Yes I do realise now that the speeding 'offences' are in fact the same as before but it is the 'fines' that have substantially changed and particularly so on the two higher bands . (Indeed it is the prosecuting authority in question have the new set of changed rules) having been mislead by a number of 'informed' drivers reading hyped up media stories to the contrary.liammonty wrote:From what I've read on it, totally agree with Kennatt. The offence is no different, it's the fines that have changed. Enforcement is still discretionary (within limits - no pun intended) as it always has been.kennatt wrote:]Doing just one mile an hour over 30 now becomes an offence in a 30 mile an hour zone
In our particular area the Police authorities have an extensively publicised 'project' named 'No Excuse' with regular temporary road signs 'advertising/publicising' this throughout the county. Senior police officers with name/rank have been quoted in the local press and radio that 'Project No Excuse' has an ' absolutely zero tolerance policy' and will be in particular actively targeting three areas - mobile device use , non vehicle insurance and speeding offences.. This will include the increased allocation time of mobile speed/safety camera units. I only wondered what may happen if your vehicle speedometer was mis-reading and the local force literally applied a zero tolerance policy as soon as their equipment readings gave a reading with the extra 1MPH over. What happens to this discretionary 10% margin and is it fair and reasonable to still include this in what is stated as 'zero tolerance' (I don't know)
Who actually makes the decision within the police I wonder and therefor given the authority to use the 10% discretionary factor, I wonder if there is a written guide to police authorities and is this discretion also officially extended given to magistrates?
I know the best policy is to keep within the speed limits as many have already stated but it seems many drivers of older cars particularly in our area say they are a bit concerned with the accuracy of their speedos with the interpretation of Zero Tolerance when the local press emphasise that you are breaking the speed limit in a 30mph limit as soon as you are actually recorded doing 1 mile an hour higher.