Caught speeding in Perth
Aug 23rd 2006 | 3:52 am
#16
Tribu dei Chihuahua
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 1,414
From: Port Kennedy -near the dolphins
Re: Caught speeding in Perth
Originally Posted by Siren & Brian
So your saying that there was a speed camera and a cop within a kilometer of each other, and that the camera snapped you after the cop had stopped you for speeding???
Aug 23rd 2006 | 9:18 am
#17
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 3,973
From: Hillarys, Perth
Re: Caught speeding in Perth
Originally Posted by worzel
This may be a myth but I have heard of people writing in acknowledging their mistake and saying they won't do it again and getting let off!
There is a big campaign in WA for people to check a website to see if they are banned. I assume people have moved house etc and not received letters advising them of points so they didn't realise they were over the points limit (or so they claim). Apparently 1/3rd of people checking the site were driving illegally. I can't find the website via Google but saw it on the back of a bus today.
There is a big campaign in WA for people to check a website to see if they are banned. I assume people have moved house etc and not received letters advising them of points so they didn't realise they were over the points limit (or so they claim). Apparently 1/3rd of people checking the site were driving illegally. I can't find the website via Google but saw it on the back of a bus today.
Yeah and 1 of them was the Police Minister
Aug 23rd 2006 | 1:22 pm
#18
has lost The Game
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 8,735
From: Chippendale, Sydney
Re: Caught speeding in Perth
Originally Posted by Welshie
Only 10 over the speed?? Mmmm they usually aren't that bad. You might get away with it. I had one last week, only eight days after the incident!! I'm in NSW though.... managed to convince hubby he had my car on that day at that particular time 
Gave him a right bollocking and he believed me.....!!
Gave him a right bollocking and he believed me.....!! When I was at police training college (many years ago) we had a session about had we broken the law when we were younger, and it was meant to be a 'secure learning environment' where we could freely discusss our previous infractions without fear of reprecussions. Most people came up with "Well, I stole some apples from an orchard" and stuff like this.
Anyway, one girl piped up that her boyfriend had been caught speeding in his car by a camera, and that he would loose his licence, as he already had 9 points. So she took the fall on his behalf and took the points on her licence so that he could keep his.
Anyway, within the hour she had been discharged from the college, suspended and arrested on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice. She (and her boyfriend) were eventually fully prosecuted, found guilty, and she obviously lost her job. Not sure if she received a custodial sentence, but attempting to pervert the course of justice is something the courts take very seriously, so she may well have.
All over a speeding ticket, so there you go...
S
Aug 23rd 2006 | 1:37 pm
#19
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 13,233
Re: Caught speeding in Perth
Originally Posted by Swerv-o
Sometimes that's not really the right course of action....
When I was at police training college (many years ago) we had a session about had we broken the law when we were younger, and it was meant to be a 'secure learning environment' where we could freely discusss our previous infractions without fear of reprecussions. Most people came up with "Well, I stole some apples from an orchard" and stuff like this.
Anyway, one girl piped up that her boyfriend had been caught speeding in his car by a camera, and that he would loose his licence, as he already had 9 points. So she took the fall on his behalf and took the points on her licence so that he could keep his.
Anyway, within the hour she had been discharged from the college, suspended and arrested on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice. She (and her boyfriend) were eventually fully prosecuted, found guilty, and she obviously lost her job. Not sure if she received a custodial sentence, but attempting to pervert the course of justice is something the courts take very seriously, so she may well have.
All over a speeding ticket, so there you go...
S
When I was at police training college (many years ago) we had a session about had we broken the law when we were younger, and it was meant to be a 'secure learning environment' where we could freely discusss our previous infractions without fear of reprecussions. Most people came up with "Well, I stole some apples from an orchard" and stuff like this.
Anyway, one girl piped up that her boyfriend had been caught speeding in his car by a camera, and that he would loose his licence, as he already had 9 points. So she took the fall on his behalf and took the points on her licence so that he could keep his.
Anyway, within the hour she had been discharged from the college, suspended and arrested on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice. She (and her boyfriend) were eventually fully prosecuted, found guilty, and she obviously lost her job. Not sure if she received a custodial sentence, but attempting to pervert the course of justice is something the courts take very seriously, so she may well have.
All over a speeding ticket, so there you go...
S
the OH will have to collect her own points in future
Aug 23rd 2006 | 2:17 pm
#20
Crazy Cat Lady
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 65,493
Re: Caught speeding in Perth
Originally Posted by squeezzii
the precise distance between the two I couldnt say but it was the same stretch of road but the time on the handwritten ticket and the computer generated one was 1 min different. we did try to argue it and the bloke on the phone went to check it out as we said we felt it very unreasonable they were so closeand it couldve been a mistake surely they wouldnt have 2 speed traps on the same stretch of road? but he came back with a description of the driver as taken in the photo (it was my partner) and that they were 2 separate offences no matter how close and that both awards would stand!
