Driving Standards

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Not a mere 29 points but 229
BBC News - Driver with 229 points still holds valid licence

Flintshire driver with 229 points still holds valid licence

There are calls for a review of ban exemptions as data shows hundreds can drive with penalty points.

www.bbc.com

 

[pbsmooth]

And he’s only 26!

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

And he’s only 26!

How is he even insured?

 

[Spymaster]

How is he even insured?

He's almost certainly been telling insurance companies porkies.

 

[nick]

He's almost certainly been telling insurance companies porkies.

So not insured then (I guess?)

 

[Spymaster]

So not insured then (I guess?)

Well it's a bit of an assumption on my part but I can't imagine there'd be any insurers out there who are overly keen to take on drivers with over 200 points on their licence. I mean, it says a lot more about the individual than he's just a shit driver, doesn't it? Unless there's a lot more to this than we know, he should probably be seeking some kind of psychiatric help too. So yeah; if he's bullshitted the insurance companies about the points, chances are his insurance is invalid.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Well it's a bit of an assumption on my part but I can't imagine there'd be any insurers out there who are overly keen to take on drivers with over 200 points on their licence. I mean, it says a lot more about the individual than he's just a shit driver, doesn't it? Unless there's a lot more to this than we know, he should probably be seeking some kind of psychiatric help too. So yeah; if he's bullshitted the insurance companies about the points, chances are his insurance is invalid.

It's in Wales, so as the article states, he could have innocently been caught out when the speed limit changed from 30 to 20.


77 fucking times!

 

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So not insured then (I guess?)

I would worry about my insurance if I got just 3 points.

 

[Spymaster]

It's in Wales, so as the article states, he could have innocently been caught out when the speed limit changed from 30 to 20.


77 fucking times!

I once picked up 2 speeding tickets a day for most of the days I was on holiday in Malta. The hotel was on a road which, I found out when I got home, had 20mph limit that wasn't signed as far as I was aware, and there were cameras both ways, so I got a ticket every time I went out and every time I came back. A couple of weeks after we got home, speeding notifications from the hire company were landing on the doormat every day for ages. Fortunately they were only about 20 quid each but if that had been here, I'd have copped 30-40 points as well.

 

[nick]

I would worry about my insurance if I got just 3 points.

I guess the first 100 points are the hardest.
After that ……. Meh

 

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I once picked up 2 speeding tickets a day for most of the days I was on holiday in Malta. The hotel was on a road which, I found out when I got home, had 20mph limit that wasn't signed as far as I was aware, and there were cameras both ways, so I got a ticket every time I went out and every time I came back. A couple of weeks after we got home, speeding notifications from the hire company were landing on the doormat every day for ages. Fortunately they were only about 20 quid each but if that had been here, I'd have copped 30-40 points as well.

Given my experience of many of the roads in Malta I'm surprised you could manage to speed.

 

[Spymaster]

Given my experience of many of the roads in Malta I'm surprised you could manage to speed.

Right. And they’ve improved quite a bit in recent years. Back then they were at peak shitness.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I once picked up 2 speeding tickets a day for most of the days I was on holiday in Malta. The hotel was on a road which, I found out when I got home, had 20mph limit that wasn't signed as far as I was aware, and there were cameras both ways, so I got a ticket every time I went out and every time I came back. A couple of weeks after we got home, speeding notifications from the hire company were landing on the doormat every day for ages. Fortunately they were only about 20 quid each but if that had been here, I'd have copped 30-40 points as well.

Have never paid foreign fines, got a bunch of them in Germany during our lockdown holiday in 2020, only €15 each, but couldn't pay online, so fuck that. Never had any comeback in any country with the outstanding fines.

Yet.

 

[Spymaster]

Have never paid foreign fines, got a bunch of them in Germany during our lockdown holiday in 2020, only €15 each, but couldn't pay online, so fuck that. Never had any comeback in any country with the outstanding fines.

Yet.

I bin them if they come from the authorities but the Malta ones went to the car hire company and they just whacked my card and sent me a letter saying they’d done so.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Saw a great local news story about a new 20mph speed limit with average speed cameras catching 12,000 dimwits who can't read signs. Quoted some woman saying she'll never use that road again 'on principle' and I just love the idea that the road is going to be sorry it ever messed with her and will miss her terribly.

She also claimed she had only got caught because she didn't slow down quite enough coming off a roundabout onto the 20mph road. Which is not how average speed cameras work.

The change to 20mph was requested by the residents of the street, a narrow road commonly used as a rat run by drivers cutting a corner off to or from the main bypass.

 

[chandlerp]

Should not take much slowing down to 20 when coming off a roundabout FFS

 

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Not defending the Lady as might be a completely different setup, but in some areas of wales you can be on a 40mph road and be presented with clearway sign just before entering a roundabout
I can imagine the thinking that went in to that and its the thinking of a fucking idiot.

P.S. Fully agree with the main position of the thread, Driving standards are fucking awfull....................a mixture of no fuck given to anyone from adults of all ages and both that combined with the pure fucking ignorance from gen Z

 

[weltweit]

All very interesting these tales of the road, but what could you improve about your driving?

For me, I am an experienced driver, but at the moment I am very bad at judging the distance I have free at the back when reversing. It hasn't always been that way, at least I hadn't noticed before, but at the moment using the mirrors on my Fiesta (and my Corsa before) I think there is no more room available and when I get out of the car I see you could park a large motorcycle in the space I left to the car behind!

 

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"experienced". I've been driving for more years than I care to remember but that is no reason to get complacent. I know I'm ok because I have renewed my MIDAS certificate a few times. When that lapsed, I purposefully took an IAM test to check I was still relatively safe.
Back to driving; I'm just home following a jaunt down the M1. It was a bit foggy. There were speed restrictions in parts of either 50 or 60 MPH. I swear many drivers were still doing 80ish and there were many without rear lights on yet alone fog lights.