Speeding ticket - so annoyed with myself

[anonnancy]

I’m posting here to vent my annoyance at myself - I know I have done a bad thing and feel terribly ashamed. Just want to air my frustration with myself really!

I am very annoyed with myself. i hate drivers who speed and I have become one!!! Got a NIP through the post today, caught doing 36 in a 30. I have driven down this road so many times, albeit not for a while and always thought it was a 40mph limit. there are cameras although haven’t driven down this (dual carriageway) for well over a year and it is my own silly fault for not being more observant of the speed limit signs.

annoyingly, despite not taking this route home for over a year, I have taken this particular route twice in the last 2 weeks due to covering another department at work on a different site … so probably been caught twice and just waiting for the second ticket ….!

Lesson learned but still miffed with myself!

anyone else had two tickets close together before? I’ve never had a speeding ticket before so potentially getting two for the same stretch of road so close together is really frustrating (not frustrated at the cameras or limit - im
mad at myself for being so lapse and clearly not paying attention!) my dad is also a copper too so feel rather embarrassed and ashamed of myself
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Yeah, that's a bit of a buggar when that happens. The first one, you can opt to go to a speed awareness course (a naughty class). I think you pay £100, attend a one day session (that's very informative) and you don't get any points. Definitely worth considering. If you get a 2nd one, you'll have to accept that I'm afraid, you can't do 2 courses within 3 years.
This scenario happened to me in 2015. I took the course then had to accept points. I didn't make a jot of difference on my insurance, I was upfront when I renewed.

The pile on will start soon

A speeding tocket should be a nudge to make you think more carefully about how your drive. Sounds like it's worked, for now.

Of course you're annoyed with yourself. You're supposed to be.

Yes I got 2 in one day from same camera
one first thing in morning on the way to something I’d rather not talk about
the second was on my way back from this same traumatic event
You just have to take it on the chin
I was not concentrating and accept the blame - I took the course for one offence and points and fine for the other

I got 1 from a mobile camera. I was not impressed because dd is learning to drive and we had gone down that road a few days before and had pointed out that one of the signs was behind a tree!
When I was caught we were chatting, and laughing, I missed the sign in the tree, slowed when I saw the one on the left but didn't slow quickly enough.
Totally my fault for being distracted but wasn't happy as the first one in 25 years of driving.

Fortunately the speed awareness course worked wonders on me and the one main thing I took away was that they use technology to catch you, you should use technology so they don't. It was more about avoiding being caught than killing someone.

Yes, it's annoying when it happens.

I've been driving since 1980. I got one ticket in 1993, and then two close together in 2007. No idea why, my driving didn't suddenly deteriorate.

Now a few years later, I chalk it up to a momentary loss in concentration, and keep it in perspective. Three tickets in 41 years is hardly a crime wave, and I'm intent on not getting a fourth.

It’s definitely given me the wake up call - I clearly needed it!

slapped wrists for me and tail between my legs for sure!

Hopefully the second time you drove down there you were behind someone observing the speed limit and won't get a second one. DH got one recently for doing about 70 in a 60, i was very annoyed with him, it was one of those long straight roads in the countryside where the speed van often lurks, he did a course online and is a lot more careful now

Oh OP...AIBU was the worst place you could have posted this 😳

You’ll get a proper sanctimonious telling off soon I expect. We’ve all done it though, even those who say they’ve never once done even 1mph over the speed limit.