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If you were 101 mph in a 70 mph zone then you will have to attend court for consideration of disqualification in any event. That is why they have summonsed you.

You may as well plead guilty by post. You will have to attend anyway but it will do no harm to enter an early guilty plea. In terms of whether or not send a covering letter, that really depends upon what you intend to say. In fact the forms you have received do allow you to set down anything you want to say about the offence. With speeding offences, unfortunately, there is a great deal that can be said in mitigation though. Usually it is a matter of emphasising remorse and is a persons hitherto good driving record. It would do no harm to include a cover letter saying how sorry you are.

If you are doing 101 mph in a 70 zone then you are facing 6 points or a short disqualification of between 7 to 56 days. Overall, you would probably get 6 points. This is a high-speed but it was upon a motorway and so there were limited vulnerable road users. You have no other points and have pleaded guilty.

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