pmsumner

Today I received an "NIP" - A "Notice of Intended Prosecution" from North Wales Police (or Heddlu Gogledd Cymru).

You know the dual carriageway section (crawler lane) on the A5, after the bridge as you travel uphill towards McDonalds? Just after that on Sunday, I saw a van with a speed camera sign up and it's back hatch open, and noted that I was going a bit quickly, but nothing excessive. Didn't even attempt to brake - my opinion on that is "what's the point?" - if you've seen them, they've already seen you.

Apparently, I was doing 68 mph. In a 60. According to the ACPO guidelines this is the very lowest speed mentioned, for which action should be taken (not taking into account officer discretion). I wasn't doing anything stupid, I wasn't endangering anyone's life. I fully accept that I was speeding but damnit, what's the point in this, other than a money making endeavour?

( Quote from the document )

Yes I'm purposely reading this in a way that suits me :)
I'm probably not going to bother going through the process of a court appearance, if as expected I'm offered a fixed penalty. As much as I'd love to clog up the court system with irrelevant crap, the risk of being given a higher fine is just not worth it, IMO. The problem is, all the "techniques" for getting out of tickets rely on you going through the courts. Apparently the cops don't like giving away the photographic evidence without this course of action being taken...