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

You would've been pulled over and even then they need evidence. Out of interest I presume the police car was keeping up with you so also speeding?
Those saying would you do 50 in a 30, there's a massive difference in roads that are a 30/60. 60 is NSL and when I think of the roads I regularly use that are NSL they are major A roads and country lanes. Roads that don't have pedestrians walking down. Obviously speeding increases the likelihood of there being an accident but I wouldn't say OP was 'lucky' to not hit anyone as there wouldn't have been anyone to hit on those sort of roads unless you mean other vehicle drivers.

Be kind?
So when someone is doing 20mph over the limit around you/your offspring/your relative you will ask whomsoever is killed/injured to be kind to the driver?
Entitled arrogance of the hughest order. V selfish

And no, I've never driven at 80 in a 60 zone. Can't say that I've never nudged over the speed limit, but certainly nowhere to that extent. Not sure how that's being 'holier than thou'.

Exactly this, I live in the country, all the roads from my house are country lanes with 60mph limits, not once have I ever reached 60 as it would be absolutely ridiculous and completely unsafe to go at that speed. It’s a limit not a target.

It's not holier than thou to obey the speed limit.

Obeying the speed limit doesn't mean you're a slow driver.

And it's easy to speed if you're a fuckwit who doesn't pay enough attention when driving.

I personally hope OP does get a fine, but unfortunately like many of the selfish and feckless will probably get away with it and will be on here in a few months reassuring the next selfish feckless driver they won't have any consequences for driving dangerously.

MN is the land of holier-than-thou sanctimony, so it's funny to get pushback on it for one of the few things that actually is a moral issue: driving safely and legally.

I'm a bit surprised that. you're freaking out. You must have known you were risking this every minute that you were speeding? If you take a risk you need to be prepared to accept the consequences.

Statistically it's not overly likely you will mow someone down at that time of night whether you were driving at 40 or 80 unless there were standing in the middle of the road

I'm not going to have a go at you for speeding since plenty of others have already done that, but if you are prepared to speed then you need to accept that you might get points or a fine for it.

If you can't accept that, then don't speed. If you do get one in the post, accept it with good grace, and think about what's more important for you in the future - going fast, or having a license.

@WestBridgewater Surely if they had been concerned about her safety, they would have been more likely to pull her over before she wrapped her car round a tree rather than waiting until after the event. I know not all police officers are arseholes, but I'm presuming most of them have a bit of common sense. She was driving at 80mph in a 60mph zone. They were probably busy on a call out, rather than following her to make sure she was safe. Unless we're all living in an episode of Heartbeat.

Most accidents aren't caused by speed.

The injuries may be exacerbated by speed but 60 to 80 vs a pedestrian wont make a blind bit of difference they both have a low chance of survival.

The one of the most dangerous thing you can do on a road is turn right, especially accross the path of a pedestrian. Most people will still do turn right without a second thought.

Fund raising speeding fines really have skewed perception of risk

80k in a 60k limit area is ridiculously dangerous. And your defensiveness of it is worrying. I hope you don't do it again and kill someone next time.

The speed limit is far too low in this country.

My post last night was deleted, I assume because I used a naughty word. There's so much nastiness on these boards but tell someone not to drive like a .... and it gets deleted.

Priorities huh.

She never said the police were doing the same speed. Just that they were behind her. That doesn't mean immediately behind her tailgating.

I think some of you need to exert more authority in your real lives because the school mistress nonsense happening in here, which isn’t the least but helpful to the OP, is beyond OTT and pathetic and indicative of some sort of desperation to piss someone off.

Do you want to all be told you’re a better person than the OP? Would that make you happy?

Ever had a family member permanently disabled by a speeding driver?

Those people gleefully wishing a NIP in the post for OP are going to be sorely disappointed.

They would have pulled you over if they were going to give you a ticket x

Why should anyone be helpful to the OP? What purpose will that serve?

Many have said they likely won't get a ticket if they weren't pulled over at the time. What else does the OP need apart from learning it's not ok to speed.
They're not a victim of anything, they haven't made a terrible but easy mistake. They deliberately drove too fast and are panicking because a police car saw them.

Does that ever happen? Where a driver was aware and driving with caution only above the limit, and that's what caused an accident? I just don't buy it.

It’s very unlikely anything will come of it, they would most likely have pulled you over there and then. Even if they do issue you a ticket the NIP will need to arrive within 14 days so if you haven’t heard anything by then you’ll be in the clear. In the worst case you’d be within the band for a £100/3 points fixed penalty so no need to sweat as you have a completely clean license. Just use this as a learning experience and be more vigilant about your surroundings.

To have stayed behind her for a period of time absolutely does mean they were travelling the same speed. Unless the police were tailgating at the start, in which case I think the OP would have noticed. They do not need to be tailgating to travel at the same speed.

This is why gcse science is so important

I got caught doing 24 in a (non residential) 20 zone a couple of years ago. Knew nothing until a letter arrived, they didn't pull me over at the time. I don't even recall seeing police, but they are known for sitting with their lights off at this unlit location.

No offer of a speed awareness course. £100 fine and 3 points.

Oh FGS - that hasn’t happened in OP’s case, and I don’t like to live my life berating people after the fact on things that are incredibly unlikely to happen. Especially on a clear, empty road.

I stand by my point - people frothing with delight at sticking the boot into the OP, I think doing this is the highlight of some people’s day.

And I don’t appreciate these emotionally manipulative extremes to trip me up either. Other people would think “oh shit I’d better be gracious when you’re talking about ill family members” but I don’t mind telling you to get a grip, not everything everyone else does is about you and your situation and it’s not healthy to get so OTT.

Neither do 8. A clear, empty road at a speed that isn’t off the scales insane - how can you crash into cars that aren’t there?