I got pulled over last Friday, I came round a corner very fast and a marked Astra was going in the other direction. The blue light was on instantly so I slowed down and let them catch up to pull me over. Admitted that whilst I wasn't sure exactly how fast I was going it was in retrospect a bit too quick, I took my warning and continued on my journey. This beats the hell out of getting points from a dumb camera. One of my first questions was "are you going to charge me" and when the response was "no" it made for fairly friendly if unwelcome experience. So fair play to the boys in blue for using some common sense.

a long time ago ' date=' I used to own a fiat uno turbo, I got the turbo boost upped from 0.8 bar to 1.2 bar, gave good speed, the guy who did it, wasn't a tuner, just a part time amature with a bleed valve kit!

story he told me, had his uno modified with a bigger turbo (from some nissan!) and boosted right up, (and drove this car!) was about 250bhp/tonne, he got caught being followed on the motorway at 147 mph.... the police didn't inspect his car when they booked him, after this, he removed all the mods and fitted all the original equipment, went to court and stated the police evedence was wrong as the uno turbo can only do 123 mph, had his car inspected and got the case thrown out!

note: wouldn't advise anyone to follow this kind of peversion of justice! lol....[/quote']

There was a similar case to this reported recently and I think that involved a fiat!

Who has ever heard of a 170 mph taxi skoda.Pah,would be laughed out of court (mine only does 146 according to the book)

A guy got zapped by a camera in a Pug 406 doing 406 mph -->http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/01/23/406mph_peugeot_pushes_back_envelope/

Guess that guy got off too!

Off topic slightly

If you are caught on camera & you get the little envelope through the door

Before returning the form write to them or fax them to say you are not sure it was you & Also if you are not sure who was driving as quite often more than one person might drive your car & can you see the photo

When you get the piccie & if it is your car & its not clear who the driver is send back the form, dont admit who was driving, just ask if they can enhance the picture in any way to give you some idea who was driving (they are unlikely to be able to do this)

You are required by law to declare who was driving as failing to declare carries the same penalty plus about an extra

Interesting that question of proving it's not you.My wife is a county court bailiffs clerk.

One of the bailiffs turned up for a levy.Collared the bloke in his garage and he said

" I'm not me I'm my brother "

Didn't work

Interesting that question of proving it's not you.My wife is a county court bailiffs clerk.

One of the bailiffs turned up for a levy.Collared the bloke in his garage and he said

" I'm not me I'm my brother "

Didn't work

strange that!!

adding to that....... i received a N.I.P from a mobile camera and was told that if i did not provide a name and address for the person driving i would be liable for the penalty anyway. bloody cheek. the only way around it would be for me to provide documentary evidence that i had done everything in my power to find out who the driver was. if you are accused of murder the burden of proof lies with the police, speeding? burden of proof lies with you. its just very wrong.

So you would prefer a system where everyone could say "sorry , can't remember who was driving" and avoid any prosecution for motoring offences?

You get an NIP within a fortnight of the offence. How many times can you hand on heart say you wouldn't know who was driving your car on a particular data and location?

So you would prefer a system where everyone could say "sorry , can't remember who was driving" and avoid any prosecution for motoring offences?

Personally, I'd prefer a system where you got pulled-over at the scene (no arguments over who was driving) rather than one where you can carry on driving at your alleged dangerous/excessive speed (possibly) blissfully unaware that you