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I had this forwarded to me ? I thought I'd send it on?. Not sure if it's right but hey it's worth Knowing!!

Speeding fines (avoid points)
Just thought I would share this with you, as you know I work in the
speeding fine department in Swindon 's Magistrate's Court and in the course of my investigation into "fines, their payment methods, and how points are automatically added against drivers licences" we discovered something very interesting "If You Get a Speeding Fine."

This has been tried and it works

I tried to send this to everyone I know. I know that for a fact is works
so if you ever get in this situation, you have an out. We discovered that
this procedure works nationwide. Read it and try it, you have nothing to
lose but the points on your license.
This is how it works: If you get a speeding ticket or went through a red
light or whatever the case may be, and you are going to get points on your
licence, then there is a method to ensure that you DO NOT get any points.
When you get your fine, send in the cheque to pay for it and if the fine
is say, ?40, then make the cheque out for ?41 or some small amount over the fine. The system will then have to send you back a cheque for the
difference, but here is the trick!
**DO NOT CASH THE REFUND****CHEQUE!!!** Throw it away!! Points are not
assessed to your licence until all financial transactions are complete. If
you do not cash the cheque, then the transactions are NOT complete.
However, the system has gotten its money and is happy and will not bother
you any more.
This information came to our attention from a very reliable computer
company that sets up the standard database used by each county's computing
system. Good luck and share this with all your friends and other family
members as well!!!

Do you think that they might have cottoned on to this fact though? Also, if you dont send your license back for ammendment and you get stopped by the police again, then it's a real serious offence. I know because my friend has been in that situation and they arrested her and were going to send her to court for sentencing! I think i'd pay the fine and sleep safely.

How terribly honest of you, Lara. Don't you want to join the wide boy brigade and encourage criminal behaviour? Keep the speeding drivers on the roads? After all, everybody does it. And if some kiddie happens to get in the way, well, that's just too bad, isn't it.

You get caught speeding, you are in the wrong. You pay your fine, serve your sentence and accept that you did wrong. Selfish pricks can set fire to as many speed cameras as they like, it doesn't change the fact that their driving is at fault.

I don't mind the fact that he wrote what he did. I just wanted people to know that it's really dodgy and can have serious repercussions. You could get your licence revoked for 3 years and all because you din't want to pay 40 quid. Daft!

I don't like speed cameras either there's loads on the A3 which are set 10 miles higher than the 50pmh limit. However, any 30mph ones are there for often a bloody obviuos reason i.e a school. That's what pisses me off when you see boy racer speeding down a road and he/she doen't know that a kid will step out from behind a car. TWATS

Nah, not in Hull.
The fixed 30mph camera's are all set on wide busy roads miles away from any schools, and in most cases houses, or other hazards and are solely there to entrap motorists and maximise revenue. Near schools are just flashing speed warning signs, which to be fair, are a lot more effective than Greed Cameras. Unfortunately the art of intelligent driving is dying, as proven by the amount of cuckooned idiots who fly past at just under 30mph when it is icy (after all their ABS anti-skid traction controlled super-braked cars will save them from the perils of aqua-planing & black ice...)

"Greed Cameras"? "....entrap motorists and maximise revenue"?

If there's a speed limit and someone breaks the limit, and gets caught, is it their fault, or just the greedy local authority?

Anyone who is stupid and unobservant enough to pass a speed camera over the speed limit is clearly not safe on the road.

Being someone who has witnessed a young girl being killed by a driver who was "only" exceeding the speed limit by 7mph, I firmly believe that there is actually a good reasons for speed limits and for their absolute enforcement.

Anyone who exceeds limits is a mindless moron who will only learn that they are exactly that, when they kill someone. Few are bright enough to work that out beforehand.

I do however totally agree with your views on people who drive even at 30 mph on black ice.

Exactly what laws are okay to break?

...it depends if you consider those that set the speed limits to be paramount in their wisdom and totally altruistic as opposed to pious and self-serving. The 'zero-tolerance' speed limit culture has created a generation of terrible drivers who haven't a clue how to actually read traffic flow and road conditions and make decisions accordingly, glued to their dashboards never looking further than the end of their bonnets. You can crow about the rights and wrongs of speed limits all you want but the bleating sheep piloting their cosseted blandmobiles aroung the our over-legislated highways are actually making our roads more dangerous places despite the soft-edged crumple-zoned airbags they call cars.
It's not an attempt to make the country a safer place for us cannon fodder to live forever, it is (like everything else these days) a business.

I'd go with the whole cameras are there to generate cash argument IF there was a camera on every stretch of motorway but there isn't.

I'd also go with the argument that people have accidents because they keep there eyes glued on the speedo but the reality is if we did this during our driving test we would have failed just as we would we would had we broken the speed limit while taking it.

I am certain we can all name roads that we feel don't have an appropriate speed limit on them but the simple reality is if your not sure stick to the 30 limit and you don't get a fine.

Everyone of us is shown how to drive correctly if we chose to ignore how to do it after we have passed the test then we should be prepared to face the consequence of our actions.