Unlucky Speeding ticket

[bambridge]

My father is 71 and has just got his 1st ticket, he regulary drives to Kent to see family and usually at 85mph, been telling him to slow done coz your gonna get a ticket, but you know what fathers are like, Couple of weeks ago while going thro the 50mph bit of A1 near Elkesley(notts) doing 50mph on outside lane,suddenly he spots a Ambulance approaching at speed!with lights flashing so he speeds up to 60mph to get in front of cars beside him and out of way and FLASH FLASH!!

[Le S2 Audi]

Kev,

Tell hime to argue the point... I would..

[gunman]

I would too! Was the ambulance doing more than 50? If so he had to speed up as he thought it was going to hit him.

[als2]

******! touch wood ive nowt yet but i always think its a matter of time. wife just got pinched the other month, first for her too, popped out round a truck 54 in a 30! it was an ind est but cops were in layby doing folk! doh! because of the speed it had to go to court! jesus i was worried for her! got letter in yesterday (shed pleaded guilty by post with a groveling letter!) and best possible result 3points and 100 quid fine!
PHEWWWWWWWWWWW

lets see how that effects her Z4 insurance!

[Rusty]

Don't ask and you'll never find out, clean license up till now is as good an alibi as any

[bambridge]

Kev,

Tell hime to argue the point... I would..

hell sure will Ken!!
He rang the ambulance people, who said it was his fault, he did,nt have speed up to get out of the way
So he,s gonna try a get the photo to see if the ambulance is in the frame aswell.
Must admit my dads one of those guys who will complain and argue about anything, got me my settee replaced when insurance company refused to cough up!!
Have known him send back a dinner in a restuarant because the peas were to hard

[Fat Audi 80]

https://www.pepipoo.com

There is some great advice there. I managed to avoid 3 points and a fine in Scotland thanks to the advice on there...

[gunman]

even if the ambulance wasn't in his pic. if it was speeding it would have been flashed too. There should be evidence that it was there.

[QuattroFever]

thats a real bummer mate.

what was he supposed to do, slow down? or ram someone out of the way? Could be someone dying in there...no time to mess about.
You try to do the right thing and get ****ed for it, I would be fuming.

[newsh]

2 tickets in the last year, the first ones for a very long time, its getting harder as there are so many more restrictions and they can change several times on the same bit of road, and there's cameras all over the place
First one I was followed on the bike by another sports bike which just so happened to have an officer in plain clothes on it with a video camera.. Second was a van on a bridge on the M11 just after a 2 hour traffic jam

[gavs20v]

I got 3 points for going through a set of red lights 5 or 6 yrs ago.
I was parked at the front of a queue of traffic at a set of lights and an ambulance with blues and twos came up behind, i had no where to go to get out of his way so pulled forwad through the lights about two car lenghts, ambulance driver gave me a wave as he drove past and i didnt think anymore of it. Few weeks later i had a letter through the post, id been caught by the camera above the traffic lights. I appealed with extenuating circumstances (even the pic taken had the ambulance in) but got no where. That was even with a statement from the ambulance driver coroborating my statement.
Sometimes, common sense just never prevails

[K Simmonds]

That really sucks, he's got to try and argue the point.. Even it's just to get the satisfaction that the process has cost them more than your £60 in wasted administration time. I'm in currently contesting one (36 in a 30), I've lost count of the amount correspondence, must be on about the 9th letter by now and it happened in early September. Probably end up having to pay the fine but at least I've caused them as much hassle as possibly.

[Evilgoat76]

Having done ambulance work there WILL be a photo pf the bimblebus and the Trust responsible should have it. I think this has been argued a few times before. I've also heard of this where EMS veichles have pushed people over the line at red light cams.