Think I just got caught speeding

Car_54

DullGreyGuy said: 

Police guidelines suggest considering some leniency which is often 10%+2mph so they won't actually prosecute someone in a 30mph zone unless they are going above 35 mph but there is no legal requirement for this and they can prosecute you for doing 30.5mph if they want. 

The guidelines actually say that 35 is the starting point for action. Not "above 35". And they don't "suggest leniency".

Car_54

Cobbler_tone said:

I 'got done' once for doing 33MPH in a 30.

Many people have claimed on various forums to have been "done" for less than 35 in a 30 limit. No-one has ever provided evidence: most have admitted mis-remembering.

Can you break this trend, maybe by posting the NIP?

DullGreyGuy

Car_54 said:

DullGreyGuy said: 

Police guidelines suggest considering some leniency which is often 10%+2mph so they won't actually prosecute someone in a 30mph zone unless they are going above 35 mph but there is no legal requirement for this and they can prosecute you for doing 30.5mph if they want. 

The guidelines actually say that 35 is the starting point for action. Not "above 35". And they don't "suggest leniency".

That is leniency, the law states 30mph

Cobbler_tone

Car_54 said:

Cobbler_tone said:

I 'got done' once for doing 33MPH in a 30.

Many people have claimed on various forums to have been "done" for less than 35 in a 30 limit. No-one has ever provided evidence: most have admitted mis-remembering.

Can you break this trend, maybe by posting the NIP?

It was 5+ years ago but not sure why I would want to provide evidence? Strange request and it is far from unique, even within my own circle.

I would have probably questioned my claim of having one ticket in 40 years and just under a million miles of driving. 

TooManyPoints

... so they won't actually prosecute someone in a 30mph zone unless they are going above 35 mph

Enforcement normally begins at (Limit+10%+2mph). So 34 is (usually) OK, 35 is not.

TadleyBaggie

Cobbler_tone said:

Car_54 said:

Cobbler_tone said:

I 'got done' once for doing 33MPH in a 30.

Many people have claimed on various forums to have been "done" for less than 35 in a 30 limit. No-one has ever provided evidence: most have admitted mis-remembering.

Can you break this trend, maybe by posting the NIP?

It was 5+ years ago but not sure why I would want to provide evidence? Strange request and it is far from unique, even within my own circle.

I would have probably questioned my claim of having one ticket in 40 years and just under a million miles of driving. 

Because you would be the first. After being on Pepipoo and FTLA for close to 20 years, there have been precisely zero cases of anyone being prosecuted for below 35 in a 30.

Petriix

Cobbler_tone said:

I 'got done' once for doing 33MPH in a 30. It is the only time I have ever been caught speeding in 40 years of high mileage driving, which is some achievement in this day and age regardless of how careful a driver you are!
If you were approaching 40MPH when you clocked the van, it will have clocked you before you undoubtedly hit the anchors. I'm assuming you saw the van, checked the speedo before slowing down? If you slowed down before you checked the speedo even higher. Either way, if you have seen them they have already seen you.
Do the course, avoid the points and concentrate a little more going forwards. 

The ever changing limits in some areas/roads make it very difficult to establish what the actual limit is. Sat nav does often not help matters!

If that's genuinely true then you're the first person I've ever heard of getting prosecuted at 33. If you can show us the NIP, that would be a game-changer. So far no one has ever been able to show a NIP at under 35 in a 30.