Non payment of speeding fine
Oct 18th 2009, 10:20 am
#31
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Re: Non payment of speeding fine
well ........are you sitting comfortably..................
Western Australia, Hot FM 95.7 think it was the breakfast programme Chippy and Nae (cos it was on on way to work)
Chippy said that he had heard you had to admit to speeding before they could give fine SOOO he tested it............
.........took his mum out for drive in known spot for police soeed cameras, driving over limit BUT NOT CRAZY. He got stopped. Stayed calm and refused to believe he was speeding. (all time his mum next to him gettin more and more embarrassed) apparently at the end of it all he just got a warnign to keep and eye on his speed. i will go look at the website see if i can find a link
Western Australia, Hot FM 95.7 think it was the breakfast programme Chippy and Nae (cos it was on on way to work)
Chippy said that he had heard you had to admit to speeding before they could give fine SOOO he tested it............
.........took his mum out for drive in known spot for police soeed cameras, driving over limit BUT NOT CRAZY. He got stopped. Stayed calm and refused to believe he was speeding. (all time his mum next to him gettin more and more embarrassed) apparently at the end of it all he just got a warnign to keep and eye on his speed. i will go look at the website see if i can find a link
Oct 18th 2009, 10:32 am
#32
...giving optimism a go?!
Joined: Jun 2007
Location: Brisbane (leafy, hilly western suburbs)
Posts: 2,202
Re: Non payment of speeding fine
Just to clarify gettign 12 points does nto mean you have to lose your licence. You have a choice:
1) Lose your licence for 3 months (and get it back clean 0 points)
2) Have a 12 month 'good behaviour period' whereby you must NOT get any points. Any violation at allresults in a full 12 month licence loss.
When faced with the choice myself (and I'm not suggesting you do the same - it was wreckless and apalling) I chose to take the 3 month ban, I went on holiday for 6 weeks to the UK (where my UK licence still functions) and minimised my very careful driving for the remaining 6 weeks.
I figured that there was no chance whatsoever of me NOT driving past a police car for 12 months (and at that stage I'd worked out that driving past a police car was all that was required to get points since I'd picked up 12 points in 9 months) - but I *might* be able to go 6 weeks without getting pinged.... It worked and actually in the 10 years since then I have only been done for speeding once (I got MUCH better at spotting those parked vans!).
1) Lose your licence for 3 months (and get it back clean 0 points)
2) Have a 12 month 'good behaviour period' whereby you must NOT get any points. Any violation at allresults in a full 12 month licence loss.
When faced with the choice myself (and I'm not suggesting you do the same - it was wreckless and apalling) I chose to take the 3 month ban, I went on holiday for 6 weeks to the UK (where my UK licence still functions) and minimised my very careful driving for the remaining 6 weeks.
I figured that there was no chance whatsoever of me NOT driving past a police car for 12 months (and at that stage I'd worked out that driving past a police car was all that was required to get points since I'd picked up 12 points in 9 months) - but I *might* be able to go 6 weeks without getting pinged.... It worked and actually in the 10 years since then I have only been done for speeding once (I got MUCH better at spotting those parked vans!).
Oct 20th 2009, 9:53 am
#33
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Location: The Magic Roundabout
Posts: 8,141
Re: Non payment of speeding fine
What people are up to down south to avoid losing the rest of their demerit points.....http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/s...55-953,00.html
Oct 20th 2009, 12:03 pm
#34
And YOU'RE paying for it!
Joined: May 2007
Location: kipper tie?
Posts: 2,328
Re: Non payment of speeding fine
This is true, most cops in Oz have hidden microphones and a recorder and their conversation after they stop you is all aimed at getting to admit you were speeding....that way there can be no court issues about calibration of the speed gun, how the officer was using it etc. Just don't admit it no matter how many ways they try to ask you the same question.
