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Reply 1
hey you! :P

Section 59 is kinda broad... what exactly were you stopped for?
Reply 3
"Vehicles used in manner causing alarm, distress or annoyance" You rebel! :p:
What were you doing?
Reply 4
mhmm but like I said... its a very broad thing.
I know people that have been given them for things ranging from beeping their horn past 11pm at night to spinning the wheels at traffic lights.

If you got a warning then thats the end of the matter. You have no crimminal reccord you arnt going to court and you arnt getting points. Although, if you do what ever it was you did again and get caught you might have your car taken off you. You would have to go to their impound yard and pay a release fee to get it back. Even then you wont get points on your licence unless you get charged with another section of the RTA.

Im still interested as to why you got a warning though?
You don't really seem like the kind of girl to roast the tyres at the traffic lights by bangor train station or do dohnuts in morrisons carpark....... not that I have EVER done anything like that of course. :wink:
Reply 5
Haha, he followed me from Varsity to near Penrhyn. Doing 40 in a 30 and 55 in a 40 ROFL...oops
Reply 6
Hmmm surprised he didn't get you done for doing that (as in points)
Reply 7
Yes you were bloody lucky.
I got stopped in november 2005 on the high street at 2am in the morning by a plod in a volvo with a radar gun. 36 in a 30. Gits.
Reply 8
That's why I'm panicking...
Reply 9
you got lucky.
This is wales, Nat. Dont give them the opportunity to nick you!!! And certainly dont get caught towards the end of the month when they are trying to boost their numbers.
Its the middle of the month right now which is proberbly why you only got a 59. I got done on the 29th of november which goes someway to explaining why I got an SP30 instead.
Reply 10
JC.
you got lucky.
This is wales, Nat. Dont give them the opportunity to nick you!!! And certainly dont get caught towards the end of the month when they are trying to boost their numbers.
Its the middle of the month right now which is proberbly why you only got a 59. I got done on the 29th of november which goes someway to explaining why I got an SP30 instead.

They have a quota of prosecutions they have to reach?
Reply 11
yes.
Reply 12
why is no-one berating sexysax the way that everyone berated mmc24?
Because one mean thread is enough to be going on with.
Reply 14
40 in a 30 is not always too bad, there is a dual carraige way in east manchester which is a 30 limit, no houses on it, no nothing but its a 30 limit for mad reason. Most slow drivers do 40 down there, fast ones do 50.

However 55 in a 40 is also bad. It sounds like you were generaly speeding rather than just doing it as a one off.
AT82
40 in a 30 is not always too bad, there is a dual carraige way in east manchester which is a 30 limit, no houses on it, no nothing but its a 30 limit for mad reason. Most slow drivers do 40 down there, fast ones do 50.

However 55 in a 40 is also bad. It sounds like you were generaly speeding rather than just doing it as a one off.



REally, you just contradict yourself.
A section 59 warning is not a conviction or court summons. It's not a record you have to disclose to employers / insurers.
A section 59 warning is recorded against you as a driver for 12 months.
If you get stopped again within 12 months, driving carelessly, or driving in a manner likely cause others harassment, alarm or distress, then your car gets towed and you're walking home :biggrin:. Costs you about £140 to get the car back, + £10 a day storage.
Admittedly, some bobbies give them out when they're being too lazy to fill out a ticket or a court summons, but they are a useful tool for muppets who use vehicles in a manner to compensate for a penile deficiency!

When you get some 'cruisers' who like doing handbreak turns and burnouts on public roads, you issue a warning. I've seen the same muppet 2 hours later doing the same thing... so I took their car off them :smile:
Reply 17
Thanks, why didn't I get something more though?
Maybe the equipment they were using wasn't calibrated etc. or they were just approximating and knew it would be difficult to prove? Or maybe because you're a young lady? :wink:
sexysax
Thanks, why didn't I get something more though?


Maybe you were lovely and the nice policeman didn't think you deserved court / points?:p:

Possibly the patrol car that followed you didn't have a calibrated speedo, and thus would not have been able to give you a straight out speeding ticket.

.. Police have this wonderful thing called 'discretion' (in traffic matters anyway), it means that if the crime isn't that major, and you have the right attitude, then more often than not we can choose to let it go as 'words of advice given'. A section 59 warning is nothing, probably just telling you to check your rear view mirror more often for police cars :wink: