Been caught speeding

I got caught going 7pm over (by a camera) and had to do a course. I’m surprised they didn’t pull you over going 20 over the limit but you may get a letter

No I won’t accept criticism from an unhinged uptight loon, and you’re opinion doesn’t mean shit to me. It happened, I’m over it, I was over it after about 4 seconds and I learnt my lesson.

You make yourself sound like dick. I've gone a few miles over but never 90 in a 60. That is stupid and you've not learned anything👍

So embarrassing at your age, you could probs be my mother if you were driving 20 years ago.

You deserve the highest penalty and fine. A relative was killed by a speeding driver, you are the lowest of the low. Why were you in such a hurry to go 20mph over the limit? I hope it was more important than someone's life.

@TheObstinateHeadstrongGirl

It's up to you if you have a little cry about it. I couldn't give a shiny shit.

And bore off is such a tiresome response for someone with such an impressive but clearly misleading username!!

By the same logic If you have been going faster ( especially faster than the speed limit) you wouldn't have been there at that exact moment in time either.

If neither of you ever drove a car neither of you would have been there either.

It's easy to blame speed, but speed really wasn't the reason for the accident. I am very sorry for what you have been through. Cars have not been good for humans yet we all still drive them

Who used the word impossible?

I don’t think anyone is justifying their speeding, but you can’t turn back time, it happens, and almost all speeding incidents result in no one being hurt, so hand wringing over something you can’t change is futile

People on here always spout this nonsense as if it’s impossible to drive within the speed limit

This is one of my favourites. Everyone who states that it is impossible to maintain speed is admitting to being incapable of maintaining control of a vehicle

It really isn’t off the scale.

If cyclists aren’t in high vis and dog walkers step out into the road then it’s their own stupid fault I’d they get hit, no matter what the speed.

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Hopefully you won't get a ticket
I don't know about the ins and outs of the legal part

What I would say is take this as a warning:wake up call.

I was you. Driving home late at night, after a loooong ray just focusing on getting home in a semi familiar route
In what I thought was a 60 zone tootling through.

I Saw a flash in the mirror, realisied I was in the outskirts of a village and had hit the 30 without noting the sign,
I was going 54!! 😱
Utterly panicked that I was going to lose my license

I got away with it but I have been completely faithful to all limits since

Hope you are okay and not upset by other posters here today.

Honestly they should take the license away when people speed to that extent, never mind 'please be kind' for fucks sake.

Hopefully you will have to do a course and see the reality for patients like mine who's lives are forever destroyed by feckless idiots.

Round here at night you might encounter plenty of things other than moving cars on the main road (60) at night:

a cyclist

someone walking a dog

a broken down car with no working electrics, so no lights

a deer running across the road

a fallen tree

(these are all things which drivers have collided with on main roads in my area in the past year or so)

Driving at 80 is ‘off the scale insane’ on a single carriageway road in the dark with no street lighting. Just because you’ve not hit anything so far, doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Risk assessment says that you avoid even an unlikely to happen risk if the consequences would be catastrophic.

So what you are saying is that you are happy to break the law, and put peoples lives in danger, and only worry about it if you think you have been caught... What a messed up attitude!

Why? For example Germany has no mandatory speed limits, even their recommended speed limit is 10 mph higher than our mandatory.

Truth is the 30mph in a built up area is way more dangerous than 90mph on an empty motorway.

But it depends how you define bad

Your wasting your time. MN users are perfect In every way, they never speed.(not me, I speed every time I'm in a car)

You weren't pulled over I'd imaging you will be fine . But I'd keep an eye in the mail for the next 2wks .

Pathetic childish attitude. Accept criticism if it was '20 years ago' and stop being so stroppy and defensive.

90 in a 60 is selfish. Not killing someone's is the bare minimum you can do. Round of applause for you

Oh do bore off - should I got and self flaggelate and cry about it? It was 20 years ago, no one was hurt, get over it (I have)

Hopefully you have been caught and will get a hefty fine 😡

Oh dear OP - you were always going to get your head bitten off here for this one. Maybe a post on piston heads would give you better results:)
But for what it’s worth, I think you’ll be ok, they have to follow you for a certain distance, because they are moving too, so it’s difficult to get an accurate read. They would also have to have a calibrated speedometer to prove this.
I’m pretty sure that if they were going to give you a ticket, they would have done.

Limit for speed awareness at 60 is 75, OP may have been only doing that though as speedos can measure a lot over at higher speeds, DH's does in his car about 5mph

@Icedlatteplease I never said his speed was the only cause. But if he hadn't been doing that speed then he wouldn't have been there at that exact moment in time.

It could've been the rear end of a car rather than a pedestrian. It would make a difference.

I hate to pull apart what you went though but I'm guessing the actual cause of the accident wasn't the speed. It was the fact someone made a mistake at the junction.

It is easy to speed. However, there’s a difference between being one or two miles over and twenty miles over the limit.

be grateful you didn’t cause an accident and hurt or kill someone. If you get a fine and points you earned it and deserve it.

maybe have more consideration and thought for other road users and less on “oh my god will I get punished for doing this dangerous thing that I already knew was dangerous and wrong and illegal but did it anyway because hey ho my time is more valuable than someone else’s life!”

you don’t care about the potential dangers you put upon other people. You only care about not getting caught.