speeders database

[Mitsuru]

Did you know that every time your car goes past a speed camera, even 1mph over the set limit, it is registered and put on a database?

You only get a ticket if you are way over the limit or, (this is the bit that I didn't know) if you receive over 10 near misses, you will be classed as a serial offender and get a ticket the next time you go just over the limit.

This is why you hear of people being done for 34mph in a 30mph limit area, whilst others doing 39 do not. You can check what has been registered against your vehicle at the following web address

http://www.i-database.co.uk

Just enter your car registration. If there is any data on your vehicle you can click on the camera window to see a copy of the photograph.
Hope it's useful.

Fingers crossed for you! Send this on to all your friends – I’m sure they’ll want the information as well! - Better safe than sorry!

[bnicho]

Sounds dodgy to me. It's blocked for me at work so I can't see it.

It may be a joke. Like the guy on the Mini group who set up a webpage as a joke and launched it on April 1st. Whatever numberplate you typed in showed up as doing 67mph in a 50 zone on some particular motorway the weekend before the current date.

[TerryG]

Another old wives tale.
APCO guidelines prohibit that and they can only give you a ticket if you are over by 10% +2mph.

[scimagain]

It's some prat playing silly B's.
Tried entering my cars number, result was that it had been caught in Durham on the 29th of last month. Clever, the car has never been in the north east, it is in fact locked up in a garage 300 miles away and has been for a good number of weeks.
With the reference to the area, could someone have hacked into registration details / owners location?
I know for certain that my car has never been north of the home counties for at least seven years.

[Willy Eckerslyke]

Seems that the threepenny bit cabbed, Morris lorry (YUV555) my father scrapped 30 years ago has been nabbed doing 39mph in a 30 zone on
Coldhams Lane, wherever that is.
The photo looks about right though. :lol:

[suffolkpete]

I looked up the domain name, and it's a company in Portsmouth. I tried it with the number of a car that had been scrapped 20 years ago and it said it had been seen in Tidworth last Wednesday. If you click on the link for the image, you will see it's just some prat's idea of a joke.

[JPB]

...
APCO guidelines prohibit that and they can only give you a ticket if you are over by 10% +2mph.

Not the case where the service for the area runs a zero tolerance policy on speeding. My speed awareness course was offered - and accepted - as an alternative to my accepting 3 points, but I still had the £60.35 fine (or "course fee" as they then prefer it to be expressed) for my offence. The pictures, the summons and all other related correspondence stated that my speed was 31.7mph, the limit was 30mph.
Ultimately I had the last laugh as my licence, on its return to me after being away to have the marker applied, suddenly lost the restriction that I've had on there since 2007, it's now valid until my 70th birthday, no longer prohibits my driving manual vehicles over 550Kg with four wheels and bike entitlement has also reappeared! So that's a result.

But I agree about that link being some weird sort of "joke". hah hah, 'scuse me while I stitch my splitting sides.

[rich.]

http://www.i-database.co.uk/check.php

this was my honda acty pickup max speed 53 mph... its been scrapped over 20 years. when i checked it had been doing 89 in a 70

[TerryG]

You can chalange the 31.7mph in court as your speedometer is only required to be accurate to within 10%, likewise where they are having children hold the guns and pull you over you can tell them to sit and swivel as they are not old enough to operate the equipment and are not qualified in it's correct usage.

Only 89?!?! put your foot down!

http://neilmonnery.co.uk/wp-content/upl ... ornado.jpg
(I suspect that is also a joke but it's a giggle anyway)

or this which is true
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rsche.html

[harvey]

You can chalange the 31.7mph in court as your speedometer is only required to be accurate to within 10%,

That's true in that case, but I would clarify it by saying that the +-10% is only valid at 30mph, it won't count for anything if you're doing 77 in a 70