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.

What are talking about? Your comments are just silly now.

Why are you so scared about this? That's weird. If there's a limit it's a limit if 30 isn't the limit ,would you expect everyone to say it's 32 or 40 or should there be no limit

Lone police officer OK if the police car has a calibrated speedometer.

No clue if it's already been mentioned as not read 25 pages of thread but surely you could avoid this if you actually walked with your dogs on their walk instead of taking them in the car? That is the bit I find strange

Not so close I couldn't see road furniture (and have an appropriate braking distance).

50 yards. Do you know how far 50 yards is? 😂

Black boxes are used for the driver to work with the insurer to reduce their premiums. Nothing to do with 1984.

The law's black and white. You were doing over the speed limit.

Having watched too much Police Interceptors he was probably hoping there was something else and quite possibly might have been. Shaking seems a bit extreme so was there something else or are you just a bit of a drama queen?

You say that ... but when they first came out, there was a rather unhealthy obsession with how much wonderful data they could deliver that could be flogged to marketing firms. I mean 14 Tb* of data has to have some hidden gems in it right ?

The only problem with that genius idea was that the people who tended to use black boxes (telematics) weren't the millionaires you'd need for such ad-flinging.

Also all new cars are quietly logging that data whether you know or not.

14Tb - 14 Terabytes or 14000 Gigabytes. A lot of disk drives !

However if the driver had being doing 30 (the speed limit) the posters sil would have likely survived.

Surely you can infer from that information that the speed limit is there for a reason, to reduce deaths.
Yes if the driving had been looking she would not have been hit, but if the driver had not been driving over the speed limit she would likely have lived.

You were speeding you got caught, tough luck, try to do better next time and not speed

Tell you what then, let's drive defensively and within the law and keep our fingers crossed that everyone else will. Oh, or maybe we'll come across OP and her like.

Overkill - unless we’re in cars that have limiters were in danger of gluing our eyes to the speedometer instead of keeping them on the road.

No, it didn’t. Every speedo is calibrated to show over. You would have been going at least 35 on your car to flag as 32.

Pay more attention and don’t let your speed creep up.

I was going to say YANBU but having read your posts you sound utterly entitled, and BU.

You admit you were over the speed limit with a police car right behind you? What did you expect? What kind of message would it give if the copper ignored you?

You didn't even get a ticket so if I was you I'd be thinking I'd had a lucky escape, not bitching about the police doing their jobs.

The speed limit isn't conditional on the weather, the gradient or how much of a great driver you think you are.

This is just not true.

You’re avoiding accountability for the contradictory comments you’ve made on this thread.

No I’m not. You’ve just been grubbing around trying to make a point. And you’ve failed.

Don’t be so foolish.

Triggered

Oh for god’s sake.

Google Maps has a feature that shows your current speed and the current speed limit. Useful!

Ooh, that sounds like a fun half term activity to keep the kids entertained, thanks for the suggestion.

@dialdrunkforyou

I like your username 😁

Is there a Covid equivalent of Godwin’s Law?

Good point actually

It pops up in every circumstance these days.

The current speed limit is so often incorrect it’s practically useless.

I think the difference is that most people would hold their hands up and call it a fair cop, apologise if it was unintentional, and then try harder not to do it again....

Pretty much the opposite attitude to OP's