Speeding.....when do you do it?.....is it ever 'OK'?

reduceditem

Let's hear it.........

squack

on some rural roads which I am familiar with,in dry conditions with low volumes of traffic, where for no good reason the 60 limit has arbitrarily been reduced over the past few years to 50 or even 40

stevemcol

Yes it is sometimes OK; never legal though. In the same way, the speed limit is sometimes too high for the prevailing conditions.

mcjordi

Motorways and when im on blue lights...

Ebe_Scrooge

I've driven cars at well over 120mph before now - on track days :-)

As a previous poster said, yes it's OK in certain conditions, though illegal.

I my view, doing 85mph on a clear, dry motorway in a well-maintained car is far less dangerous than the nutter that overtook me last night. He was doing probably 60mph - dual carriagway, so perfectly legal - but it had been raining hard all day, massive lakes of standing water all over the road, dark, heavy fog. Everyone else on the road was doing about 40mph, as that was a safe speed for the conditions. So which is more dangerous - him, or 85mph on a clear dry motorway ? But which one is illegal, according to the letter of the law ?

63Brummie

Speeding is never ever ok...especially by the old bill as they are at best average drivers..lost count at the amount of times they wreck cars but it's never reported..if it were the GEN PUB would go nuts.
Track days are great...and legal too.
If you really think you can drive or ride fast try it on a track...there's nothing coming the other way either.

Deep_Ocean

It is OK unless you are on a public road which is used by sensible drivers :rotfl:

I've never done it myself, i'm a good driver don't you know

mcjordi

63Brummie wrote: »

Speeding is never ever ok...especially by the old bill as they are at best average drivers..lost count at the amount of times they wreck cars but it's never reported..if it were the GEN PUB would go nuts.
Track days are great...and legal too.
If you really think you can drive or ride fast try it on a track...there's nothing coming the other way either.

just to say im not old bill lol.. im a blood driver.. never come close to a crash yet.. unlike some of the police drivers out there i dont drive so close to other people's back ends that an accident happens

wba31

Yes i do, but never silly, max i will do is 10mph over the limit (according to my speedo). According to sat nav though my speedo can be 5-6 mph slower than the speed limit at 60/70mph, and 2-3 mph slower at 30mph.

I only ever do with discretion of the conditions around me. I know it's not right though...

Lum

Deep_Ocean wrote: »

unless you are on a public road which is used by sensible drivers :rotfl:

No danger of that ever happening around my way.

Personally I believe that there are plenty of places where, taking safety into consideration, not the law, it would be fine to speed and the limit shout be raised.

Problem is that limits only get lowered these days, and some of them are so ridiculously low that many drivers choose to ignore them, bringing the law into disrepute. This then has a knock-on effect of causing people to ignore the more necessary limits, to which the local council's response is to lower those as well, perpetuating the problem.

I believe that the limit should be set as the speed that could be safely achieved by a good driver, in a well maintained competent car, on a warm dry day. This is basically what the old 85% percentile rule did.

Alternatively, there should be more variable speed limits. Raise the limit above the current 70 on good days, and lower it in times of congestion and/or poor conditions.

Strider590

60mph B road, iIm behind a long line of slow (30mph) moving cars and nobody has the initiative to overtake the lead vehicle, I spot a chance to take 3 cars in the knowledge that I can take the rest in half a miles time.... I look, check the mirrors, signal and pull out.... I get to my gap only to find that everyone has bunched up to stop me pulling back in!! What now? speed? brake and hope your previous spot isn't full? ram the egotistical tw4t off the road? or just sit and wait for a head on collision?

In an ideal world, nobody would speed, nobody would ever need to overtake and nobody would take their ego's onto the roads. We don't live in an ideal world!