Been caught speeding

[speedy49]

Help sorry I know this isn't AIBU but traffic

Tonight literally 15 mins ago so 00:40 ish I was driving home about a 10 minute journey on a road with a 60mph limit.
I was doing about 80. Yes I know I was in the wrong please dont bash me.
Then I got to my turning, turned in, and realise there was a police car behind me pretty much the whole time.
Now I'm freaking out because I know I was speeding and I know they were behind me. But they could have pulled me over and didn't, didn't even flash me?
I don't have any points, never paid any fine, never taken a speed awareness course.
Has anyone ever had a similar experience, if so did it end in a ticket or not?
Very worried, please be kind I know I was in the wrong

I got points and fine when doing 45 in a 30. That was annoying. I think it works on percentages.

Also this was a decade ago so might have changed.

This!! 😳

I had to do a speed awareness course recently for doing 36 in a 30 (no points, and the "fine" was having to pay for the course).

I felt absolutely shit about myself even for being "not much" over the limit. I wasn't pissed off at being caught; I was very pissed off with myself for not having taken sufficient care and for not having been vigilant. I can't begin to imagine how you could be doing 80 in a 60 limit and apparently not care about anything other than being caught.

It has acted as a huge warning and wake-up call to me (I've been driving for 35 years without incident until now - though this has probably made me less careful than I should have been).

Your being a bit dramatic

@Hellsmovie, how so? Please do tell

A police officer is not an arsehole for enforcing the law - it's their job!

@Icedlatteplease you are wrong to say that speeding does not cause accidents. Of courses it does. If you are going more slowly you are more likely to be able to stop if there is an obstruction. You might avoid running over a child for example. You are also more likely to be able to control your car at lower speeds, for example on bends or ice. If speed did not cause accidents there would be no need for speed limits.

Insurance premiums do not go up if you have 3 points because the statistics show that drivers with 3 points are not any more likely to claim than those with no points. Insurance is purely based on claim statistics remember (if you work in insurance you should know that!). Interestingly insurance premiums decrease if you have a black box - which is mainly there to discourage speeding. So clearly insurance companies do think speeding causes claims, just not that having 3 points causes claims.
There could be a lot of reasons for that. I'd speculate that most drivers speed just they haven't all been caught, so it doesn't indicate any underlying difference. Premiums do go up if you have 9 or more points, I guess that's the point at which it indicates someone who speeds a lot and doesn't care if they get caught. Also points stay on your licence a few years so more experienced drivers are likely to have more. The first year of driving is known to be the most dangerous.

I was making that statement as I felt that the person I was responding to was against the police. I have in the past worked for the police in traffic prosecutions as a civilian and in the years I worked for them I never had a problem with any of the many officers I dealt with.

The right foot works quite effectively for most people 😉

No sympathy. I hope you get punished. No excuse is ever good enough.

80 miles in a 60 limit is ridiculous. You should be banned.

Dont you think she would of been pulled over if it was deemed dangerous .

This is why police officers are better than speed cameras. You get the human element that can judge every situation individually.

SPEEDING ISNT AUTOMATICALLY DANGEROUS!!

…but it is automatically illegal. So she should have been pulled over, even if that was only so the police could give ‘words of advice’. As it is, OP seems to have learned nothing from this experience so is likely to repeat her behaviour, and next time the results might not be so benign.

Can you get caught speeding on a dual way. I was going one way and the policeman was parked in a lay bay. On the other side of the dual . I think I was doing 70. But also I think he just had a normal mobile. Normal police car also.

Yup 👍