Pulled over doing 101mph on motorway


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You'll get a 6month ban and a fine of up to a grand - anything else would be an exception.

Don't bother with a solicitor, they'll do no more than you can do yourself.

Don't spout stuff about it being a clear road.......show some humility and contrition and they might take it easy.

Bad luck mate, it could happen to any of us

Not me.
 
I'm not looking for sympathy, I was caught fair and square and obviously have made a mistake.

They had me on a time distance machine over 2mins and 101 was the average speed. They said it was collaborated that day. I pretty much admitted guilt on their statement but I opted out of signing it.

Does anyone know what I should expect or has this happened to anyone else?

I am told they will send me a summons and I will have to go to court (more than likely when i am supposed to be on holiday). Does anyone know if what fine, points, ban I am likely to get? Is it worth getting a solicitor?

Any advise would be appreciated!

a fine and a short ban unless you can prove undue hardship ie you would lose your job, definately get a solicitor
 
Do you speeders that have been caught never notice Police cars behind you and adjust your driving accordingly.

If I make a conscious decison to speed them I am more than fully aware of my surroundings

But I am a class driver me like everyone says I am
 
Do you speeders that have been caught never notice Police cars behind you and adjust your driving accordingly.

If I make a conscious decison to speed them I am more than fully aware of my surroundings

But I am a class driver me like everyone says I am

Ya are anarl mind. Git classest driver ah knar.
 
I got caught on the M18 doing 107 by a car parked half way up the slip road - never even saw him. Went to court smartly dressed and pleaded guilty. Fined 350 quid and given six points. Already had three so the judge knew that I would have to slow down otherwise risked losong my licence under the totting-up procedure - she wasn't wrong.
 
I appreciate that! I hold my hands up that I was caught, however I do not believe I was driving dangerously at all. I will take my punishment but I consider myself unlucky. Especially after seeing the boy racers tearing around the town centre on both sides of the road 2 days later. They are the ones who will kill someone.

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You hold your hands up because you were caught? I can only assume that were you not caught, you'd continue to believe you'd done nothing wrong. Shocking attitude. You were driving at over 100mph, automatically rendering your driving dangerous.

And no, you are also liable to kill someone, and what a chavved up monster does on a council estate bears no relevance.

I do however agree that 70mph is far too slow a top speed for a motorway, but you can't advocate driving over 100mph.
 
Just tell the judge you are a footballer with Newcastle United and seemingly all crimes are forgiven
 
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You hold your hands up because you were caught? I can only assume that were you not caught, you'd continue to believe you'd done nothing wrong. Shocking attitude. You were driving at over 100mph, automatically rendering your driving dangerous.

And no, you are also liable to kill someone, and what a chavved up monster does on a council estate bears no relevance.

I do however agree that 70mph is far too slow a top speed for a motorway, but you can't advocate driving over 100mph.

Why not? it's just a notional high speed because of our fingers. I advocate it and wish they'd change the law to allow it.
 
We drove to manchester a couple of weeks ago. Driving down the M1 there was a BMW in front that had lights flashing in his rear clusters (undercover copper). Everyone was noticing the lights and slowing down, I don't think the coppers knew they were on. They soon caught on though when a motorbike flew down the outside lane and suddenly slowed right down about 3 cars lengths from the copper.

Why not? it's just a notional high speed because of our fingers. I advocate it and wish they'd change the law to allow it.

On a clear road 100mph doesn't seem fast at all. When you slow back down to 70 you feel like a slug
 
You'll get a 6month ban and a fine of up to a grand - anything else would be an exception.

Don't bother with a solicitor, they'll do no more than you can do yourself.

Don't spout stuff about it being a clear road.......show some humility and contrition and they might take it easy.

Bad luck mate, it could happen to any of us

It's rare to see accuracy on the SMB, especially the bit in bold. :-D

I have seen a few get off, however. If you can show that driving is essential to your job (ie, part of your job, not just the commute), or that you do an excessive amount of miles and it's a one-off, then there's a decent chance you'll get points and a fine.

I've had people caught doing 120mph who got 11 points and £2000 fine, and some who were doing 102mph who got a ban.
 
Speeding on a motorway isn't as bad a crime as speeding in built up areas imo, however over a 100 is stupid for the majority of drivers.
 
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You hold your hands up because you were caught? I can only assume that were you not caught, you'd continue to believe you'd done nothing wrong. Shocking attitude. You were driving at over 100mph, automatically rendering your driving dangerous.

And no, you are also liable to kill someone, and what a chavved up monster does on a council estate bears no relevance.

I do however agree that 70mph is far too slow a top speed for a motorway, but you can't advocate driving over 100mph.

That's rubbish, like. I'm a big advocate for an overhaul in the speed limit laws, lower and strictly enforced in built up areas, flexible on motorways.
 
It's rare to see accuracy on the SMB, especially the bit in bold. :-D

I have seen a few get off, however. If you can show that driving is essential to your job (ie, part of your job, not just the commute), or that you do an excessive amount of miles and it's a one-off, then there's a decent chance you'll get points and a fine.

I've had people caught doing 120mph who got 11 points and £2000 fine, and some who were doing 102mph who got a ban.


Even rarer to see it from me
 
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You hold your hands up because you were caught? I can only assume that were you not caught, you'd continue to believe you'd done nothing wrong. Shocking attitude. You were driving at over 100mph, automatically rendering your driving dangerous.

What a ridiculous thing to say. Aye if you're driving a bloody toaster. What is it with the 100mph psychological barrier people have when it comes to driving on a motorway?

The 70mph limit was set in 1970. 41 years ago. The average family car, say a Ford Cortina had a braking distance of almost three times that of a modern 2010 Ford Focus. The incorporation of ABS onto all cars was enough to raise the speed limit, never mind traction control, electronic stability control, brake assist plus, active yaw control, electronic brake force control... the list goes on.

There is so much misplaced onus on the actual speed people are doing these days that we are constantly staring at our speedometers instead of the road ahead of us.

Instead of teaching people to slow down they should teach people how to drive.
 
They will take work circumstances into account I'd have thought.
Oh aye and the 70mph speed limit is now ridiculous. it probably should be 80.
 
They will take work circumstances into account I'd have thought.
Oh aye and the 70mph speed limit is now ridiculous. it probably should be 80.

They don't usually take work circumstances into account.....they consider whether a ban would be overly harsh.

Why would they consider it when the person who was speeding didn't?
 
Some right hypocrites on here.

It seems the tiny minority of drivers who obey speed limits religiously all post on here. :roll:

So the OP did over 100mph, so what? Far safer to do that on a clear motorway, statistically the safest roads, than doing 40 in a 30mph zone. When anyone mentions three figure speeds, people seem to wet their pants. 100mph really isn't fast in a decent modern car.

The 70mph was brought out in the age of Ford Anglias with cross ply tyres and drum brakes. I bet it's a lot safer to do 100mph in a Ford Focus than 70 in one of those.

Even braking distances that students are taught are 40-odd years out of date. The powers that be really have done a good job in fooling people that anything over their abitrary limits is necessarily dangerous. Four decades on with better, vastly safer cars and we haven't moved on at all in terms of speed.

It's high time high speed driving (amongst other things) was a required part of the test and the motorway speed limit raised. If you can't concentrate at 100mph, you really have no business being on a motorway at all.

There should be a massive shift away from speed awareness and towards bad driving awareness. It's a very lazy and dangerous mistake to fool people into believing that legal speed = safe driving. We're breeding a nation of brainwashed, pants-wetting zombie drivers.
 
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