How often do you get a speeding fine?

[AdzT3-146]

1 Speeding fine so far for me, had my licence for 2 and a half years.

[F6T]

I can't believe how many people say they were never caught! - that's amazing.

I average out one every couple of years. I got a few when I first started. then I had about 4 years with nothing until the 60 zones changed into 50 zones. When that happened I got 3 speed camera infringements within 2 weeks! 61, 62, and 65. I've only had one more since then - got 11 out of 12 points now.

It's not too bad in Tassie - we get a nice 10% buffer to allow for speedo variances and they always use the same spots (to death mind you) so keeping it to a minimum isn't too hard.

[TUF514]

i havent been done in 20 months. :( thats how long ive been without a licence.

note for you kids - dont speed........ walking and being taxied around is GAAAAAY!

before that, um 7 fines in about 6 months. :(

[Charliewool]

I had NEVER lost a point!... So I contested this one.. (below)
In the SAME mail as their "withdrawal" (also below) there was another for 56 in a 50!

Penalty Review Board 27th Nov 2006
Traffic Camera Office
GPO 1916
Melbourne 3000

Obligation Number 0628047552

Dear Sirs,
My name is”Charliewool”; I am 50 years of age and hold Victorian driving licence number 02518****
On Friday 27th October a roadside speed camera in Blackshaws Rd Altona North detected me allegedly traveling at 67km/h in a posted 60km/h area.
Whilst admitting that I must have irresponsibly been traveling over the posted speed limit to receive this penalty, I would also like to point out what a totally out of character offence this is for me.
I operate a small engineering business in Laverton, and spend a great deal of time driving, covering around 40,000 Kms per year.
From memory, this is the first time I have been detected by any form of safety speed device in this or any state of Australia.
I consider myself a mature and very safety conscious driver. I am astutely aware of the dangers of traveling at unsafe or dangerous speed along with the tragedy that accompanies motor accident trauma.
All I can put the above offence down to was a momentary lapse in my concentration, for which I am extremely ashamed and remorseful for.
I would sincerely ask the possibility of having this penalty reduced to an official warning due to it being such an out of character offence.

Yours truly;
Charliewool


The reply...

Tuesday 5th Dec
Traffic Camera Office
Penalty Review Section

Traffic Infringement withdrawal notice and official warning
Dear Sir.. I refer to traffic infringement notice number ***** issued to you on 3/11/2006
On perusal of all the available evidence, I am satisfied that the offence was committed, however in consideration of all matters raised, no further action will be taken against you in this matter.
The traffic infringement notice has been withdrawn in favour of this official warning.
If you have paid the penalty and any prescribed costs a refund will be forwarded to you in due course. If you haven't, disregard the amount on the infringement notice.
Any demerit points associated with this offence will be cancelled.
Yours faithfully & a merry christmas.
Shelly Baker.
Senior Constable *****
Traffic Camera Office

[Tiapan]

i have been driving four years, had never been done until my radar detector got stolen :( suddenly my mailbox was getting letters with the dreaded O.H.M.S. written on the top!!!
3 redlight fines put me out $450 and 9 demerits....so i was sort of good after that, then just got done doing 62km over the limit and lost my licence :( hahha to me for being dumb

[JONONUT]

Originally Posted by charliewool

I had NEVER lost a point!... So I contested this one.. (below)
In the SAME mail as their "withdrawal" (also below) there was another for 56 in a 50!

Penalty Review Board 27th Nov 2006
Traffic Camera Office
GPO 1916
Melbourne 3000

Obligation Number 0628047552

Dear Sirs,
My name is”Charliewool”; I am 50 years of age and hold Victorian driving licence number 02518****
On Friday 27th October a roadside speed camera in Blackshaws Rd Altona North detected me allegedly traveling at 67km/h in a posted 60km/h area.
Whilst admitting that I must have irresponsibly been traveling over the posted speed limit to receive this penalty, I would also like to point out what a totally out of character offence this is for me.
I operate a small engineering business in Laverton, and spend a great deal of time driving, covering around 40,000 Kms per year.
From memory, this is the first time I have been detected by any form of safety speed device in this or any state of Australia.
I consider myself a mature and very safety conscious driver. I am astutely aware of the dangers of traveling at unsafe or dangerous speed along with the tragedy that accompanies motor accident trauma.
All I can put the above offence down to was a momentary lapse in my concentration, for which I am extremely ashamed and remorseful for.
I would sincerely ask the possibility of having this penalty reduced to an official warning due to it being such an out of character offence.

Yours truly;
Charliewool


The reply...

Tuesday 5th Dec
Traffic Camera Office
Penalty Review Section

Traffic Infringement withdrawal notice and official warning
Dear Sir.. I refer to traffic infringement notice number ***** issued to you on 3/11/2006
On perusal of all the available evidence, I am satisfied that the offence was committed, however in consideration of all matters raised, no further action will be taken against you in this matter.
The traffic infringement notice has been withdrawn in favour of this official warning.
If you have paid the penalty and any prescribed costs a refund will be forwarded to you in due course. If you haven't, disregard the amount on the infringement notice.
Any demerit points associated with this offence will be cancelled.
Yours faithfully & a merry christmas.
Shelly Baker.
Senior Constable *****
Traffic Camera Office

You broke the law and had it retracted I can't see any justice in that. Fair enough you have had many years of experience but you still were driving at unsafe speed according to the state, why should one individual be treated any different to another ?.

