Scamera vans

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Binning an NIP is surely one of the more stupid actions one can take when receiving them. It's not spam ffs, it's a legally binding document that forms part of a criminal investigation, you can't just chuck it in the bin! I hope when your colleagues told you they did this you warned them that the Police may not find this to be acceptable. Either that or they didn't throw them away and were just bullshitting you. 

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Buy him a bottle of lube, he might need it in court.

What do we think; year ban and huuuuuge fine?

Only in an aircraft.

Well I once, many many moons ago, did an indicated 260kph in an uncle's W140 Mercedes 500SEL on an autobahn in Germany. I think that is still the fastest I have ever driven anything anywhere. It was, unsurprisingly in a car with double-glazing, a relatively unremarkable experience.

So did I, on the a46 that time

Or was it 72 ?

The greatest tragedy is France. You used to be able to hammer it through without a worry of any Gendarme hiding in the bushes. When I was a teenager we had a house in Paris and our home in the UK was a Village outside Basingstoke. The record we had was 4h40minutes door to door including the tunnel crossing. Admittedly that's when the tunnel was awesome, now you need flexi-plus to get the same speed through the system but that's a 7 hour journey today. Where's the progress

Speeds an interesting topic, if you ditched all speed limits on motorways and derestricted roads, I'd like to think that it would raise the levels of every driver using that road and all the useless buggers, those middle laners who go everywhere at 60mph, would hopefully not use the roads given there nervous disposition. It certainly works on the autobahn every time I've used it.

I imagine scameras are much like aiming a gun - at a moving object, its going to take some time to get a good bead on it and get a lock. I also think they are very often not ready/scratching their arses/drinking tea - I have had a few incidents (admittedly where I was only around the 10%+2 area, not for sure miles over) where I just failed to react quick enough (I'm an under-reacter, not over-reacter, by nature - I think it's genetic )and nothing happened. Worth slowing a bit, not worth hammering on the brakes and risking an accident.

As to the magic ton - I must admit to being very sensible about such things these days, which is a shame driving a car that can get there in 10 seconds from rest and goes from 50 to 70 in 1.9 seconds. I just worry too much about a) my job, b) my family, c) other people and d) the general ant-car sentiment these days. I spend far more time than I used to within the limit, and even on a mission on a quiet road I am careful not to do more than 25mph over the limit - the repercussions if I lost my job would just be too much. I need a trip to Germany some time.... It's also true I get a lot more pleasure from twisty roads than just vmax.

As PetrolEd says, driving in France on lovely quiet autoroutes used to be awesome. I used to cruise at a steady 120mph there, though it has to be said that you need to be very aware of other road users at that speed, on a 2 lane stretch when a 2CV pulls out to overtake a truck on a hill it can get emotional very quickly...

Few weeks ago, southbound on the A3, just around the Clandon/Send slip road onto the A3, I wondered why all of a sudden the guy in the lane next to me was braking; oh that'll be the mobile "safety camera" (on a part of a road where I've never seen an accident) at the end of the entry slip road, I hit the brakes and looked at the speedo; 86mph!

So far nothing has arrived at work.

These mobile cameras on a 3 lane carriageway, do they monitor all lanes simultaneously or 1 lane at a time?

It's been a couple of weeks now, all OK?

I am cautiously optimistic but having read about it at some length, apparently so long as the Fuzz post it within 14 days, it matters not if you receive it within 14 days.