After looking at a post about speedometers I was wondering, as most Yeti owners are over 30 how many speeding tickets they have acquired over the years,I don't want to tempt providence but I think I've had about 3,all in works vehicles and has anybody never had one?or attended a speed awareness course?

Edited 24 November, 20169 yr by Sad555

Whats speeding? sounds as if I'd enjoy it.

No tickets then gumdrop?

Two but none in a Yeti

Passed my test in 1979 and owned a car since 1982. No speeding tickets or parking offences.

Stopped once by Police at 11:30 at night in 1983. He drove off fairly sharp when I informed him he had a headlamp out.

 

Colin

Passed my test in 1962. No speeding or other motoring offences ever.

I had one about 30 years ago (80mph on motorway), but none since, and certainly none in the Yeti .

Only 1, in 1967. Allegedly doing 49 to 53 mph on an A road in a 5cwt Ford Anglia van when commercial vehicles were limited to 40 mph.

Err,

 

1 speeding fine on my motorbike,

1 speed awareness course from driving in the Octavia

1 pull for a chat on a different motorbike

 

Nothing with the Yeti. Yet

Passed my test in 1962. No speeding or other motoring offences ever.

Snap!

 

Jim

+1

Zero in 11 years of driving.

My most interesting was when I lived in Norway. On a road that I new, but was unaware the limit had recently been reduced from 80kph to 60kph, so it was an honest mistake. It was a hand held radar gun. As I stopped his first question was "How much do you earn"? They set the fine according to income!  

Made a similar mistake in the UK, missed the 30 sign, though I was in 40mph. As I was clocked at 36mph I took the Speed Awareness option. It was very interesting and has certainly focused my mind on speed. After driving for 60yrs now, no current points at present [touch wood]  I try to keep my Sat Nav. on most of the time as the Speed Limit indication is sometimes very useful.

Fifty years and none yet, but that's more due to good fortune than anything else. I suppose this may well enter the category 'famous last words'! :think: 

I had to drive a Yeti for 50 miles in reduced power mode once, there was no chance of me getting a speeding ticket and coincidentally enough the same applied to everyone stuck behind me.

 

Nothing for me in 33 years of driving, which is a surprise as 30 years ago I wouldn't have given a second thought to driving at well over the speed limit.

1 in approximately 1985. (Started driving in 1970)

Another reason not to freewheel?.

Zero since starting to drive in 1961

Zero since starting to drive in 1961

I was a bit of a slow learner ))

Given that the 'other' Yeti speedo thread to which the OP refers has gone a little 'techy' and that most posters in this thread are guilt free, I wonder in fact whether anyone has ever been caught speeding in a Yeti?

Is this because the Yeti is invisible to radar and immune to Trigonometry? Perhaps Stealth technology is not worth further investment because Skoda already have the perfect solution....

After 4 and a half years with a Subaru Impreza turbo = no tickets.

After 4 months in the Yeti = 1 ticket! :-(

^^^^ applying the theory that the less time spent on the road - the safer, is one excuse.

Still waiting on my Yeti arriving but thus far in 33 years of driving, no tickets at all, touching wood rapidly!

 

Think it's really a bit of luck this kind of thing really, I've known of more than a few people who've been given speeding tickets by policemen who

have shall we say hidden themselves from plain sight, on one occasion one elderly relative got one after being caught speeding by a policeman

crouched down in a trench which was there as part of ongoing roadworks near Glasgow! Loads of people have been caught just on the edge of 

leaving a built up area, accelerating a wee bit too quickly after they pass the last houses but not unfortunately for them technically in the faster 

speed zone. The police often sit on the bridges on the motorway to Stirling pointing their speed guns a long way down the road catching out the

unwary drivers there and also on the artificially low speed limit section at Cumbernauld which is the start of the A73, 40 mph dual carriageway 

off the motorway, easy pickings for them methinks.

I would like to think it was a matter of luck but from the replys on here there does appear to be some consistency in some drivers being on the roads a lifetime with picking up a ticket and I don't think that can be all "luck" over such a long period.

Don't drive a Yeti, but no tickets for moving traffic offences in 36 years.