[pertuan]

Been driving for 8 years now. Never gotten one. But then again, I dont speed 95% of the time.

[F6 TORNADO]

in 4 years of driving i have been to court 4 appeal against drivers licence suspension for exceed speed limit by more than 40k's 8 points and $745.00 later i won and got a good driving behaviour for a year than by a speen camera exceed speed limit by more than 10k's 1 point and $100 later, then exceed speed limit by more than 30k's 4 points $365 later and whent back on a good driving behaviour for a year then got court driving on a nature strip other than permitted no pionts and $45 later and that was just on my p's plates iv been on my opens for one year and iv been done for exceed speed limit by more than 30k's 6 points and $365 later and exceed speed limit by more than 21k's 4 points and $295 later now im back on a good driving behaviour for a year it ends december this year 2007

[Tiapan]

damn! your gonna kill someone! nice record

[F6 TORNADO]

i only do it when theres no cars on the road and i don'd do anything if i have a passenger

[joe260]

i just got one not long ago doing 121km in a 80 zone i usually get a couple a year... cant help em i guess. i should be on my opens already last year had my licence suspended... well this is my 3rd time

[james22]

Update: I picked once a year.

Last week I got my yearly fine $77 - 3 points - Speed 15kph & under. DOH!!!!

[bjr22n_]

i have been stopped 8 times since getting my licence in 2002.

3 x Random breath test
2 x not displaying P-plates (when i was on my full licence 2 months ago and 2weeks ago)
3 x speeding, (fined once - on red P-plates 127kms (90) at Bookham, and let off twice)

arh the troubles of the police knowing you...

[janek]

Originally Posted by Casper

on average I'd say I have 1 bad year in 4. 2 years ago was the bad year. Nothing for years before it, nothing for the 2 years after.. 9 points in the 1 bad year though. Go figure.

You hoon

i copped a fine on my red p's back in NSW in 02... 152 on the highway- that sucked. and once this year in bris... i was being a smartass and playing chicken with a speedbus. Guess who lost :(

For the record, i am the only person i know who managed to lose 12 points in one offense :P Young and stupid days in my corona

[3vXT]

I've been pulled over more than a few times, 5 or 10k's over several times, but i've never copped a fine.

[duncanwhite]

I'm 21 and have never got a fine.

[exrtnz]

I havent got one since I got my saftey warning device :evil3:

[2002xr6]

Ive only been driving for about a year and had 3 fines and just lost it for a year

[tex]

Too often.

But not as many as my wife. If I get nailed in the next 12 months I'm walking, and if my wife does in the next 2 years she's walking.... driving habbits will need review.

Between us we average about 3 tickets a year....

The only mitigating circumstance is that both of us drive in excess of 35k each year.

[bingoTE50]

Every time I get a new car . $$^%^& it ... 2 weeks ago .....

[Auslandau]

......yesterday. 86km in an 80 zone. 500 metres to the tunnel on the freeway! A Sunday morning at 7.00AM. Car is miles per hour and sitting on 50. I am such a menace to society!!!!!!! :togo:

If I was doing 80 in peak hour, pouring rain, winding in and out of traffic, I wouldnt get fined!!!!! :



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[TZENU]

Dave the domain tunnel screwed me too.!!!... 87k but that was back in 2001 and was only worth 120bucks and 1 point back then...

[ELtim]

I don't speed very much at all, so never. I can't afford to lose my license.

[TEaaron]

I've never got a fine of any kind.

I've been pulled over for hooning but got let off with a warning.

[Nostalgia]

3 days after getting my P's i got done for speeding, i didnt have my license on me and obscured number plate. I copped a fine for each of these offences. The next night i got a canary from the TOG's patrolling Geelong. 6 months later i had my most recent speeding fine. 78 in a 60 zone. I was 19 when all this happened. Im now 32 and havent had any fine at all since. Am i proud of myself ? Yes. Am i lucky ? Hell yeah.

[Creampuff]

Never lost my license in 25 years but, I seem to lose points every 2 years.

[troppo]

4 speeding tickets in 20 years so that'll be every 5 for me.
First one was on my P's a week after I first moved to Adelaide to do my apprenticeship. I waited ages for a gap and upset people behind me so I took a small gap and floored it. 200m later I got pulled over for 88 in an 80 zone.
The last one was a couple of years ago...107 in a 100 zone

[MITCHAY]

I got my cherry popped a few months ago. 105 in an 80km/h. Meh I was looking everywhere for cops but this guy came down an on ramp. Unlucky but caught fair and square, I just wish he wasn't such a toss :

[Geez Louise]

Knock on wood...I haven't had a fine in over 7yrs!! Before that it was probably 5 years!