I found myself in that unfortunate position a few years back - having driven from Aberdeen down to Glasgow , by now late at night , and dark , my fuel light came on , so I turned off the M8 to go to Sainsbury’s which I knew was nearby .
A week or so later a FPN dropped through the letterbox, indicating that I had been pinged at 42 in a 30 , something I would never intentionally do .
The street name meant nothing to me , so I looked it up . This was an urban dual carriageway ( the one from Ibrox out to Renfrew , and just passing Luma Tower ) which had been a 40 limit as long as I could remember - but when I returned to the scene of the crime , the 40 signs ( previously it had gone from 30 to 40 just after the roundabout ) had been removed and there were little yellow ‘new speed limit in force’ signs .
A further visit at night , as it was when I was caught , showed that the road was full of parked vehicles , including vans big enough to obscure the signs .
Not worth arguing about though and I just paid the FPN without complaint . One insurer just said thanks for letting us know , and the other charged a £25 admin fee . Neither bumped their prices the next year .
