Speeding whilst overtaking on a single carriageway

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So today I was on way back from the supermarket on a local A road, I'm doing about 63ish but slowing as the car in front of me is doing about 44ish, the oncoming traffic is about a mile away so I overtake (might have got upto about 75, but straight back down once pulling back in to <65). Lucky me there's a mobile police van at about a mile and half in front (with good visibility of where I did the overtake) wondering if I'll get a ticket?

Although it is illegal to go over 60 on an SC, it's also safer to overtake quickly (and even the highway code teaches you that).... so a little perplexed as to what the police would do in that situation.
 
So whilst I see your point Gaygle do think there is the element of common sense to apply, the road is North Yorkshire, basically a long straight slightly uphill stretch, so if you're at the top looking down you do have a view of 1-1.5 miles (especially with good visibility, image a straight valley), but if they can't tag you from a mile away, then yeah I'm probably okay then.
 
I'm not trying to argue they would be wrong to give me a ticket and as "Regt53" says I will 'suck it up', I guess just more interested in the reality of what a police officer would think. Googling around I've seen mention of a few cases where it actually went to court and the magistrate reduced the fine...... and more generally is it the right use of the law. In a similar way, I was watching on of those terrible police interceptor programs a while back and the copper is following a silver S3, if a police car isn't fitted with a laser system they can use their own speedo to see if they are breaking the law but must follow them for a certain amount of time, interesting the copper in that case, was waiting to see if the speeding was *persistent* and I think he even used the phase "I'll see if he slows down".... with overtaking the speed increase is very temporary, and not a persistent thing, and with the overall goal of the RTA it's about increasing safety (not slowing motorists down). I guess my thinking (and I'm wondering if a coppers would be too) that going over the speed limit (lets say below 20% over) to pass a slow moving car (whilst illegal) is probably safer than trying to pass a car going 50 and say 52 mph (which is legal if it is even possible to assume that is safe at any time on UK roads). Just interested...
 
danlightbulb said:
Apparently in Spain you are allowed upto 20 km/h over the posted limit for an overtake maneuver. a lot of sense in this. We have some stupid rules here on speed limits.
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I checked that out and it's actually true :) "Drivers of cars and motorcycles may exceed the limits shown by 20km/h in order to overtake a slower vehicle outside built-up areas, on roads with one lane in each direction." clearly the Spanish have more common sense than us!
 
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