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...
 
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.

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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