I just got pulled over for doing 32 in a 30

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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.

Whilst op was pulled over (given this was midday), I bet there were other people driving at 31-35mph going past. Especially because most people believe in 10%+2

So total waste of both of their time to pull her over.

There must be other traffic offences that they could be enforcing?

I miss the laughing reaction, this is hilarious 🤣

I mean, was it overkill to pull you over and get all hoity toity mentioning prosecution? Sure, but ultimately you were over the limit and you shouldn’t have been. You’re always going to get bloody jobsworths! I feel like shaking and feeling all hard done by and traumatised is rather OTT myself but I guess you feel how you feel!

You’re determined to argue back to anyone who does not agree with you.

There are three mirrors on your car for a reason. You’re supposed to use all three and you’re arguing that you don’t need any.

You’re not “innocent,” you’re fortunate that the police officer did his job well and only warned you.

Just accept you were in the wrong instead of making it worse.

But why do it?

I mean this kindly, but please stick to the speed limit, like you’re meant to. As others have said, the speed limit is there for a reason.

If you’d got away with it this time, what’s to stop you just going a couple of miles over just because you can - and then, God forbid, hitting a person or animal with your car?

The speed limit is a maximum not a when you feel like it…

I hope you do get caught and prosecuted for it. Your attitude is despicable and people like you are everything that is wrong with the world.

again, come back and tell us what a great driver you are when you’ve run over a kid because you can’t be bothered to stay under the limit because you’re too important for it to apply to you.

Careless drivers belong in the bin. Exceeding the speed limit is careless.

This

Totally agree about the concentration required. Also in London. You can’t have a conversation, pay even the tiniest bit of attention to listening to anything on the radio, total concentration on speed to the exclusion of everything else is required. I’m not saying I disagree with the limit because it saves lives but boy it’s difficult sometimes.

I’m from up north and when we drive back down the entire journey from leaving the M1 to our house in south London, about 1.25 hours of driving, is 20. It’s painful.

I think it’s fair to be shaking - I’m a law abiding person and having the police pull me over and threaten me would intimidate me. It’s a shock.

I am also disgusted that crime goes unpunished, and uninvestigated while they are pulling people over for this. Real crime. We have a real problem with lack of services and funding for police which means that their role is to prioritise. And whilst speeding IS illegal, it’s not burglary, assault, fraud, etc. My daughter recently had cause to report a man stalking her. A man with previous conviction. Who, she had evidence of, watching her at night, sending her anonymous letters and flowers, and chasing her down her street trying to gift her perfume. It took 15 days before the police came to interview her and another 9 days before they approached the man. They then claimed there was no proof the flowers were from him (the florist confirmed a description of him to daughter and confirmed willingness to share full customer details with police - they simply didn’t bother asking her (!) despite daughter giving her details to them and telling them that whilst she couldn’t break dpa to daughter she could to them. They have now agreed to collect evidence from florist but can’t say when (by which point the shops cctv will probably have been deleted)

Meanwhile, thank god some plod had plenty of time to sit in the car trapping people going 32 in a 30 …. That’s the real crime the public want squashed.

Not RTFT and maybe 32 in a 30 doesn’t seem bad, but I’ll bet this experience will make you think twice about creeping up to 75 in a 70 and THAT is where this police officer has made a difference.

You were breaking the law so he pulled you over and warned you

be grateful as you may now heed your speed

think it’s 10% over and possible fine and points so 1 more Mile and 33 in a 30 and he could have booked you

Exactly this. OP most people in real life would agree that this is a waste of police resources and actually a dangerous over reach of power in my opinion.

In real life no one wants their taxes being spent on police pulling over people doing 32 on a clear empty road.

They want the police to actually do something about the shoplifting, phone and bike theft epidemic, to catch and prosecute burglars and rapists.

I think a lot of Mumsnetters are sorry lockdown ever ended: during that time, they could preach and moralise to their hearts' content. As they can't curtain twitch on the neighbours hugging their grandchildren and more, now they have to settle for wearing a hi-vi of authority, and standing in the road pointing a hair drier at passing cars, pretending it's a speed gun.

The police need to concentrate on catching real criminals, drug dealers, paedos, rapists and murderers. Instead of harassing innocent motorists going a mere 2 miles over the limit.

It's supposed to be 10% of the limit +2 that they pull you over at anyway. Which is 35 in a 30mph zone.

I agree with you - it's a complete waste of police resources. I keep thinking of those police officers who arrested the two women out for a coffee and a walk during covid. Police officers like this do nothing for their reputation and trust in the community. They come across as bullies and bullies are not respected.
I think the people who support this use of resources by the police are the rigid thinkers in society, they can't help themselves and in a way I feel for them, life must be difficult when you are so fixated on rules and the frustration levels you feel when people slightly deviate must be very stress inducing - can't be good for their health.

I think Covid was different. The police covered themselves with shame generally with their over zealous behaviour during lockdown. I guess there was very little actual crime.

Agree its disgusting. 50% of mumsnet agree with that pc plod though, which says a lot about the doogooder mumsnet clientele!

It’s no different is was a poor judgement call in Covid and it’s a poor judgement call to pull over someone doing 32mph. Rigid thinkers with poor judgement exist Covid or kit.

Keeping people alive by preventing others from breaking the law isn’t wasting resources

given the hate for larger cars because they can hurt people more I am surprised and shocked that speeding is considered fair

the Reason that 20th zones are springing up ( default in Germany for example ) is that 30 is dangerous in residential areas , and 32 is more dangerous

there will be people here whose child died or had more serious injuries as a result of the “small” speeding . Sad so may parents think it’s ok / in 20 years time 32 in built up areas will seem as bad a no seatbelts

Intervention, including stopping people and warning them, against driving 2mph over a speed limit is more intrusive, heavy handed and pointless than the police enforcing Covid restrictions.

At least with Covid there was a risk of infection, of spread to others, of a systemic communicable health threat. Nobody ‘infects’ anybody with anything by driving slightly over 30mph.

According to Google the usual urban speed limit in Germany is 50kmh (31mph).

There was a particularly bad stretch of rd near me loads off accidents including a fatality
the police did a lots of work including education,prevention which mainly included pulling up like OP and warning them it was a great success

for the life of me I’m not getting the outrage
Sadly i think I it’s just societies attitude and level of entitlement nowadays