OP, from your posts.
AIBU or is this total overkill? It’s a dry sunny day, the roads are relatively quiet and I wasn’t driving erratically.
Where does it say you are OK to drive above the limit on dry sunny quiet days (the French, sensibly, reduce their speed limits in wet weather, they don’t increase them for dry, sunny, quiet days).
Yes, you shaking is overkill. You should be suitably contrite and appreciative you haven’t been prosecuted.
Because it’s a slight downhill?
I’ve already said – this isn’t going to wash with the Magistrates.
Nope. The speedo showed me at 32.
If you knew your speedo told you 32, which was over the limit, why didn’t you bring your speed down immediately instead of continuing to break the law?
oh give over. If I was doing 35 I’d understand but a couple of MPH on a clear road with a slight downhill isn’t speeding.
Yes it is.
I just think it’s a bit silly. About two miles away there’s a town full of drug addicts and drunks who make part of the town a no go area. But they’d rather pull over innocent people!
Does that mean you don’t want any traffic offences dealt with because the Police should be dealing with other potential offenders ? Are you aware many other offenders are caught by being stopped for traffic offences ?What part of exceeding the speed limit makes you ‘innocent’?
Because he was very intimidating, I’m a woman on my own and he was treating me like a criminal
If he acted inappropriately you need to report him, although I wonder why you think you should be treated differently to a man on his own. However, he was treating you like a person who had broken the law…..
But I was. (in response to ‘you weren’t innocent’)
You were – you were guilty of breaking the speed limit.
This is exactly it. He’s a man on his own, seen a lone woman doing 32 and decided to exercise a power trip.
As I said above, if he acted inappropriately then report him and prove he was on a power trip. He was doing his job.
You’re not going to the magistrates for 32 in a 30 😂
Trust me, you might.
This is how I feel. My town has a huge crime problem. But instead of spending time on that, they’re doing this.
Also, if his Speedo said 32, he must have been doing it too. So he was also just as in the wrong!
I don’t think Traffic cops investigate the other crimes mentioned. As I said previously, higher level criminal are often caught through traffic offences. Also, if we didn’t have Traffic cops we could all drive however we decided was OK. Are you Ok with drug dealers screeching round at 70 outside your children’s schools ?
Oh, please, don’t bring out the ‘if I was over the limit, so was he’ argument. How do you think the Police catch people if they don’t chase them? Burglars, drug dealers, murderers all get away if they put their foot down if the Police can't drive over the limit.
I tend to pay attention to the road ahead of me, which is what you’re taught to do.
Errrr, what do your think that mirror in the middle of the windscreen is for. apart from doing your make up in? Not just for Mirror, signal, manoeuvre but as you travel.
Genuine question. What would stop you from breaking the law in future?
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Oh, and congratulations for posting a thread which has ticked off about 10 boxes on my MN Bingo card for 2026