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Originally Posted by andyl
But you can't have arbitrary speed limits; they would be unenforceable. Tell you what though if you get done for doing 31 in a 30, I'll pay the fine for you  As I said before I agree with action the copper took against Russ but if you look at that example, Russ was nearly 15% over the speed limit; that's quite a margin really. Do 40 in a 30 - a far worse crime in my book - and you are more than 30% over the speed limit. |
I agree, arbitrary speed limits are neither feasible nor practical. And hoping that a magistrate will be interested enough to even listen to what one has to say is pure fantasy. Even before my own experience I had heard horror stories. Maybe the GAtsoS themselves are less of a problem than the scale of fines and the handling of cases by the courts? I would have second thoughts about going to court now, even if I had the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury as witnesses that I was 1000 miles away! I got the impression that I was just another motorist chancing his arm, in their eyes.