Your driving offence stories

[Andy1608]

Got chased by a marked subaru police car (unknowingly) for about 6 miles when I was riding my R1, he was parked just past menwith hill, Harrogate in the lane on the left. I didn't see him as I was stupidly (he says now been older and wiser) chasing down the lad in front.
Obviously I pulled over when he did get behind me, he had a very red head and was a bit of an angry chap towards me to say the least. Wasn't very impressed with me when I answered I was only doing 60 mph. Think his words went a long the lines of 'get in my ******* police car, I'm gonna have you for this' before reminding me that I've definitely missed a 1 from that speed.
So anyway that wasted half an hour of my life getting a ticking off, a promise of a court appearance and to top it off the lads I was riding with, 1 of them decided to take a right hand corner too fast later on in the day whilst I was behind him. This resulted in him losing control, hitting a kirb and going **** over tit, luckily he came off better than the bike.
As you can imagine I received an invitation to court, well more than one in fact. In the end it took 4 or 5 court appearances at Harrogate court over a year to charge me.
Luckily for me at the time it was what he could prove and speed wasn't it, got points and fine for overtaking on a double white line in the end.
That did take me up to 11 in total though (all bike offences) so I grew up a bit, stopped been a **** on a bike and sold the bike soon after.
never been one for driving cars overally fast cause always had bikes and that's how I got my adrenalin fix plus on a bike I always had the general attitude of 'ill only kill myself'.
(Please note my past tense as I no longer have the mentality of a selfish **** and have managed to grow up)

 

[smk82]

In 15 years of driving, I've only had the misfortune to be pulled over by the old bill once. It was 2006, and I was coming back from North London ( I was living near Guildford at the time). It was late (about 11.30-12ish), so practically no traffic on the M25 so I was driving along at ~80ish, not a ridiculous speed for that time in the morning I felt as I could have gone faster as there was no-one around, but I wasn't in a particular hurry.

Pulled off onto the A3 on the way home and noticed another car follow me, didn't really pay much attention to the fact it then followed me for the next 6 -10 miles (I had slowed down a bit then, but still doing over 70), then just as i pull into the side road where I was living (it was a country bed sit, so very little other houses or stuff around - not a built up area), the blue lights go on which suprised me just a tad.. Thinking now "oh c**p" I pulled over, and the cops asked me out of the car, and then made to stand there freezing my **s of (it was early feb and I was only in a shirt!) while I was breathalysed and they explained that they'd been following me "blah blah". It wasn't explained why they took so long to pull me over suprisingly if they thought I was speeding excessively.

After the breatherlyser came back negative (unsuprisingly), the cop commented that he was letting me off, as he felt the speed wasn't unreasonable for the conditions/time of night/lack of traffic and that I wasn't driving like a complete idiot.. Huge sigh of relief.. and that was that.

 

[AdamB8]

A few years back... On the A6 in Lancashire... Just bought a 1.8 TDCi Mondeo Titanium (Don't know what I was thinking - Don't ask!!) and was putting all of its 125 horsepowers to use overtaking slower vehicles... Found a nice straight, no oncoming vehicles, full view ahead, no other vehicles waiting at junctions so went for a three car overtake. Was flawless. Except the middle vehicle was an unmarked. Blue lights, sirens, absolutely gutted... If getting pulled over wasn't bad, I then had the embarrassment of all the overtaken vehicles passing beeping their horns and gesticulating at me as they passed.

Got a fixed £60 fine and three points.. Then got a letter a few days later offering me a driver awareness course.. Choose the later and kept a clean license! See how long that lasts with the A4!

