Hey all just after a rough idea as to what will happen with my license (p2's)
On the 9/1/2016 I was driving towards Brighton along Sturt road. I was at the intersection of Sturt road and Morphett road, and accelerated at the lights heading towards Brighton road. I heard the speedometer beep which was set at 65km/h and kept accelerating to just over 80km/h, then decelerated back down to 60km/h as I set cruise control on. After 5 minutes of driving along Sturt road a police officer signaled his lights on and I turned left into a side street. I turned the car off, and sat inside with the windows down. The police officer walked towards my car and told me to exit the vehicle and for the passenger to stay inside the car. The officer asked why I decided to take off at the traffic lights, and I responded with “Because I had my friend in the car and I was being stupid”. The officer said that he had to accelerate to 130km/h to catch up to me. I was then asked who the car belonged to and I replied with “It was my dads car”. The officer told me that I was travelling more then 80km/h + and said that he would book me for 81km/h. The officer also had no evidence of how fast I was travelling as he didn’t show me a radar gun with the speed on it. He then walked back towards his car where he started to fill out a notice on the top of his boot, then called my name and asked him to tell him where I lived. I provided the correct details and was handed with an expiation notice with a fine of $726 + $60 levy which totals to $786 fine. I also asked the officer how many points the offence I committed was and he replied with “three”. I was then told I was able to leave.
Since then, I refused to pay the fee and decided to protest and take it to court. To which I've recieved no letter since.
I'm curious as to how he was able to pin me for speeding when he turned left onto morphett road, looked in his rear view mirror after hearing the v8 take off next to me. Continued down morphett, did a u turn, then came back onto sturt road, accelerated up to 130km and caught up to me 5 minutes later and said I was speeding. No gun, no 2nd officer in his car, no proof what so ever. There was also no demerit points on the notice, just the speed i was doing and the fine.
Thoughts?
