So last September i have been doing roadtrip from Scotland to Heathrow for a week. Tetiba2 balik rmh ada letter with Cumbria stamp on my doorstep. It was a notice of intended prosecution. Apparently my car was caught speeding 36mph in 30mph area and they want to know who is driving it. You will get 3 point for speeding and 6 point if you didn't response. There is option to take speed awareness class if your speed is within acceptable violation and you haven't take the class in the past 3 years. For 30mph, it will be below 42mph (it is not free btw). I have been googled and there is this guy who get 2 speeding ticket from the same camera on the same day!!!. As it consider 2 different violation so he has to take the class and also get 3 point. OMGGG.. I'm getting scared. As new driver, if I get 6 point and more I have to retake my license. Getting license in UK is not easy... I failed once before get my license and it is not cheap/easy either to get instructor especially automatic car. There will be a lots of complication if my license being revoke because learner can't drive car without supervision of someone who had the license for 3 years, so who going to take care my car? I have no one here. So the thought of getting 6 point was really scary.
I had been on the road for 1 week and that letter was from my first day of roadtrip, I really worry if I get another 2 letter, The next 2 weeks was the longest time i ever feel. Every time i reached home, i prayed there is no letter on the door. Lucky it wasn't and not long after that I got letter which tell me that I'm eligible for speed awareness class so I can take it instead of getting the points. Thanks God. However as England & Scotland have different rules so I have to take the class in England. All the booking was done online and it quite efficient. Finally i can rest but since then I have been try to figure out the solution so the same problem didn't occurred again. I have installed Tom Tom on my phone but I'm not sure why but there is no sound on the speed limit. Then I tried to figure if it possible to upgrade my car to enable speed limit warning on my car's build in GPS. After so many googled, only then I knew that my car do have cruise control which I can limit my speed. It not intelligent as you have to manual set the limit you want but I think it will help... Apparently it take a speeding ticket for me to figure out my car have cruise control :p (when i first get the car, a friend asked if i have cruise control which i told them no, i don't have).. There is always a silver lining in everything.
For those driving in UK, just be careful when driving in 30mph area as the speed camera do exist. For speed average camera, don't just slow down when you see the camera as they calculate the time on each snapshot to get your average speed. The penalty is real in UK not like in Malaysia.