 

[Bbflex]

Amongst my pleather of traffic offences from when I was younger, one funny'ish one was when I first started driving cars legally after riding bikes since I was 13/14 I eventually had to grow up and commit to work so at 22 I got my car licence and had a lovely mk5 escort 3dr, 1.4 of pure carbed CVH muscle, I did a home made brake upgrade using mk2 mondo calipers and discs, as you can imagine a car weighing less than 950kg iirc with wider alloys and the finest PI suspension it did stop on a sixpence

I had an ex girlfriend from Derby and one night driving back down the a38 I was coming up to an island still doing 70 (it also cornered on rails for a 91 escort) light had just flicked to Amber and I shot through, I was over the White line by the time it turned red, anyway what I didn't notice was the marked Volvo waiting at the lights on the island, they seen me go through then chased after me, as I came up to another set of lights on the island they where clearly red so as I'm still at about 70mph iv slammed my brakes on and stopped at the lights, I look in my rear view mirror and see this marked Volvo suddenly appeared behind me with its hazards on

I sat there thinking they can't pull me over with there hazards on as they are in a marked car lol! When I looked closely I could also see them picking bits of paper up off the dash and generally sorting themselves out, they followed me down the m6 for a few miles I tried to be sneaky and hide inbetween two lorrys but they still pulled me over, they said i ran a red light, I could see these two where proper jobsworth and that I just couldn't be ***** with the arguing or hassle of going to court so just kept quiet hoping they'd just let me off as I was polite, they didn't and they gave me 3 points and £60 fine, I just swallowed it tbh as it didn't effect my insurance too much it was supposed to be £4000 Tpft because of my previous convictions.

Anyway I sat and thought about the hazard thing and then remembered when the abs kicks in on the then new volvos the hazards came on automatically to warn others that paired with picking the paper up off the dash they obviously thought I was going to tear through the second set of lights chased after me, then I stamped on the anchors and they nearly rear ended me, obviously ****** off by being shown up by a mear mortal like myself they where never going to just tell me off lol! That was the only points I ever received after going "straight"

 

[Crazyfool]

A few years back... On the A6 in Lancashire... Just bought a 1.8 TDCi Mondeo Titanium (Don't know what I was thinking - Don't ask!!) and was putting all of its 125 horsepowers to use overtaking slower vehicles... Found a nice straight, no oncoming vehicles, full view ahead, no other vehicles waiting at junctions so went for a three car overtake. Was flawless. Except the middle vehicle was an unmarked. Blue lights, sirens, absolutely gutted... If getting pulled over wasn't bad, I then had the embarrassment of all the overtaken vehicles passing beeping their horns and gesticulating at me as they passed.

Got a fixed £60 fine and three points.. Then got a letter a few days later offering me a driver awareness course.. Choose the later and kept a clean license! See how long that lasts with the A4!

I do it all the time on the A702!

 

[Geordie1970]

I drove home from work a few years back in the fog after a nightshift.Went to work at 9pm for my next shift and was pulled over by the police and fined £60 for having my fog lights on!!!! this was around the time xenons were becoming popular and everyone was being blinded by blue fecking lights.

 

[RS4 Cookie]

