to be annoyed by this police car

[stoppingat3]

Driving along the M25 this morning at about 7.00am, very busy stretch of road that by some miracle was doing ok.
Everyone was travelling along at about 80 mph.
We come around the corner and there is a police car that is driving at the same sort of speed, maybe a bit slower, It then starts to speed up (so do we) and then move between the lanes telling everyone via a flashing message that the limit was 70.
Now I know that is the limit, I have passed my test and I am sure that I will get the response that its against the law to go faster (I get thatm I'm a lawyer) but this is a very busy stretch of road that was behaving well but within minutes there was a clog of people behind us sticking to 70.
I know its not the most annoying thing in the world but just wanted to vent at the jobsworthy nature of the two policepeople in the car!

FWIW I agree with you.

I'm afraid I'm with everyone else here, it's their job to enforce the speed limit. They were probably specilist motorway police so they're not out annoying you instead of chasing bag snatchers, they only work on the motorways.

However, the bunching up is caused by bad driving. When one person in front just touches the brakes (and therefore their brake lights come on) the person behind brakes a bit harder, the person behind them brakes even harder, and so on. If people just judged the distance and braked to keep the same distance between cars rather than taking someone else's brake lights coming on as a cue to slam on, we'd have a lot less bunching up on the motorways.

specialist

If you're not stirring, you might want to refer back to your law books regarding speed limits in this country.

I guess though you lawyers would be out of a job if everyone stuck to the law, so your post is probably to be expected.

Stoppingat3 - did you see the pile up that happened in Germany. How many cars was it? Over 200.

Sorry, but YABU and a bit like my husband when he is driving down a residential road.

Me 'You are speeding'
Him 'No I'm not, I'm going 37'
Um, speeding then. Repeat same conversation on motorway where anything below 90 is not speeding. This is why I now drive.

I thought this was a funny bit.

" It then starts to speed up (so do we)"

Well you'd have to wouldn't you. Can't have someone else going faster than you are.

"within minutes there was a clog of people behind us sticking to 70" tickled me.

I mean, honestly, 70 on a motorway?? What is the world coming to. Do a steady 80 or above and get well away from the slow coaches, that's what I say

It was such a ridiculous OP that I couldn't believe she wasn't simply filling time til home-time. Or perhaps it's the subject of a forthcoming article in the DM??

Stoppingat3 not all traffic cars have TRAFFIC written on them, in fact very few do, the only cars that tend to have something written on them (aside from Police obviously) are the dog cars/ARV.

The fact that it had the electronic sign on board suggests it was a traffic car, so therefor they were doing their job.