (The Tank!)

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Karen Gallagher

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• Feb 25, 2006

• #28

Nige wrote:
> Karen Gallagher wrote:
>> Pardon my Antipodean ignorance, but what's a gatso?
>>
>> Karen
>
> It's a speed camera that gets over used in some parts of the UK.
> Gatsometer, it was developed by a motorsport driver can you believe!
>
> Nige
>
>
> --
> --
> Subaru WRX
> Range Rover LSE (Bob) FOR SALE!!!
> Range Rover 4.6 HSE (The Tank!)
>
> '"I don't remember asking you a goddam thing"

Thanks. We have a few red light cameras here in Brisbane, but in this state
at least, very few speed cameras, the local plods use white vans or 4x4
conspicuously parked at manned locations, which the local radio stations
tend to advertise, in typical Aussie fashion. But they still do good
business ...

Karen


--
"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
- Slartibartfast

 

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Richard Brookman

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• Feb 25, 2006

• #29

....and Nige spake unto the tribes of Usenet, saying...


> Karen Gallagher wrote:
>> Pardon my Antipodean ignorance, but what's a gatso?
>>
>> Karen
>
> It's a speed camera that gets over used in some parts of the UK.
> Gatsometer, it was developed by a motorsport driver ...

.... called Maurice Gatsonides, a Dutch rally driver. IIRC, he invented the
"Gatsometer" as a way of checking his own speeds in the absence of better
ways of getting split-second timing. (The best method at the time was two
rubber tubes laid across the road with a crude timing device to work out
average speed.) He and his family started producing the devices as a
cottage industry, and then ...

I don't know quite whether to applaud his initiative and commercial
aptitude, or curse the b*****d to hell and back.

--
Rich
==============================

There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary
and those who don't.

 

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Dave Liquorice

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• Feb 25, 2006

• #30

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:57:32 GMT, Derek wrote:

> Not a big fan of gatso's tho the nutters know where they are and slow
> down to pass then speed up IMO at least on motorway road works

They do that everywhere. Some people do it if they see the painted marks
on the road. Nearly shunted someone who did that in lane 3 of a motorway,
the road markings where "left over" from a temporary camera at some
roadworks that had finished the week before.

> the average speed cameras do the job and protect the lads doing the
> work.

Quite agree, it is *very* noticeable that people take much more care of
their speed in average speed camera areas.

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Cheers [email protected]
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ormus

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• Feb 25, 2006

• #31

hired a van from salford van hire tother month with another named driver. he got flashed twice in 1 week!
i was sweating for 2 weeks, cause id get the ticket and have to grass him up.
luckily nothing has arrived.

 

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AJH

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• Feb 25, 2006

• #32

On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:05:29 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>> the average speed cameras do the job and protect the lads doing the
>> work.
>
>Quite agree, it is *very* noticeable that people take much more care of
>their speed in average speed camera areas.

M11 being a case in point atm, no-one over 40, most 38, not a worker
in sight (or site).

AJH

 

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Larry

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• Feb 27, 2006

• #33

Sfunny you should be talking about Liverpool, you telling me there is a
fifty limit on the motorway there, before I broke down yet again I was
shifting sommat like 65 in that vicinity.


--
Larry
Series 3 rust and holes



"Steve Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Bugger it. Just collected my first ever points for speeding - on the M62
> at Liverpool - 65 in an apparently 50 limit. (not in a 101)
>
> And its insurance renewal time. Are three points going to make much of a
> difference ?
>
> Steve