I just got pulled over for doing 32 in a 30

They could easily be adapted to enable road pricing.

Which might not be a bad thing when considered against the clumsy attempt currently being proposed.

Nothing to do with 1984... yet. Mark my words, these black boxes, sold as friendly devices to reduce our premiums, might do more than we think, sooner than we think. Ditto dashcams: voluntary now, sold as a convenience, may be compulsory before long, just to have insurance. Government don't want us to be driving cars for more than an hour a day, because it might stir up nasty "carbon footprint viruses"? They can make sure that nobody drives for more than an hour a day.

Yes, call me a tin-foil-hatter, or conspiracy theorist, I've heard it all before. We "conspiracy theorists" were right about a lot of things, not so long ago.

Yes I drive at 25 a lot these days because a)there’s so many 20s that I can never quite believe I’m in a 30 so hedge my bets slightly just in case I’ve got it wrong and b)there’s so many 20s so i know there’s probably another one coming very soon.

Driving at 25 round my way feels really fast these days, the roads are so blighted with badly/illegally parked cars, corner cutters (god how I hate them) and general idiots you have to keep stopping for.

Then you have excuse - you know the road and should be able to drive according to the law.

I got points on my licence years ago for a similar thing and you got off with just being warned. I think that’s unreasonable, yes.

Some people seem to habitually drive at 10mph under the limit just to be safe. I managed to overtake a car a couple of weeks ago in a 20mph limit. I didn’t need to go over 20 to do it.

Me too!

As has been stated multiple times the speed limit is the absolute maximum speed you should have been doing. A speed of 27/28 would have been a perfectly acceptable speed to do in a 30 and would have allowed you the leeway to creep up to the max of 30 seeing as you have difficulty with maintaining your car at a low speed. You can always drop down a gear too which would have helped with control.

Instead of feeling victimised, which you weren't, consider that that limit applies to all vehicles on the road from a Micra to an HGV and to all drivers on the road, from the attentive and skilled to drivers like you. You broke the limit (as has probably every driver on here at one time or another), the difference being most of us, if stopped by police, would accept the warning, apologise and go about our day: you, weirdly, feel personally affronted, made worse by pretty much every post you've made on this thread confirming you have poor driving skills and an attitude.

Half the vote think you're NBU which is nothing for you to take comfort from: it just explains all the shit driving out there.

This idea of a 'war on the motorist' or motorist hatred is nonsense. The law and society treats people differently when behind the wheel. For example, for any other crime other than as a motorist are you allowed a reduced sentence or none at all because it will inconvenience you?

There's a national push to lower all car speeds and reduce the number of accidents to pedestrians. They are trying to change our mind-sets, as they did with drink-driving and seat belts. Most of the people I know, good, conscientious drivers, have had to choose between points on their licence and going through a tedious 3 hour retraining session, for exactly this level of offence.

The number of fatalities and injuries is dropping.

A speed limit is there for a reason. You were exceeding it.

Spend more time looking at the speedo rather than the road ahead. Could take your eyes off the road just as a child could run in front of you.Our car beeps at you for doing 1 mile over the limit, beeps when speed limit changes etc. Recently it beeped when we were on a motorway indicating the speed limit was 50 - wrong as no variable speed limit on that motorway. No way do I advocate speeding but a bit of common sense needed.

Maybe some of those ‘ harpies’ have personally experienced how a difference of 2mph can determine the extent of someone’s injuries, or be the difference between survival and death.

ridiculous.

We've all done it but if you get busted you cant really blame anyone else but yourself. Even a few mph over 30 will cause more significant harm to a child if you were to hit them.

I've been ticketed twice for this. Best to drive at 25 than Rick straying over 30 imo

It is still speeding though, as annoying as it is. It’s a matter of the law, not of degree. It would otherwise be like taking a small sweet out of a pick n mix, not paying for it, but saying it wasn’t really stealing. There’s an argument for leeway, but that is indeed what you got as you didn’t get a ticket. I think you were lucky rather than hard done by!

Op hasn't responded since the vile remark she made yesterday.

That seems like you are projecting exceptionalism and entitlement!

Yes at 32mph you are breaking the law, and that does make you a criminal regardless of the whataboutary you want to say!

Keep to the speed limit in the future!

Also a ‘town full of drug addicts and drunks’ has no bearing on a speedometer, and you were not an innocent person!

You were just given a verbal warning. Seems fair to me. Next time it could be 35mph. The verbal warning has done the trick.b

Yes it does and fab go London which seems to switch 20/30 lots

Lol but according to this thread 'traffic' cops are only supposed to book for driving offences, you could have a suitcase of cocaine and a few guns in the back but that's not their remit! Its all about that 2mph😂

More that 50% disagree with you on this poll.

I was done for 25 in a 20. The letter said 10% and 2mph margin. Lambeth/Met.