November 2000 I was out with two mates for a run on the bikes, at the time I had a 'K' plate CBR900RR or a "Fireblade" as they were more commonly known. We pulled in for fuel on the A9 Forfar bypass, my mates both left the garage a good minute in front of me so it was upto me to play catch up. At the time I was wearing Fluorescent Orange and Black leathers so it wasn't easy to miss me. As I left the garage I cracked the throttle open and up came the front wheel, so I kept it up as long as I could, it felt like quarter of a mile but was only about a hundred yards or so, the front wheel touched down and I was off like a whippet out the traps, head down trying to catch up with my mates, at the time I didn't realise just how fast I was going...but the traffic cops behind... did, they followed me for approx. 9 mls and I only noticed them as I slowed down coming into Dundee, by this time they're along side me with the blue lights flashing, as I glanced to my right....there they were in a fully marked T5 with the cop in the passenger seat frantically pointing for me to pull over...which I promptly did. They were both out the car pretty quick and of coarse the first question asked was "In a hurry are we sir" and I thought '****, they're really ****** at me' the next question was "Do you know how fast you were travelling sir" I thought dual carrigeway with 70 limit...so I said "80-85" he replied "eeeh no, you were travelling a bit quicker than that sir, would you like to take a seat in the back of the car for a moment" So I'm in the back of the traffic motor and the driver says "There's your speed there" I'm scanning the whole dash by this time and couldn't see it anywhere so I asked "Where about" he then pointed to this screen which was no bigger than a box of swan vestas matches and said "That's it there" I thought I was looking at a digital clock...147.6 mph...it was then I thought "****, this is bad" So after the giving of details part they let me out the back of the car and I'm thinking "Thank **** they didn't see the wheelie" as there was no mention of it, one of them then pipes up "Your number plate is illegal sir, we'll need to take it" (it was letter box size and style instead of the usuall air brake size plate on bikes) So I then said "If you take the plate, how am I to get home" to which he said "We're going to go and get a cuppa for ten minutes) at that point I felt like smacking them but obviously didn't. So they went for their "Cuppa" and I blasted down the road heading for home setting off two or three camera's on the way. A week or so later the summons arrived through my letterbox, I was being charged with Dangerous driving, so i got a run upto the court on the due date and reported to the clerk of the court to which he asked "Where's your solicitor" I said I didn't have one, he then bowed his head forward and looked at me over the top of his glasses and said "Your charged with Dangerous Driving and you don't have a solicitor, do you realise the risks here" he then got the duty solicitor who luckily wasn't busy at that particular time to take my case. End result was a one year ban, four hundred pound fine ,no points and would have to sit a Double length driving test at the end of my ban to get Licence back. It was a long year..

 

[Shrek5]

Youch, that's a proper run in!

 

[Dtwm1]

When i was 19 I was stopped in the m6 toll averaging 99.2 over 2 miles, it was an unmarked 5 series. The cooper was sound and just said "I can't let it go unpunished but I'm not going to ruin your life or bank account but if your going to speed on here at least try and blend in and get an audi or bmw not a bight blue saxo vts" he gave me a £60 fine and 3 points.

Also I work for a hire car company, amongst all the crap vauxhalls he have a lot of bmw's, jags and range rovers. We cover a lot of the Cotswolds so on occasion we have Bentley's, amg mercs etc in too. Ive lost count the number of times I've been stopped because I don't 'look right' being 21 (22 now) in a range rover Westminster. Especially at weekends in a 530d etc wearing shorts and a tee shirt.

 

[kev.s]

i met the best cops ever.. long story short..

was happily "making progress" on my bike, when the high viz vest caught my eye, looked down and sat at 90mph, in 60 zone. pulled over, 2 biker cops their quote was "if it had been our traffic buddies, this (my licence) would have been binned, but us (the biker cops) are just going to lecture you on the speed limit while the rush hour traffic goes by and you look a bit sheepish" 10 mins later, i'm on my way, no points , no fine, a cheery wave and away... still see the guys and regular track events... result

 

[WeeDram]

Not really a driving offence, but... a few years ago we were on holiday in Germany, traveling along a secondary road in our rented Mercedes. We crested a hill and saw the traffic ahead coming to a stop. There was a phalanx of black vans with tinted windows parked along the side of the road. Every car was being pulled over into a parking area and armed men in black uniforms were searching vehicles, people's luggage strewn about, frightened children clinging to their parents.

What the hell is going on, I thought. I pull up to this jack-booted Commander standing in the middle of the road and he motions at me to lower the window. Now, my German vocabulary is pretty much limited to "Ein Bier, bitte" so I knew this wasn't going to be fun.

Commander: "Achtungvasserübergesselsenschafthein?!" (or words to that effect)
Me: Blank look. Awkward silence, staring Commander.

Me: "Sprechen sie Englisch?"
Commander: "Nein."

Another awkward silence. Then he waves me through! All the other drivers watch incredulously as I carry on my merry way while their cars are being torn apart.

The moral of the story is you can sometimes get off easy if you don't speak the language. We were not aware at the time but it turned out Pope Benedict was paying a visit to Munich and this was a security checkpoint. I could have been carrying a grenade launcher for all that cop knew...(of course I wasn't, but you never know)