Police van camera. I despair, what does this mean?

Shes not saying she will use that as an excuse to the Police!

If you have to appear in court I hope for your sake the magistrates aren’t MN’ers. You’re certainly getting a rough treatment on here.
They would have you behind bars!

No it isn't 'different'.
The police/courts aren't interested in why anyone broke the law. Nor are they interested in what other people do.

Best advice pay up and pay more attention in future.

Speed limits are there for a reason.

Where I live all the roads that have houses on them have a 20 mph speed limit, which is a pain but it could save a child's life.

When I got caught speeding last year, I got a letter and did a speed awareness course so I didn't get any points.

Another time when I got caught by actual police checkers, doing 38 in a 30 (it was a village that I was driving through most days, and I was actually about to come out of it on to a national speed limit road, so it was a bit unfair tbh, as I hadn't done that through the village, but was starting to speed up as I believed we could, and it was late and it was empty.... rules is rules though obv.

They pulled me over and told me off, but I didn't hear any more about it

We had a change from 40 to 30 mph on one of the rods near us recently. Police said there would be a 6 month bedding in period for residents to get used to it. You might get lucky.

I unfortunately went past a speed camera at about 37, a week after passing my driving test, first speed camera I ever drove past independently. I thought the road was 40, my sat nav told me the limit was 40. Road had also recently had the speed limit reduced. I never heard anything, but it was such a wake up call I have been so so careful ever since.

Sit tight. If 14 days go by and you don’t hear anything, you’re in the clear. Otherwise, I do think you have a good chance of a speed awareness course.

Mine is exactly the same. We’ve got loads of those cameras that measure your speed between the cameras and I use a speed limiter on my car and if I press it at 31 instead of 30 I have to reset the whole thing.

Think positive, if you are offered a course, one of the things they teach you is how to recognise the likely speed limit for a stretch of road and about the repeater signs that will indicate if it is different. Probably best not to admit you weren't paying attention and missed the signs

We went through somewhere recently where it was 40 painted on the road and 50 on the sign

50% over the speed limit should be a ban.

To all the people having a go about signage etc, I was caught doing 24 in a 20. The road had changed and I wasn’t aware. They had put small signs up through the road but not the big ones as you enter the road, the first sign was about a third of the way down. There were a lot of people caught there and lots of complaints. I complained on my speed awareness course and the person running it said sometimes they can’t get all the signs up straight away??? And they said to use my sat nav but my sat nav isn’t always updated either and can have the wrong speed limits, and how is checking my sat nav constantly safe driving?
About a year later they changed a road near me to being a 20 and guess where they put the big sign at the entrance to the road? Behind a bush! Growing out over someone’s wall, it was ridiculous. As you came off the roundabout you couldn’t see it at all! I complained and they have cut the bush back but I don’t know if they caught anyone during the time between putting in the sign and cutting the bush.
I now HATE driving. I’m stressed about speed a lot even though I am not a speeder, I am just worried all the time that I don’t know the limit and am over. I am likely more distracted now than I was before.

Yes we should have speed limits but no I don’t believe they make it obvious when they make big changes.

Was the speed you were doing measured on your speedometer or satnav? If the former, as others have said, you might have been doing more like 42ish. Did you brake as soon as you saw them? That might have brought it down a bit. Also if the speed limit has just changed recently they might be more lenient in that circumstance with an offer of speed awareness? Unfortunately you will just have to wait and see 🤞 I was once caught doing about 45 (turned out to be 42 from memory) in a 30 - it was dual carriageway into a city that was initially 50 suddenly going down to 30 and I didn't see the signs. It was very early morning so no other traffic around. I got speed awareness.

Excellent for you 👍
Mine is nearly always 3mph over, no matter what speed I’m going 🤷‍♀️
it’s absolutely not a myth. Maybe you should get your car looked at.

As others have said I think it will be three points and a fine as you were probably too far over the limit for a speed awareness course. Having said it's possible they didn't get you. There have been a couple of times when I may have inadvertently been over the limit and was convinced I was going to get a ticket but didn't - was there another car just in front of you? It may be an urban myth but I have heard that the machines they use take a while to "reload" so the first driver will get done and the rest will get away with it.

it absolutely is true. It you had checked your facts online before disputing this you would have found:

’Yes, most car speedometers are designed to slightly overread
(show a higher speed than actual) to ensure they never display a lower speed than the true speed. This is often a safety and legal requirement, allowing for a margin of error (e.g., up to 10% + 6.25 mph in the UK). ‘

It’s not a myth.

When I drive past a radar sensor that shows your speed back at you (like you get on lampposts in areas they’re trying to stop speeding)

It shows 30 at me when my speedo is reading 32/33.

It’s a well known fact. Car manufacturers cannot produce a car that shows a lower speed than it is actually doing. So they all err on the side of caution by a few mph.

Google: do car speedos read over in the UK?

My speedo reads around 3mph over the GPS

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That’s absolutely not true and an old myth, probably from the 80s/90s. I think I heard it then. It should die along with the “common law spouse” rubbish.

My speedometer perfectly matches my tracking and other location apps

Car speedos always over read. If the speedo
showed 45mph your true speed would have been about 42mph.

So not as bad, but still quite a way over the limit.

Not realising the limit had changed is no defence. As a (hopefully) legal driver, she’ll be expected to pay due care and attention to the road. This includes road signs and being aware of your speed.

There’s never an acceptable excuse for speeding.

The speedometer in UK cars is set to be 2-4mph over the speed you’re actually doing.

There’s a good chance you were actually doing 42mph and will be offered the course, and no points.

Oh!!! I wonder if that it true??? Well I wasn't stopped.

I do hope you are right!

I could be wrong but is a policeman with a speed gun not supposed to stop you and fine you? I was told by a policeman that if you are clocked by a copper holding a speed gun they have to give you the fine there and then, unlike the speed vans. I’m in Ireland so probably different rules.

Say that when someone hits you...if she didn't notice then she quite frankly shouldn't be driving

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