I just got pulled over for doing 32 in a 30

Not so close I couldn't see road furniture (and have an appropriate braking distance).

50 yards. Do you know how far 50 yards is? 😂

No clue if it's already been mentioned as not read 25 pages of thread but surely you could avoid this if you actually walked with your dogs on their walk instead of taking them in the car? That is the bit I find strange

Lone police officer OK if the police car has a calibrated speedometer.

Why are you so scared about this? That's weird. If there's a limit it's a limit if 30 isn't the limit ,would you expect everyone to say it's 32 or 40 or should there be no limit

What are talking about? Your comments are just silly now.

Up the thread you wrote:
“But the simple fact is that we all break the limit a little, without any carelessness at all.”

Do you drive “at entirely safe and appropriate speeds”

Do you break the speed limits “a little”

Do you lie when it suits you?

That's why the op was let off with a warning, maybe it was the end of his shift and he didn't fancy the paperwork. Presumably the police car was following the op for some time before he pulled her over, so she was not only speeding but not keeping an eye on her mirrors, the guys with cameras in vans, on motorway bridges etc, don't pull you over, you get a NIP in the post with a link to download the photo of you breaking the law.

I did exactly the same. I got a ticket and fine for doing 23 in a 20 road during the pandemic. It was 6 am and I was going to the hospital to work. I admit that I had resentful thoughts of outrage as I thought about everybody else staying home, and I was been given a ticket as I was driving to work on the wards at 6 am. But I got over it and have pretty much kept to the speed limit since. Though in 20 mph zones, most people here do not keep to the speed limit unless there is a speed camera.

You really don't see how invasive and bigbrothery this approach is?

Noone should question why are you driving if you aren't drunk or speeding or breaking law in some other way.

You are a thoroughly selfish individual

Anyone else find it odd that it was a lone police officer? I thought they worked in pairs?

The guys with the speed guns tend to be the same guys who get to pick up the pieces when someone is speeding and causes an accident. They aren't always that lenient.

A guy I was at school with (eventually) became a fireman. His first week he was called to a car smash on the A40. It was foggy and a van had inexplicably broken down or stopped in the right hand lane. A Mini Metro with 4 teenagers went into it at well over 60. My friend was sent to look for someones head.

He'd always been a bit "roughie toughie" as we said. But that made him a bit less cavalier about things.

What? Have you never driven behind a bus, or buses together?

Do you seriously think drivers hang 50 yards behind a bus?

How close up the exhaust pipe of the vehicle Infront are you if you can't see road signs ? and if the rain or fog is so thick you can't see signs need to slow down, or probably stop anyway.

I don’t have a speed limiter.

And I drive at entirely safe and appropriate speeds and distances behind vehicles of whatever sort, adjusting for conditions.

Hence the speed limiter control: your eyes are liberated from speedo duty and free to take in speed limit signs and hazards.

Golden rule, if you can’t see through it, slow down enough so that even if it brakes hard, you won’t smash into the rear of it.

Same with rain and blind bends, imagine there’s a stationary 44-ton truck just out of sight, and that given a preference, you wouldn’t want to impale yourself onto the back of it.

Simples. No bionics required.

You wouldn't have been pulled over if you were doing 29.

Just grow up. You broke the rules; you got caught and you were lucky enough to get just a warning. Accept some personal responsibility like an adult.

They can pull you over at any speed over the limit. It’s up to them whether or not they actually prosecute or not.

As the OP found out.

Jesus!

did you read the post?? That's what you took from it?? I'm not actually sure you should be driving at all!

I got done doing 62 up hill in an overtaking lane in a 60.

The guys with the speed guns tend to be the same guys who get to pick up the pieces when someone is speeding and causes an accident. They aren't always that lenient.

Id consider yourself very lucky and stick to the speed limit in future.

Oh wow. I didn’t realise Specsavers did glasses that let you see through buses, lorries, fog and rain. And around bends and corners.

I must get some of these Bionic Woman specs.

But I try not to look around me too much anyway, because MN posters tell me I must be aware of my exact speed at all times so I’m largely fixed on the speedometer. 🙄

An awful thing happened to that poster’s SIL and all you can say is something defensive??!

Wow

The empathy is really hanging out of you isn't it?

Mumsnet pettiness at its finest

Shaking at the nasty policeman having a word but ignoring a posters lived experience, well done you

Did you read that post? The reason she died was the excessive speed.