Average Speed Cameras give you the time to rectify above mistake by slowing down for the rest of the of the Average Speed Camera area. I have done this on occasions. I'm sure its perfectly legitimate to do so??

Afterall it's for their convenience not ours, and probably partly about getting their monies, and partly to stop ticket swapping.

parking there would be silly and negate the whole reason for the zigzags.

The usual staggeringly poor journalism we come to expect, coupled with sheer ignorance (or is it just posturing) from MPs:
No such place. It's either Tonbridge or Tunbridge Wells.
As if there were ever a time where NIPs for speeding were sent out by the body that is responsible for maintaining and signing the road, rather than the relevant police force.
Spot the deliberate attempt to suggest that TfL/Sadiq Khan get the revenues from any fines, which as we all know, they don't.

Let's just hope the Met cancel all the NIPs and ensure any that have already gone through the system and fines/points applied are reversed.

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My questions were rhetorical. I have never heard of anyone being prosecuted for having an unroadworthy vehicle with a valid MOT with or without a more recent MOT fail. In the old days I guess a driver who failed the attitude test or encountered an officious rozzer might have been prosecuted but it seems extremely unlikely nowadays with the contemporary minimal 'light touch' policing applied to traffic offences.

I have a dog in this game as my Jaguar S-type recently failed an MOT test performed just under a month before the existing MOT expired. The failure was the offside rear indicator flashing with reduced intensity along with the reversing lamp also flashing. It's possible that this fault had existed for months perhaps even since the day after the previous test pass as I have never had occasion to be outside the car looking at the indicator & there were no warning messages on the dashboard & the required audible & visual indication that the direction indicator was in use showed no error. I drove it home from the test. Was it by definition unroadworthy because of the item on the MOT fail?

There is, AFAIK, no such definition. It is essentially a matter of judgement.

After I got it home I thought that I had identified the problem & fixed it. I then took it back for a retest a few days later only for it to fail again as while the indicator worked as per normal in most circumstances the problem resurfaced when the rear fog lamp was switched on. I drove it back home again. Was it unroadworthy due to this second fail?

As above.

Yesterday I found the broken wire & got the problem properly fixed. The car still has a valid MOT certificate but also two failures but the problem it failed on has now been fixed. It's booked in for another MOT next week at a different testing station. Is it now roadworthy? What if a different tester now decides that one of the advisories on the failed test is in fact a major fault? Does that render it retrospectively unroadworthy?

It is now roadworthy in respect of the fault you've rectified. Who knows what else may have gone wrong in the meantime?

Every vehicle which fails a test was - presumably - unroadworthy beforehand. So what? There is no question of any retrospective action.

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I'm under the impression that once their ban is up they will get another policy and not declare the 2 x IN10s as the points will have cleared and not declare the cancelled policy and hope the insurance company won't find out............

The members I know personally on this site are really quite sad about all this.

without taking your foot off the brake or touching the gas pedal?

What if you were, indeed, holding the phone in stationary traffic, but the car was in eco mode, and the engine was off at that point?