Speeding

[JHS]

Maybe your phone's slow...

Bugger, never thought of that!

 

[Germgh0st]

Speedo calibration is always on the side of caution.

My SL speedo reads 70 when I'm doing 68.

Yes I'm aware car speedos are designed to err on the high side. My point was if you start questioning over calibration etc when the margin is so small they generally just don't bother putting up a fight.

 

[sgregory124]

Yes I'm aware car speedos are designed to err on the high side. My point was if you start questioning over calibration etc when the margin is so small they generally just don't bother putting up a fight.

Speaking of calibration and not putting up a fight - someone I work with got pulled on Saturday night in his new (to him) M140i. He was actually clocked at 80mph on the A453 coming out of Nottingham, but passed a marked car on a slip road at in excess of 140mph - the traffic car (Skoda VRS) had to do 135mph with blue lights just to catch-up with him.

However, the astonishing part here is he got away with a stern warning - told he was a 'bell end' for driving that quick and and a comment that his car was 'nice' and his brother had one. I'm assuming that the officer in question hadn't got logging/recording enable or, didn't manage to measure my mates speed over the set distance required to prove he was speeding.

No matter which way you look at it, a lucky escape...

 

[SpikyMikey]

Speaking of calibration and not putting up a fight - someone I work with got pulled on Saturday night in his new (to him) M140i. He was actually clocked at 80mph on the A453 coming out of Nottingham, but passed a marked car on a slip road at in excess of 140mph - the traffic car (Skoda VRS) had to do 135mph with blue lights just to catch-up with him.

However, the astonishing part here is he got away with a stern warning - told he was a 'bell end' for driving that quick and and a comment that his car was 'nice' and his brother had one. I'm assuming that the officer in question hadn't got logging/recording enable or, didn't manage to measure my mates speed over the set distance required to prove he was speeding.

No matter which way you look at it, a lucky escape...

With luck like that, I hope he instantly went out and bought a lottery ticket!

 

[sgregory124]

With luck like that, I hope he instantly went out and bought a lottery ticket!

I must mention that to him lol He was somewhat disappointed he wasn't going to feature on 'Traffic Cops', given he was stopped by a Notts car and not Derby

 

[SpikyMikey]

I must mention that to him lol He was somewhat disappointed he wasn't going to feature on 'Traffic Cops', given he was stopped by a Notts car and not Derby

On second thoughts, the lottery ticket is probably a waste of time. He's probably used up all his luck doing 140 and getting off with just a bølløcking

 

[Big Janner]

Yes I'm aware car speedos are designed to err on the high side. My point was if you start questioning over calibration etc when the margin is so small they generally just don't bother putting up a fight.

Yup, can't argue with that.

 

[ALFAitalia]

Always been my position.

If my memory serves me correctly, I've been pulled for speeding 18 times, varying from 34 in a 30 by a camera, to having a police car follow me for 7 miles on the M40 before I dropped below 100mph when they very decently, 'clocked' me at 99.28mph

It was my choice (or inattention that caused me) to speed, so, I take the points/awareness course and continue to try to improved ( not successfully, if my record is taken into account)

18 times!!? Good effort.....!!!
In my 37 years of driving, the same number on fast bikes, I've only been stopped twice for speeding.. Once on my bike in 1989 for 41 in a 30...so that was fair and I took the points (was not a build up area by the way) and again just before Xmas just gone 35 in a 30.....but he was not interested in my speed, they were just using it as an excuse to do "random" breath tests as part of the Xmas anti drink drive campaign so he just told me to keep the speed down....I passed the breadth test of course! Never been had by a fixed camera.....yet. By your standards I clearly must try harder!

 

[Big Janner]

18 times!!? Good effort.....!!!
In my 37 years of driving, the same number on fast bikes, I've only been stopped twice for speeding.. Once on my bike in 1989 for 41 in a 30...so that was fair and I took the points (was not a build up area by the way) and again just before Xmas just gone 35 in a 30.....but he was not interested in my speed, they were just using it as an excuse to do "random" breath tests as part of the Xmas anti drink drive campaign so he just told me to keep the speed down....I passed the breadth test of course! Never been had by a fixed camera.....yet. By your standards I clearly must try harder!

