Hm, should have contested that because it's below the threshold! Yep insurance companies want you to tell them about the courses too.
The snag is that the wiggle room (i.e. 10% + 2mph) is only an ACPO guideline. It's not a hard and fast rule. Apparently there are now circumstances in which you can be prosecuted for speeding below the 10% + 2, though I've no idea what they are.
There's plenty available on the 'net if you Google ACPO speed guidelines.
There's a bloke down our road who 'had a mate' who said he was done for doing 32 in a 30 in Worcester by a fixed camera about a dozen or so years ago.
I was under the impression that this ticket, if correct, wasn't in line with what ACPO suggested, so I thought I'd give the Speed Camera Partnership a ring to ask them what their policy was.
This was back in the days when you could actually ring a local government department and actually speak to someone actually in it, rather than every inquiry having to go through some hapless muppet fielding calls, misinterpreting what was said and passing it on via internal e-mail in a communications 'hub' somewhere.
Anyhoo, the geezer I ended up talking to - the head of the camera partnership, and a really helpful bloke - turned out to have been a big smell in the traffic police.
Remember them?
He said that West Mercia's policy was indeed 10% + 2, and that if this bloke's mate could prove to him (Mr Partnership) that he'd been done for 32 in a 30 in Worcester, Mr Partnership would pay the fine himself.
I suspect times have changed, but, like you, I think I'd have challenged this other 32 in a 30.
Incidentally, I'm pretty sure that it's illegal for a car speedometer to under-read, which is why people occasionally fall foul of the law by messing up the gearing when fiddling around with non-standard wheel sizes and tyre profiles.
It's nothing at all to do with the notion that someone hurtling by with rubber bands stretched round bin lid-sized alloys might attract the attention of a policeman idly sitting eating a sausage roll in his patrol car, of course...
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