Speeding

megakid · 16 Apr 2012 at 17:13

R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
I've never had an issue doing ~80 on a motorway (except in my HGV!) I was stopped once on the M5 in Somerset, I had been travelling around 80 when I was pulled over, it turned out my numberplate was loose (only held on with double sided tape) and that was the reason I was stopped.

I freely mentioned my speed to the officer when he asked me how fast I was going and he said as - at the time - I was driving a BMW 7 Series that had good tyres & was in good condition, he had no issue, especially given i was flowing with everybody else as opposed to trying to make progress through the traffic as such.

He said, the road conditions, speed, condition of the car / type of car were big considerations, the biggest was the attitude of the driver once being spoken too.

Food for thought.

That's reassuring. I just returned from a trip around Europe (~3500 miles in 10 days) and didn't see many police around but I'd rather see more considerate police and less brain-dead cameras around. I got to silly speeds on an empty autobahn a few days ago and it's surprising how slow cruising at 100mph seems afterwards!

I feel like the car and condition of the car is an important factor that is mostly ignored by many.

Kalpsn2000 · 16 Apr 2012 at 21:58

megakid said:
That's reassuring. I just returned from a trip around Europe (~3500 miles in 10 days) and didn't see many police around but I'd rather see more considerate police and less brain-dead cameras around. I got to silly speeds on an empty autobahn a few days ago and it's surprising how slow cruising at 100mph seems afterwards!

I feel like the car and condition of the car is an important factor that is mostly ignored by many.

+1

ScarySquirrel · 16 Apr 2012 at 22:05

88 in a 70, 3 points and a £60 fine

Jonny ///M · 16 Apr 2012 at 23:25

ScarySquirrel said:
88 in a 70, 3 points and a £60 fine

That's pretty harsh! It's almost hard to drive at the speed limit sometimes.

Most of the time the traffic is sitting at about 80, even doing 100 I had a passat wanting to get past me

but I just move over and don't cause any road rage ****.

Johnnytoxic · 17 Apr 2012 at 09:34

edscdk said:
I got pulled for speeding and when asked how fast was going I said "about 90" the officers said something like "I did not catch that, did you say you were not sure"..

I think he was telling me not to admit it since there was no way he could not not caught what I was saying!

nm.