On my way to work, got flashed by a speed camera

Oh no, I'm sorry. I think something like that would be much higher in the U.S..

I've ran a yellow light a time or two where I was afraid I may have activated the camera. But I think you have to be really running a red light to get that hit.

So what, you get something in the mail now with a bill? :(
 

Remy said:
Oh no, I'm sorry. I think something like that would be much higher in the U.S..

I've ran a yellow light a time or two where I was afraid I may have activated the camera. But I think you have to be really running a red light to get that hit.

So what, you get something in the mail now with a bill? :(
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I will get photographic evidence sent via post within a month. Will have a month to pay.
 
Bretrick said:
Coming off the freeway where I had cruise control set at 80, mind wandering, failed to deactivate cruise control, got flashed at the traffic lights 500 meters down the track. 10 kmh over speed limit.
$200 fine and 2 demerits.
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Two hundred dollars, that's just over one hundred pounds. You got off lightly. Back on Christmas Eve, 1968, I was followed by a police car and got caught exceeding the 30mph limit. I never throw anything away so I can show you that I was fined seven pounds and ten shillings. We haven't had the shilling in over fifty years since our currency went metric in 1971.

Seven pounds ten shillings in today's currency allowing a deflation rate of 5.8% is nigh on three hundred pounds. It was painful and then I had to face my new wife too. Do you want to see? Our driving licence today is simply a credit card with a chip imbedded in it, but back then it was like a mini passport.

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By the way, Stratford is the Stratford in East London, not the one that's in Warwickshire where a certain playright lived.
 
Thankfully around here, we don't have those speed cameras. But we've got these big screens that tell how fast you're going. I have to say that I'm always way over what is the posted speed. The speed limit sign says 45 mph ( duh, Us Merkins don't know metric), and I'll be doing 60. Plus everybody else is doing that. I guess that's pretty unsafe.
 
Rich said:
Okay, it took me a second to swap to the metric system. I thought you were going 80 MPH down the highway off ramp and continued on cruise control down a city street!! :oops:
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80 KPH is 48 MILES per hour on the highway. On a city street in the UK that is too fast, so he gets a ticket in the mail, and a chance to go to court and dispute it, if he wants to do so. Seems a fair do to me.

In my jurisdiction here in Ontario the highway speed limit is 100 KPH, and the city speed limit is 60 or 50 KPH. School zones are 30KPH . If a Ontario driver is clocked at twice the posted speed limit ( regardless of what the limit is ) they get a Dangerous Operation charge, and if convicted a fine in the thousands of dollars. Racing or stunt driving brings a 14 day vehicle seizure, a 30 day DL suspension, and if convicted the fines will be enough to make your eyes bleed. Just try to get insurance coverage if you are convicted of stunt driving here, and of course driving without valid insurance is a Five Thousand Dollar Fine in Ontario at the minimum. JimB.
 
Slow down! Your next speeding ticket in California may come thanks to a camera

Slow down! Your next speeding ticket in California may come thanks to a camera

Although it is not ideal for intelligent beings, I'm for it given our society and culture. The Honor System never works with some people that live with Dog Eat Dog, cheat if one can unethical attitudes. The only way to change their behaviors is with pain, punishment.
 
I've never gotten a speeding ticket in my life. I don't know if we have speeding cameras around here. I hope not and hope we never do. BUT exiting from a highway is different and even I slow down for that. It's just safety common sense.

Good luck. You'll be OK.
 
Rich said:
Do you ever drive long distance?
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Yes I drove long distances as a expedite freight owner/operator in the 1990's. A typical run was to pick up in Toronto and drive direct to a location somewhere in the USA, that I had never been to before, as fast as legally possible. I spent hundreds of hours on the U.S. Inter State highway system. Set the cruise at 10 mph over the posted limit, put some music on the CD player, and watch the miles roll along.

Because I was driving a one ton cargo van, I didn't have to stop at the scales. I did have to stop every 3 hours and call a 1 800 phone number back in Toronto to report my position. This was before GPS systems. Once I was finished at the delivery point, I would go to sleep, with my pager on beep. AS a Canadian based truck, I could not do point to point deliveries within the USA, only pick up and deliver back to a location in Canada. The same rules apply to American registered trucks in Canada, no point to point deliveries within Canada, only deliveries going back into the States. JimB.
 

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