Yep i guess. Just wanted to know if anyone has had experience with this particular camera in this area - thank you anyway

9 points

So it's not £50 fine & 3 points

It's a ban and the cost of getting insurance when you get back on the road.

I knew of a chap at work many years ago.

Drove like a saint when I first met him - he had 9 points and no option as he said..

A few years later he was sacked aged 53 ish - he had been caught Drunk Driving down south whilst on business.

Paid the fine but came back North and drove for 12 months before being found out - stopped for speeding IIRC. Sacked on the spot - he was a star salesman most years but driving a company car when banned saw him sacked and lose most of his pension i.e. funds were reduced to what he paid in (6/7% was what I paid IIRC), the company withdrew their 20/25 years worth (around 20% of earnings)

I know the road the OP speaks of. It's a 30 limit in Westoning and then 40 all the way to the 30 limit at Flitwick.

If the OP thought it was a 70 limit, I think I can see their problem.

goo.gl/maps/hcKvjqqTjLXH2Urc7

What is NSL?

Here is the link below

www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.9796434,-0.4988074,3a,75...6

So it's not Westoning to Flitwick like your original post suggested, but Toddington/M1 to Westoning. There's been a camera there since Noah was a lad. I'm surprised you're not aware of it. If you got caught by that, I'm not surprised you've got nine points on your licence.

Has anyone even had any experience with this camera or a Trevulo Camera?

Seen them around, but never had my car's picture taken. Rather not a 'badge of honour' I want. :-)

You will not get offered a speed awareness course with 9 points already on your licence, they remain valid for only 3 years but stay on your license for 4. So if you get 3 pts and total 12, then you will only lose your license for 3 years from the first 3 points you got, after that the total points on your license will become 3 less, so 12 will become 9.

I'm not sure I understand all of this.

First of all, having nine points does not preclude the offer of a course. The only conditions for the offer of a course are that the speed alleged must be within (Limit + 10% +9mph) and the driver must not have taken a course for an offence which took place in the three years prior to the current one.

Secondly, the easiest way to explain the "totting up" rules is that points remain "active" for three years from the date of the offence. Twelve points accumulated within three years (with the dates of the offences being used to calculate that period) will see the offender facing a minimum ban of six months unless he can persuade the court that "Exceptional Hardship" will be suffered by him and/or others as a result of the ban.

There's a couple of misleading matters in the cut&paste info you provided:

Getting a Fixed Penalty Notice

Fixed Penalty Notices are not issued for speeding offences. Drivers are made a "Conditional Offer of a Fixed Penalty". This is not a pedantic point or one of simple terminology. There is an important legal difference.

If you get an FPN you can choose to plead guilty or not guilty.

No plea is entered in response to a fixed penalty. You either accept it and pay it or not. Again, this is not pedantic. Pleading guilty implies a criminal conviction has been recorded. No conviction is recorded when a fixed penalty is accepted.

it was a digital camera so you wont see a flash.

That makes no sense. A flash is intended to fill in lighting and ensure the vehicle and it's VRN are captured. It doesn't matter whether the camera is digital or contains film.

I was potentially caught by a Truevelo at Hardingstone Northants approx 15 years ago. My lack of observation; went from an an NSL side road to 40 then 30. I missed signage for 30. These cameras whiich face the driver have a filter on the flash but still visibly flash.

I saw the flash but heard nothing more; either the camera was full either film or digitally or I was near enough to 30 to get by.

As pointed out the OP had ample notice of 30, which should be achieved by the limit sign. Being possibly over it 200+ metres after the sign isn't really defensible.

The average speed cameras near me certainly don't flash. If they did, they'd have to flash every car.