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.

Perhaps he hadn't explained his circumstances fully to the insurance company

As far as I’m aware disclosing your shift pattern to your insurance company isn’t a requirement?

But surely the shakes go as soon as you are aware you aren't being arrested for something serious, just given a warning for a minor speeding issue.

But presumably he explained after their communication and they were then aware?

In theory they are right that you were speeding, but it’s almost impossible not to go a tiny little bit both under and over the speed limit occasionally. There is so much proper speeding and dangerous driving out there you’d think the police would have other drivers to contend with before they focused on those doing 2 miles over. So for me it’s overkill.

No, he waited until his insurance was up for renewal and binned them off. Because what is that about?

Could you try and paint yourself as a victim here any more?

You were just over the speed limit, you got told off, end of. Whether you disagree with where the police expend their energy is neither here nor there, if you hadn't been speeding, it wouldn't have happened. You are not a victim in this circumstance.

I can’t believe this is still going. A whole thread about that time I didn’t get a speeding ticket 🤣🤣

You've never gone over the speed limit even by 1mph?
Unbelievable.

Where have they said they haven’t ever gone over the limit? I can’t see it in the post you refer to.

Never seen so much rubbish posted about someone who was speeding, didn’t get a ticket, makes a massive fuss about it because they are annoyed.

They will. We will all end up like the Chinese, permanently watched and controlled and punished for minor misdemeanors while the ruling-class do whatever they like with zero consequences for them.

I do think it's a bit excessive esp when they don't come out to burglaries etc (in our area anyway). There must be different budgets for policing areas.

It's priced into the premium for the car.

We need to be careful with all this lovely data we are happily hoovering up and storing. The underlying principle of insurance is to spread the risk in a population based on the uncertainty of risk. The more data we have the more we can narrow down the risk and effectively make some people uninsurable (and therefore much more likely to drive without insurance).

The same applies to all these screenings we have these days. A lot of folk will slowly discover they can't get health insurance. Or life insurance.

"Big Data" was a thing that was briefly fought back. However all this "AI" they are so good at is it's bastard son.

The posters saying that it’s easy not to go over a speed limit or that they’ve never done that are being very, very economical with truth, IMO.

As I’ve said, it’s easy to see how many do go a little over a speed limit by looking at the speed measuring signs. Very many drivers do. I suspect they mostly do slow down after being in the red on one of those signs, so good. But the simple fact is that we all break the limit a little, without any carelessness at all.

I suppose there might be MNers who crawl along at 10mph in a 20 zone or 15mph in a 30 zone. But I doubt it. And posters never seem to accept that 30s turn into 20s frequently, which makes dropping the speed beforehand difficult if you don’t know the road.

Yeh, parking neighbours and speeding always brings lots of traffic 😏

Lazy policeman ticking an easy box to hit his monthly target while avoiding real police work.

Sheep

Yeh traffic cops should be out catching serial killers.

He didnt hit any targets by talking to her.

How many have said that in this thread?

How did the police clock you? They won't be using an adjusted speed, they'll be measuring your actual speed, so it's more likely you were doing 32 and your speedo was showing 34-37

Communication

HTH

I wish my reach was that length; I have problems reaching far enough to close car doors sometimes.... 😊

I don’t know how many more times I need to say my speedo said 32.

But he didn't tick a box because he didn't issue a ticket.

Cat