My efforts do look to be pretty careless 18 times in 53 years.
Average miles drived in the UK
2019 7090
2018 7059
2017 7134
2016 7250
I always thought it was around 10,000 miles, so I have always used this figure.
Over the 53 years, I've averaged 30,100 miles/yr. (1,600,000 miles driven, to date)
Or, at 10,000 miles a year, 160 years worth of driven miles
As I've averaged a speeding ticket once every 2.9 years, it equates to being pulled just under once every 10 years (I've done a little rounding of figures throughout), based on miles driven.

I use this measure very simply because, the more time spent on the road, the greater the chances become of getting pulled.
I have more miles to become careless in, simplz

If we use the 7250 miles figure, I have the equivilent of 220 years driving under my belt
This means my 18 tickets would equate to once every 12 years for an average driver
This sounds a lot better
I might use this figure from now on

 

[Dippo]

That's one of the most interesting applications of man maths that I've seen for a long time.

 

[ALFAitalia]

Over 30,000 miles per year every year.....WOW.....amazing you found any time to work!!

 

[ToeKnee]

800,000 miles driven over last 20 years, only one speeding ticket! What am I doing right??

 

[ALFAitalia]

Another serious miles driver.....40k per annum is about 5 times my miles (well at least in my car....I do about another 10k in company trucks and vans).

 

[sgregory124]

Been driving since 1995, used to do serious miles in previous jobs (30k per year) - only ticket(s) i've ever had are two for being in the same bus lane in the same 2 week period.

Never been ticketed for speeding, but certainly been chased with blue lights and sirens for it on the M1 many years ago

 

[JefferiesFarnol]

I have a hill on the way to work just as the 30mph limit ends and my car is a 1.8 Rover 75 so if I don't get up to 40 before the hill in 3rd I will be seriously trundling up the slope so I have to break the limit for a little bit.

 

[clk320x]

A decade or so ago Speed cameras used to be only in locations where a fatal or serious collision had taken place.

Does anyone know if that's still the case?

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Not sure about fixed speed cameras, but speed camera vans seem to sit wherever it is they can make the most money.

There’s a bridge on a dual carriageway around here they love to sit on, it’s only ever on nice sunny days they come out…. It’s a 60mph dual carriageway with brilliant visibility.

 

[zipdip]

Not sure about fixed speed cameras, but speed camera vans seem to sit wherever it is they can make the most money.

There’s a bridge on a dual carriageway around here they love to sit on, it’s only ever on nice sunny days they come out…. It’s a 60mph dual carriageway with brilliant visibility.

Well you are right at the start of mobile speed cameras the rules were they had to be at sites where a serious accident had happened,that lasted a very short time,it was expanded to where there had been minor RTA's,and when that did not produce the revenue required they were allowed to go anywhere,which included on bridges over major roads.
The highway code was changed because the speed cameras lost their speeding convictions because the code said no parking on bridges.

 

[zipdip]

Well yesterday on the A12 at Witham I saw my first mobile speed camera in ages around here,parked in a layby on a bend,I was puzzled as it is a 70mph road,although SWIMBO had to say maybe it is 50mph because of road works,always helpful with those remarks,anyway it is 1.15 pm as I go past it ,I was not speeding,and on my way back home at 8pm it was still there so not so much a mobile but a static mobile van,what a nice touch on the bank holiday by the greed cameras.

 

[MEMERC7]

Nearly got caught out forgetting that a camera van is sometimes parked in a lay-by about 50 yards from a fixed camera on a section of dual-carriageway. Very crafty because a 60mph limit starts just prior to a sharpish left-hand bend & if you're in the outside lane & new to the area you see the camera first, because the van is effectively in the dead ground to your left. Should you be speeding than by the time you've spotted the fixed camera the van has already zapped you.
A scenario replicated on another section of dual-carriageway where a clump of trees between each carriageway & after a slight uphill right hand curve hides a camera van. You can belt past it without even knowing its there, not so for others coming the other way as it can be seen for miles.

 

[Big Janner]

Over 30,000 miles per year every year.....WOW.....amazing you found any time to work!!

As I made clear that's the average
We found time to work by leaving home at 4.00hr and getting to the hotel at any time after 18.00hr.

For example: leave Chelmsford at 04.15hr, arrive at Plymouth dockyard at 08.15 hr (approx). Arrive at the Hotel at 17.30hr ish.