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Just to confirm what Ray has said. I find the speedo in my current van tallies almost exactly with the speed readings on my sat nav. Any speedo error seems to vary quite a bit from vehicle to vehicle, Alan.
I haven't read all the links but are we saying that. If you get done for speeding in France or any eu country you can now get points on your licence back in the uk?
That can't be right If it's true. I haven't broken the law at home and I have a uk licence?
When applying for UK car insurance my forms have asked details of any motoring offences at home or abroad - no time limit stated. Since I was caught for not stopping at a stop sign in Spain in 1968 I have always included it - I don't think I have been penalised.
If a motoring offences in Europe now get recorded by DVLA then I guess you would have to declare it to your insurer straight away or at renewal- if one didn't then maybe it could invalidate one's insurance
It says "The UK, as well as Ireland, decided earlier this month not to sign up to the directive at this stage, saying that it woud have 'imposed significant costs on the UK"
[quote="Nothing wrong with your logic if it is as you say. What I am a bit unsure of is what you meant by "so it would be interesting to see how zero tolerence above the speed limit would work legally".:
The discrepancy can apparently vary through several factors including driving uphill, tyre pressure, speedo calibration..
Based on these descrepancies i wondered how safe a 71 mph prosecution be?
[quote="Nothing wrong with your logic if it is as you say. What I am a bit unsure of is what you meant by "so it would be interesting to see how zero tolerence above the speed limit would work legally".:
The discrepancy can apparently vary through several factors including driving uphill, tyre pressure, speedo calibration..
Based on these descrepancies i wondered how safe a 71 mph prosecution be?
Despite many requests for information on UK driver forums nobody has come up with evidence that they have been accused of speeding at 1mph over the UK speed limit.
If they were and declined the offer of the FPN or Driver Awareness Course then it would be up to the CPS to take it to court and for them to convince the court beyond reasonable doubt of the offence.
In my opinion it is an acedemic discussion and I think you are far more likely to be accused of the lowest speed that would lead to the offer of a Driver Awareness Course i.e in a 30mph limit 35mph.
[quote="Despite many requests for information on UK driver forums nobody has come up with evidence that they have been accused of speeding at 1mph over the UK speed limit.
If they were and declined the offer of the FPN or Driver Awareness Course then it would be up to the CPS to take it to court and for them to convince the court beyond reasonable doubt of the offence.
In my opinion it is an acedemic discussion and I think you are far more likely to be accused of the lowest speed that would lead to the offer of a Driver Awareness Course i.e in a 30mph limit 35mph.
Rayc.
Yes and no on the academic front.. my comment was originally based on Penguin's post on the 5/01/2012. in which it says that the 10% leeway will not be applied.
I have been saddened by the almost racist comments that have appeared in these threads directed against our nearest neighbour.........
Dave
It's a shame that you're saddened Dave, it's not racism on my part, I have no fondness for a neighbour who thinks rules do not apply to them, who in days past burned truckloads of our lamb without punishment, who allow illegal immigrants to travel through their country and set up residence on our border on their side of "le" channel...
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Don't see the need. Radar detectors as far as I am aware are illegal just about everywhere Including the uk.
Sorry Barry, but Radar dectors were made legal in the UK sometime in the '90's if memory serves. I got a Snooper and then the police started cutting back on radar and laser guns and went on a spending spee buying Gatso and other fixed cameras LOL
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It's a shame that you're saddened Dave, it's not racism on my part, I have no fondness for a neighbour who thinks rules do not apply to them, who in days past burned truckloads of our lamb without punishment, who allow illegal immigrants to travel through their country and set up residence on our border on their side of "le" channel...
I don't think that I made a comment against you in person on my post, if you read through the posts preceeding my one you will probably see that I had not referred to anyone .......
but made a general comment about the nature of some of the comments on that thread.
You seem to have dragged this thread up from somewhere for some reason, I am not sure why since you had not posted on it before my comment so it cannot possibly be said that I was having a go at you.
You have come back at me, but not at others, which I find somewhat peculiar........
your comments about the French allowing potential illegal immigrants to travel across France to the coast of LA MANCHE (not Le.....) I totally agree with you - I have no understanding of why that is permitted, but presume it is just one of the many examples that I quoted;
so that point that you made about them doing their own thing I totally agree with you......
I think that most people would agree that the French do have this habit of only using rules that they want when they want them, they also seem immune to EC rulings as was evidenced by their destroying meat that had been legally imported simply because they didn't want it at the time......
So, far from differing in opinions I agree with your thoughts but still do not like any comments made against one group of people. The solution is simple, as I said, if you do not like the risks of encountering peculiar French rules, don't go to France, in exactly the same way that I would advise that if you tow a car on an A frame it makes sense to avoid going to Spain........
Anyway, have we all turned off the fixed radar warning in our Sat Navs..????? Or have some spent big bucks on getting their units reprogrammed..???
Ray.
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