To be terrified I'll lose my license

Think you get 3 points for each speeding offence, so 9, but you can reduce that to 6 by attending a speed awareness course.

I’d have a word with yourself - yes, many of us do speed occasionally but when you’ve been flashed by a speed camera a normal response is to slow the f*ck down for the rest of the journey. It may have only been 4-5am, but there re still other people on the roads - emergency workers who’ve completed a late/12hr shift and are knackered, perhaps even traumatised, negotiating the roads in the dark with speeding plonkers on the road.

You’re very lucky you probably won’t lose your license, but only because on this occasion you didn’t cause an accident.

If you'd been going faster you'd have been long gone before he had time to set off across the road.

🤣🤣

I would probably get a boob job and call yourself Katie.

This 👏

The stupidity alone of still driving over the limit when you already think you’ve been caught by a camera is truly astounding. Better to stay off the roads with that mentality

I mean, he might have been trying for the Darwin Award.

Hitting him at 70 would have had the same effect as 85. 🤷🏻‍♀️

We need to make our own judgement about what's safe, not rely on an arbitrary number while driving like a zombie.

If you think the speed limit should be changed, start a campaign, a petition, whatever. But in the meantime don't be a dick.

Calm down lewis Hamilton

Driving at 160pmh on a motorway (if indeed you did, I'm somewhat sceptical), is an extremely stupid idea even if permissible by law.

Be as sceptical as you like, I couldn't give a shit. My car will do a genuine 194mph (over 200mph on speedo) but 160-170mph was plenty for me.

I've also done well over 100mph on public roads on the Isle of Man loads of times.

I'm perfectly happy with my choices, thanks.

Many years ago, I used to weekly commute with my partner. We used a bit of motorway which was very new and always very empty. It was also dead straight.

On this particular day, it was even emptier than normal, hardly any other vehicles in sight at all, it was a fine clear day, no rain, everything fine, no joining traffic from junctions. So we were speeding.

Safe to speed? In our judgement, yes, completely.

Until a man walked, yes, walked across the motorway pushing a wheelbarrow.

We didn’t hit him. My partner slowed right down and luckily there was no one behind us. But if we’d been going fractionally faster, or he’d set off a second later, or stumbled…

My point is that the unexpected can always happen. Perhaps more likely to happen when the road is very empty because people’s perception of risk changes.

Neither of us has knowingly speeded since.

160 mph? I hope you mean 160 kmh. 160 mph = over 250 kmh and even in Germany (I live there) would be considered dangerous driving per se. I don't agree with the concept of no speed limits, but they're not actually a free-for-all. (And from a practical POV, large stretches of the Autobahnen are either intermittently or permanently speed-limited to 120 kmh anyway).

I sometimes go over the limit on motorways if I consider it safe to do so....

I think you should challenge any tickets and use that as your defence in court. Let us know how it goes.

You are deluded if you think you are in any way qualified to make the decision if it is safe for you to drive at 85mph. Speed kills.

If you go to court and they are within a few minutes you may get one lot of points for two offences, it depends really if it's worth going to court to do this instead of taking the points, if there are three offence and you haven't had any in the last three years that would be a course and 2x3 points so no loss of licence anyway

Oh no OP, M62 from where to where? The stretch from Manchester to Warrington has loads of cameras and they do fine you...

I just googled it and only parts of the M62 are smart. And the RAC says smart motorways will still record your speed even if no restrictions are in place, but they do not flash. So regardless, I imagine at least one of those flashes caught you on a non smart area, and if consistent speeding, as you say, you may have been caught in a smart area too. The fine is capped at £2500 on a motorway but don't know about multiples infractions. Also your insurance will go up an average of 25% for getting six points.
@CagneyAndLazy that's nothing to boast about. I've driven for 35 years and never had an accident - could have one today though. It's not just yourself, it's how others are driving too.

If you'd like to drive at excessive speed, go to the Autobahn or book yourself a track day.

Driving at 160pmh on a motorway (if indeed you did, I'm somewhat sceptical), is an extremely stupid idea even if permissible by law.

You have absolutely no time to react to circumstances and would be but a smear on the road should you crash. Even some small debris on the carriageway could cause a catastrophic accident at that speed.

Someone I know has just lost their license doing the exact same thing

Exceeding the speed limit is automatically illegal, that is the case because it has been assessed as safe to drive up to that limit.

That's absolute genius. 😂

"Assessed" when and by whom?

The motorway speed limit has been 70mph since it was introduced, when cars were absolute death traps.

No one did any assessment whatsoever. It was an arbitrary figure plucked out of nowhere and continues to be so.

It may be perfectly safe to do 90mph on a given stretch of motorway today in perfect conditions and zero traffic. The same limit applies tomorrow when it's pissing with rain and packed with vehicles and not safe to even do 60mph.

We need to make our own judgement about what's safe, not rely on an arbitrary number while driving like a zombie.

There were no signs as to limits? you know the limit is 70. You deserve the points for being so daft as to not slow down after first flash.
Bad news or not you were stupid.

Ha. Motorway limits were set how many years ago?! They need review to take into account the improvements in braking and handling on modern cars (and I say that as someone with a classic car too).

Most motorways aren’t 70 consistently so I averaged it to 60.

I live in Glasgow and work in London. My journeys aren’t what “most” people do.

(have never been caught speeding. You’d think the odds would be against me.)

If you’re paying close enough attention to what children are doing in OTHER cars, I think you need to learn to keep your eyes on the road.

Exceeding the speed limit is automatically illegal, that is the case because it has been assessed as safe to drive up to that limit.

Not sure why you’d bother trying to defend someone who’s openly admitted to driving 15mph over the limit (so a far cry from say 74 in a 70 which could perhaps be accidental), and who cares so little about THE LAW that even when they thought they’d been caught they continued to drive in that manner.

To get a 300 miles journey down from 4hr17 (the time it would take @70mph the whole way, so no smaller roads or speed limited areas) to 3hr17 you'd have to be driving at 92mph the whole time. If you're driving that fast over the speed limit you deserve to get caught tbh. Plus thats in ideal circumstances (quiet, journey almost consistently on motorway)The vast majority of journey aren't that though - they are less than 30 Mins, involve access/interjections via smaller roads at lower limits, busier periods where you can only get past 75 for a few minutes before there's a hold up etc.). So for the vast majority of journeys MOST PEOPLE make daily you could drive ten miles over the speed limit for your whole journey (sufficent to get a ticket) and still only "save" 2 to 3 minutes.

And so is driving while being distracted by screaming/arguing/fighting children, but I see it daily.

Exceeding the speed limit isn't automatically dangerous - if it was you'd be prosecuted for DD not SP offences.

Edit to add: I've driven at over 160mph in Germany several times. No one died.