Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > 112.4 mph speeding THE SUMMONS

[Clippy]

Been there, 107mph on the M10, got the 14 day ban and £200 fine.

Plead guilty, attend court, get a good brief who knows and is known by the local bench, get a letter from your employer stating that anything over 3 weeks is a sacking and eat ENORMOUS amounts of humble pie.

If you don't attend they will think you don't care, regardless of any employment circumstances.

If you don't attend they can still ban you - they'll just send you a summons forcing you to attend on another day so they can tell you about it.

If you act humble, look scared, and show remorse it might just help - don't look at it as compromising your principles or being beneath you, as I doubt you really care too much about the magistrates opinion of you, you just want the smallest penalty for something you have to accept you did.

If you get a smaller ban due to your job situation, expect a bigger fine, as they'll get you one way or the other.

If your licence is clean and you have no past speeding history, play this card too. It can all help.

My brief expected 4-12 week ban and £1,000 fine and I got away lightly by by previous good record and looking ***** scared/grovelling (without sucking up too much) in the court!!!

Good luck!

G

PS. Regardless of wheat we think of the speeding laws and how they're applied, it certainly slowed me down and I try NEVER to see 3 figure speeds on the UK roads these days 'cause it's just not worth the worry/hassle/costs!