re: speeding - do you? How often? in what circs? AIBU???

[MissJacksonIfYourNasty]

I had a tiff with my DH today on the way home from visiting friends. He drove 90 mph on the motorway, 70 mph in a road clearly marked 50 mph and then 55-60 mph on a road marked 40 mph. I made a remark about how dangerous I thought it was, which he rubbished. He then came out with his stock remark 'When you learn to drive, you can do what you want'. (I failed my test last year and will start lessons again in the summer, when I have the time off and have scraped together the money). To which I gave my stock reply (this is an old argument, btw): 'It's my business when our kids are in the car'. Humphy silence followed on both sides (and he slowed down).

It just makes me so mad.

AIBU, though? Do all you drivers regularly speed? he certainly wasn't the only one whizzing down the dual carriageway at way over the speed limit. He doesn't speed on residential / town roads, btw, just A roads and motorways. And he is not usually a twat.

I go at 80/85 on motorways. I generally don't speed on lower speed roads but sometimes it happens. Not on 30mph or lower roads.

Usually 85 ish on the m/way. Usually go at what I deem to be a reasonable speed on dual carriageways etc but I never speed in 30 zones.

I do go around 80 on the motorway but don't speed in town.

A scary fact - although finding it difficult to put into words....

You are driving at 70mph when you see stationary traffic ahead. You slam on the brakes and come to a stop just behind the stopped car. If you had been going 100mph and braked at exactly the same time you would still be doing 70 mph when you crashed into the car in front

when in dh's car, i have to make a conscious effort to slow down. without realising it, i have been known to go over the 100mph mark. if you have a really good car, then its really difficult to gauge your speed sometimes when on a lovely clear stretch of the M40. everytime this has happened, i get upset at myself.
normal residential roads, usually stay in fourth gear, so even if road clear, i dont go above thirty.
forty roads, i stay well below the limit, and am probably more dangerous because of it. around here, the forties are paved with camera's and am sooo consious of not getting flashed by them, that i'm paying far more attention to the speedometer, than the road.

Yeah, I tend to go a little over... up to about 10% or thereabouts, so up to about 55 in a 50 and about 80 on a motorway. My feeling is that if I am caught and get points it's my own silly fault, no-one else's. However, if the road is busy or there are lots of parked cars (so a child might be hidden from view) I slow down.

I never speed, but I'm still learning. Hopefully when I pass I won't start, mostly because after years of godawful public transport I can fully appreciate that even without speeding around like a dickhead, driving around in a car is considerably faster than getting a bus.

i do speed on mways and dcw's, only in good weather and on roads i know; i never speed in built up areas.
i also never drive in anger. my ex drove on the mway at a ridiculous speed while angry with me and i was terrified

I'm confused by your miles instead of kilometres! How fast is 70mph?

I always speed on the motorway, and my DH always gives out about it. about 130 instead of 120 though , so usually there are a lot of people going by me going even faster.

I drive like a boy racer on the way to and from work when the roads are clear (we live in deserted rural area with very little traffic) but I drive like a little old lady when I've got DS in the car.

Oh and DH generally drives like a complete dickhead. When we lived in a city, if his driving got too aggressive then I would wait until he pulled up at a junction or traffic lights and just get out of the car and walk home without saying a word to him.

I know I've described my driving as being boy-racerish but I'm actually never rude or aggressive to other drivers, just a bit too fast!

up to 80 on a motorway if it's good weather, daylight and not busy. Lower than that, I'm very observant. That 'it's 30 for a reason' campaign where it explained that a child might live at 30 but die at 35 if you knocked them down was haunting. Never gone over 30 since.

I always stick to the speed limit, or within a mile or so anyway - except on a certain stretch of road. It's a dual carriageway flyover, a straight road, no oncoming traffic and I just cannot stick to 40 on it.

I speed on dual carriageways and motorways but never go above 30 in a 30 zone, and don't drive aggressively.

You are quite right that when dc are in the car and you can't agree on a speed, the driver should pick the lowest.

I also have strong views on speeding due to people I know, mainly children, who have been seriously injured or killed.

My sister's best friend was hit head on at 40 and killed at the age of 16, so if it can do that to a 16 year old imagine what you can do to a smaller child.

Speed limits are there for a reason.

It doesn't matter how good a driver you think you are, if you hit a person or vehicle at certain speeds you will probably kill them and possibly yourself. In my mind it's just not worth the risk, no matter how good you think you are bcasue you can never judge that someone isn't going to walk out/pull out.

And it makes me really cross that people worry more about getting caught, points, fins, etc than endangering livs!

No, I don't speed. The limits are there for a reason and as I passed less than years ago if I did it just twice, I would loose my license. Amazes me the amount of angry drivers up my arse when abiding by the speed limits, very intimidating.

I admit to going faster than 70mph on motorway. However it it is por weather conditions I don't and I reduce speed. I know I shouldn't but I do at times.

I don't tend to speed on other roads and definitely not in built up areas and towns. On housing estates I go below 30mph, and always observe lower limits where in lace. And never on country or winding lanes - if anything I go slower than speed limit on those.

I don't condone speeding. I do try and ensure I drive carefully and courtesily. I do pay attention to weather and road conditions.

I have never had a speeding ticket or points, etc.

Never, ever everin a built-up area. The village next to me is a 60. I do 20.

A fair bit on the motorway/dual carrigeway.

On motorways sometimes (along with everyone else it seems) but never in roadworks, even if they go on for miles and look like they've been abandoned).

I've noticed there's been a trend towards putting in lots of different speed limits recently round us so for the first 3 miles of our typical journey it goes... 30 outside house, 50 then 60 then 50 on bypass (1 mile), 40 down hill and round bend, 50 then 60 then 40 then 30 and that's before you've even got anywhere near a built up area. It's ok if you're familiar with the roads and used to the changes but they do seem a bit arbitrary (especially since most parts were 60 up until a year or so ago).

"MissJackson I have had similar conversations right down to 'when you drive...' "

same here. I can't stand it my dh (who only passed bout 18 months ago) also talks on the phone, he puts it on loudspeaker but there is about 10 seconds where he has to answer the phone press the button and put it in a place where it will stay put. I get absolutely livid