I just got pulled over for doing 32 in a 30

[dialdrunkforyou]

I’m shaking as I write this. I just drove out to walk the dogs and on my way back a police car pulled me over. I was doing 32 in a 30 and he said I was “lucky” that he’s not choosing to prosecute me over this.

AIBU or is this total overkill? It’s a dry sunny day, the roads are relatively quiet and I wasn’t driving erratically.

I've got 3 points for 23 in a 20 limit, so yes, you were lucky.

Definitely an overreach. They must have been desperate to catch somebody.

If you had been charged you’d have likely had the option of going on a speed awareness course which would show you the difference that 2 miles per hour would make to the injuries someone might have sustained had you hit them.

i used to be a magistrate and it was totally normal for people to be fined for being 1 or 2 miles over the speed limit.

It’s the line, it has to be drawn somewhere and you stepped over it.

So desperate they just gave her a warning, wouldn't have taken any of her details and sent her on her way.

The bastards.

I remember when I was learning to drive, my instructor yelling (good naturedly) at me all the time to “go faster” and “press the bloody gas” and “do the speed limit”. saying it was dangerous to go too slow, because people might overtake recklessly. The irony is that those very same main roads are now all 20mph, which is painfully slow, because probably done because some politician thought it might make them look green. (South London) Wasn’t this one of Boris Johnson’s bright ideas when he was London mayor? It might have been a forerunner to Partygate if he was caught doing 23mph on one of these roads.

More recently, I used a bus lane (at a time when it was allowed; indeed, you could fail a driving test for not doing so) on an extremely wide 20mph road, and I was overtaken by… wait for it… a bus. The irony!

The police have better things to be doing than this . There should be a discretionary leeway

You were lucky @dialdrunkforyou. I got a fine and three points for exactly the same offence.

There clearly is discretionary leeway as the OP wasn't prosecuted.

Example Thresholds (10%+2mph) which is discretionary in uk

30mph limit: 35mph
40mph limit: 46mph
70mph limit: 79mph

Your story does not tally, op whichever way you look at it.

Tell that to somebody who has a child injured or killed buy a speeding driver.

Great that your family find it a laughing matter that you were done for speeding. Clearly none of them have lost a loved one by being knocked down and killed. That would wipe the smile off their face if they had.

I think you’ve learned that if you confess to speeding on mumsnet, you will have your arse handed to you on a plate.

YANBU about the police ticking boxes on this, when they could be catching burglars, wife-beaters, and crooked post office chiefs.

Oops replied to wrong post.

It was the family in hysterics I found amusing.

Sorry!

Oh my lord am I reading these responses correctly?! 😂 2 miles over the speed limit is not speeding or dangerous. No one keeps perfectly at 30 at all times. My god. You’re fine OP

Traffic police do this now?

I got my points more than 30 years ago.

Traffic cops don’t usually go after burglars or domestic abuse perpetrators, and are rarely Police chiefs.

Mumsnet loves ‘boundaries’.

A speed limit is a boundary. You step over a boundary and there are consequences. If the consequence is a traffic cop giving you a telling off instead of taking your wi-fi access and games console away for a day giving you a fine and three points then that is proportionate.

So it doesn't matter what the law is if you have science on your side ?

Over the speed limit is over the speed limit. If you think the limit is wrong you are free to argue it before the judge. As a person on my SAC came close to being made to do when they started explaining why speed limits are "a joke" to the instructors.

People acting like they’ve never done 2mph over the speed limit by accident 🤣

My guess is you are a woman, the police officer a man? There's your answer for the admonishment assuming they saw a woman driving.

However if they didn't see who was driving, then bad luck I guess but to be fair, if their job was to catch and warn people going over the limit, it is what it is. Easily done and probably feels frustrating but the extra mph or two could affect a child hit.

They can redact personal information, lots of people share speeding documents online after removing identifiable parts.
If you look at the post by @Nolongera at 16:18 too. So many people claim that they’ve been offered courses or fixed penalties for 32 in a 30 but no one ever proves it.
The OP’s situation was just words of advice but I think they should request the body worn footage to be reviewed as pulling someone over for 32 in a 30 is not something that I have ever known an officer do and I’ve worked with police and dealt with traffic prosecutions for many years.

Just do the speed limit or slightly under then you won’t have the chance to be this indignant about someone pointing out you’re breaking the law?

How on earth are you making this sexist ffs.

What target is this officer achieving by giving words of advice to someone driving 2mph over the limit?