For serious speeding offences, you may have your licence suspended or disqualified for a period of time. NSW Police can issue a licence suspension at the roadside if you are caught speeding by more than 45km/h over the speed limit.
Can I lose my licence for speeding? Yes, you can. If you a caught driving more and 40km/h over the speed limit, you will receive a letter from the Department of Transport and Main Roads imposing a suspension of your licence for 6 months.
Immediate licence suspension will apply to: a person caught driving 45 km/h or more over the speed limit or 145 km/h or more in a 110 km/h zone (these motorists are also subject to vehicle impoundment)
All speeding offences committed by a learner or P1 driver attract at least 4 demerit points. This means that if you commit any speeding offence while on your learner or P1 licence, it will have a consequence. You'll be suspended, or we'll refuse to renew your licence, for 3 months.
NSW Police can issue a licence suspension at the roadside if you are caught speeding by more than 45km/h over the speed limit. Police also have the right to impound your vehicle or confiscate your vehicle's number plates.
Transport for NSW suspensions for speeding
over 30 km/hr and up to 45 km/hr over the speed limit, your licence will be suspended for 3 months. over 45 km/hr over the speed limit, your licence will be suspended for 6 months.
The 10% rule
That's because the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) urges police officers to use their discretion when dealing with drivers who break the speed limit. To be more specific, they recommend only handing out speeding tickets if a driver surpasses the speed limit by 10% plus 2.
“So for example, travelling at 35mph or above in a 30mph zone will be recorded as a speeding offence. “However, Go Safe say thresholds vary and can change without notice. “Officially, any speeding offence occurs at 1mph above the limit, but most forces will allow a variance.”
If you have successfully completed the 12-month period without getting any more points, all demerit points on your licence when the option notice was issued will be removed. Any demerit points you got after this will remain on your licence. Most demerit points expire and are removed from your licence after four years.
Can I get disqualified from driving for speeding? Depending on the severity of the speeding offence, you may be disqualified from driving for up to 56 days. Also, if you build up more than 12 points on your licence you will lose it.
It is an offence to drive in excess of the speed limit and driving up to 24 kilometres above the limit will often result in a loss of demerit points and a fine. For drivers who speed at 25 kilometres or more above the speed limit, harsher penalties apply.
For mobile cameras, a tolerance of three km/hr or three per cent for speeds over 100km/hr is deducted. Police can also apply an additional tolerance at their discretion.
You can check your demerit points and the status of your driver's licence online for free. How long does it take to get my points back? It takes three years from the date of the offence to regain your points.
If you hold an open licence and you get 12 or more demerit point offences within any 3 year period, we will send you a licence sanction notice.
There's no way to check if you've been caught speeding, you will have to wait and see if you receive notice from the local police force in the post, which you should receive within 14 days. How do you report speeding on your street?
What is the 'rule'? The 'rule' itself is quite straightforward: if the speed limit is (for example) 30mph, the rule states that you won't get a speeding ticket unless you are going 10% plus 2 mph faster than the limit.
Suppose that the camera's image covers a 20m stretch of road. You'd have to be driving fast enough to clear that distance in the time between the first and second photographs. This interval is typically 0.5 seconds. To travel 20m in 0.5 seconds, your speed would have to be 144km/h (90mph).
A Freedom of Information (FOI) request by BBC Panorama has revealed that only around half of fixed speed cameras now work.
The camera itself gives a speed measurement, but a court will rely on a technician's calculation of the distance covered over the ground, which is estimated to be accurate to within one mile per hour. Successful challenges have been made on occasion, however.
Any new driver who gets 6 or more points during their first 2 years after passing their driving test, will have their licence revoked.