Yeah but I think it should start at the 10% mark, so 34 - £10, 35 - £20, 35 - £30...
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Potential increase to speed fines!
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Potential increase to speed fines!
Yeah but I think it should start at the 10% mark, so 34 - £10, 35 - £20, 35 - £30...
Dom
Dont give them ideas!!!!!! It will make it even more confusing as well as there is no need for another reason to tax motorists
Ps dave, get an AGP, £165 a yr for me as well, but loads more POWER!!!:slayer::devil:
Dont give them ideas!!!!!! It will make it even more confusing as well as there is no need for another reason to tax motorists
Ps dave, get an AGP, £165 a yr for me as well, but loads more POWER!!!:slayer::devil:
Dave's to old for an Abarth.
thought this thread was about speeding fines not road tax
im on the fence about this as well, as a person with 3 points on my license i will happily say that a £60 fine is enough.
but surely, and it is to me, that the increase should be seenas more of a deterant to speeding.
but in my books;
theres a time and a place for speeding. your doing something wrong if your getting caught.
p.s. stop moaning about road tax.. the Astra is £210 per year
im on the fence about this as well, as a person with 3 points on my license i will happily say that a £60 fine is enough.
but surely, and it is to me, that the increase should be seenas more of a deterant to speeding.
but in my books;
theres a time and a place for speeding. your doing something wrong if your getting caught.
p.s. stop moaning about road tax.. the Astra is £210 per year
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p.s. stop moaning about road tax.. the Astra is £210 per year
croma £245.00
ah she has a 16v, buggers shouldnt charge more for extra valves
Emissions based as mentioned above
It's all well and good saying that but if you see the crap public transport in places like where Dave and I live it's either drive and have a job or don't drive, don't have a job and live off the state.
Driving being a luxury is something that realistically only applies to those who don't need a car for work (students etc, yes I was one once!).
There is no Allocated limit, its only advisory and doesn't have to be followed
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If they were proposing no points and £150 per offense then I'd agree it would be trivialising it.
No, the offence still carries 3 points. It's not just the money, it's the quarter of your permission to drive being carved off that makes it a reasonable penalty.
If they were proposing no points and £150 per offense then I'd agree it would be trivialising it.
Exactly. The points are meant to be a deterrent. To increase the effectiveness regarding younger drivers, a probationary period was introduced. I see upping the fines as just another way to cream money out of motorists, and calling it a speeding deterrent is a very thin veil.
As for the 'driving is a privilege not a right' brigade - yes that's true,
but it's not as simple as that in the real world as MEP rightly said. To be honest I wish I didn't have to drive at all because of the costs and having to dodge the morons who see every B-road as a test track. But if I didn't drive I wouldn't be able to go to uni or take my kids to nursery etc etc.
To be brutally honest, £60 is sweet FA. However, the true cost is in the rising insurance, an SP30 will put up the driver's insurance premium for the next 5 years, and in most cases will cause them to be £500-£1000 further out of pocket. It's definitely just a way to get cash out of motorists, because anyone with half a brain knows that the points are enough of a deterrent.
As for road tax, you should all go to the MOT garage that my mate went to, 3 mechanics were baffled how his emissions came out as 0, despite putting a 'large rip in centre silencer' down as an advisory.. :chin: No joke, he actually had his MOT form with emissions - 0 written on it. I told him to send it off to the DVLA to claim his road tax back!
As for road tax, you should all go to the MOT garage that my mate went to, 3 mechanics were baffled how his emissions came out as 0, despite putting a 'large rip in centre silencer' down as an advisory.. :chin: No joke, he actually had his MOT form with emissions - 0 written on it. I told him to send it off to the DVLA to claim his road tax back!
An SP30 isn't likly to increase your insurance by £100 a year, mine was only £25-30 a year. It's not nessecarily the points, it's the offence code that increases insurance substantially depending upon what it is. Ie 3 points for jumping a red will see a substantial increase over an SP30.
Just tried a quote on confused.com with an SP30 and without, puts mine up £149 a year exactly. Guess everyone's different.
After trying to achieve a new land speed record in my mjet down the motorway and getting caught.
I think 3 points and £60 is enough.
Government just needs more money because they keep throwing ours away.
I think 3 points and £60 is enough.
Government just needs more money because they keep throwing ours away.
sp30 added naff all to my insurance, it must be age related
SP50 added £30 to my annual premium, I was 19 turning 20 when I got the SP50
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Clearly its not enough as so many people still speed (myself included).
If you don't want to pay the fine, don't speed (or, don't get caught).
when you got hung for murder people still murdered
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Bit different, in my opinion, anyone who goes round murdering people have a screw loose in the first place.
Not nessecarily. Hit men don't always have loose screws.
