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

Your wasting your time. MN users are perfect In every way, they never speed.(not me, I speed every time I'm in a car)

You weren't pulled over I'd imaging you will be fine . But I'd keep an eye in the mail for the next 2wks .

Why? For example Germany has no mandatory speed limits, even their recommended speed limit is 10 mph higher than our mandatory.

Truth is the 30mph in a built up area is way more dangerous than 90mph on an empty motorway.

But it depends how you define bad

So what you are saying is that you are happy to break the law, and put peoples lives in danger, and only worry about it if you think you have been caught... What a messed up attitude!

Round here at night you might encounter plenty of things other than moving cars on the main road (60) at night:

a cyclist

someone walking a dog

a broken down car with no working electrics, so no lights

a deer running across the road

a fallen tree

(these are all things which drivers have collided with on main roads in my area in the past year or so)

Driving at 80 is ‘off the scale insane’ on a single carriageway road in the dark with no street lighting. Just because you’ve not hit anything so far, doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Risk assessment says that you avoid even an unlikely to happen risk if the consequences would be catastrophic.

Honestly they should take the license away when people speed to that extent, never mind 'please be kind' for fucks sake.

Hopefully you will have to do a course and see the reality for patients like mine who's lives are forever destroyed by feckless idiots.

Hello speedy
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Hopefully you won't get a ticket
I don't know about the ins and outs of the legal part

What I would say is take this as a warning:wake up call.

I was you. Driving home late at night, after a loooong ray just focusing on getting home in a semi familiar route
In what I thought was a 60 zone tootling through.

I Saw a flash in the mirror, realisied I was in the outskirts of a village and had hit the 30 without noting the sign,
I was going 54!! 😱
Utterly panicked that I was going to lose my license

I got away with it but I have been completely faithful to all limits since

Hope you are okay and not upset by other posters here today.

It really isn’t off the scale.

If cyclists aren’t in high vis and dog walkers step out into the road then it’s their own stupid fault I’d they get hit, no matter what the speed.

People on here always spout this nonsense as if it’s impossible to drive within the speed limit

This is one of my favourites. Everyone who states that it is impossible to maintain speed is admitting to being incapable of maintaining control of a vehicle

Who used the word impossible?

I don’t think anyone is justifying their speeding, but you can’t turn back time, it happens, and almost all speeding incidents result in no one being hurt, so hand wringing over something you can’t change is futile

By the same logic If you have been going faster ( especially faster than the speed limit) you wouldn't have been there at that exact moment in time either.

If neither of you ever drove a car neither of you would have been there either.

It's easy to blame speed, but speed really wasn't the reason for the accident. I am very sorry for what you have been through. Cars have not been good for humans yet we all still drive them

@TheObstinateHeadstrongGirl

It's up to you if you have a little cry about it. I couldn't give a shiny shit.

And bore off is such a tiresome response for someone with such an impressive but clearly misleading username!!

You deserve the highest penalty and fine. A relative was killed by a speeding driver, you are the lowest of the low. Why were you in such a hurry to go 20mph over the limit? I hope it was more important than someone's life.

No I won’t accept criticism from an unhinged uptight loon, and you’re opinion doesn’t mean shit to me. It happened, I’m over it, I was over it after about 4 seconds and I learnt my lesson.

You make yourself sound like dick. I've gone a few miles over but never 90 in a 60. That is stupid and you've not learned anything👍

So embarrassing at your age, you could probs be my mother if you were driving 20 years ago.

I got caught going 7pm over (by a camera) and had to do a course. I’m surprised they didn’t pull you over going 20 over the limit but you may get a letter

If cyclists aren’t in high vis and dog walkers step out into the road then it’s their own stupid fault I’d they get hit, no matter what the speed.

On many 60mph roads there's no pavement so walkers have to be on the main carriageway - drivers need to slow down and overtake when it's safe.

Many cyclists are hit even when they wear hi-vis, but I'm sure you feel better after a nice bit of victim-blaming

Morally MN'ers are above all judgement and never speed. Never done 33, or 34, unknowingky/unwittingly in a 30. Ever. For most it's utter rubbish.

Actually I think keeping to the speed limits have very little impact on safety or control of thr vehicle.

Most thirty speed limits should be 20 or even 10. There's very little difference safety wise between 30 and 40 in many 30 mph limits and 70and 80 on a motorway.

Unless you drive at 10 in front of schools and residential areas I have little patience for people preaching about 80 in an empty 60

I would suggest that @chupachump was quite correct in that assessment @3kidswouldfinishanyoneoff

Erm….I’m taking about cyclists who DON’T wear high vis. Too right I blame them if they get hit. not sure why you think that extends to cyclists who DO wear high vis?

And dog walkers shouldn’t be walking on 60mph roads at night with no high vis. It’s not up to drivers to see things that are impossible to see.

Play stupid games get stupid prizes.

@Kanaloa did in the post that I quoted

Our main road to the motorway has a 60 limit, no lighting, no pavements and meanders, so that there are parts that are quite straight, but you still can’t see if there’s a walker or cyclist. They both trump you, as a driver, and hitting them is your fault, in law and morally, as you are controlling the big killy metal thing. If you’re driving too fast for the conditions, you haven’t got enough time to react if you see something where you wouldn’t expect it to be. Good drivers aren’t ones who can handle their vehicle and feel they are safe at speed regardless of any external factors. Good drivers respond to the conditions, recognise what is safe, anticipate hazards and mitigate the risks.

On country roads I realise there are unlikely to be any pedestrians going for a stroll in the middle of the night.

However, there are other hazards to be aware of. Once I was in a car on a country road. The driver was driving fast (not speeding), then rounded a corner. He had to slam the brakes on immediately, as a cow had escaped from a field and was in the middle of the road.

Another time a friend of mine was driving on a country road on a dark, rainy night. Her car broke down just after a bend in the road. There was some kind of electrical or mechanical failure and the car just stopped. She got free of the car, but just as she got to the side of the road another driver (who was speeding) came round the corner, hit her car, flipped over and ended up in a ditch. Fortunately, in both incidents all people and animals were okay.

There are just so many things that can go wrong. I don't understand people who can happily drive at 80mph on a country road in the dark - I can only assume it's a failure of imagination regarding potential hazards, or the very dangerous assumption that because there has never been a cow/broken down car around the bend previously, there definitely won't be next time.

I don't know the statistics, but I wouldn't be surprised if the fatality level on country roads is higher than on motorways.

Seriously though if you choose to walk in dark clothes at night, on an actual 60mph carriageway you’re a fucking idiot and don’t be surprised if a car hits you. You can’t say “on but there was no pavement”. Don’t walk in it then! Are we no longer at liberty to exercise common sense?