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I always assume speed limits are for public safety. But this road has no junctions (it was surrounded by fields) or bends. It runs alongside a dyke which I suppose is why the limit is in place.
I think doing 30 in a 20phm limit outside a school is a bit more heinous than driving next to a dyke and some fields.
I know you're about to chastise me (being a new driver and hence the tests/lessons are more fresh in your mind), but I'm well aware that I was caught, and I admit to wrongdoing. I'm just miffed because I wasn't affecting anyone or anything.
Then again, it's nowhere near as baffling as the fact that - while I was learning - there were people doing all sorts of stupid shit around me and trying to intimidate me into <going over the speed limit | getting out of their way | whatever else> so they could get home 30 seconds quicker, while I was in a car with massive fucking orange flashes all over it showing it was being driven by a learner. Like...what, exactly, did they think was the most likely outcome here, given that they had no idea how long I'd been driving?
Been on one speed awareness course, but apart from that I've been a good boy.
But yeah, there are plenty of things that baffle. The idiots that speed, the idiots too scared to go over 40mph in perfect conditions. You're well on your way to being a standard driver - hating everyone else using the road
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For the first time as far back as I can remember, I currently have ZERO points!!!!
The last three expired just last week.
A clean licence! So this is what it feels like ?!
My licence has been peppered with speeding offences since I passed my test back in 1902. I've been on nine points twice, spent most of the time on six or, less frequently, just three. Been banned once for three weeks too.
I'M CLEAN AT LAST !!
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As I'm gaining speed to perform the undertake the guy in front of me decides he wants to park up so I have to stop suddenly and flick my right indicator on to let everyone know I'm going to move in to the right hand lane, the guy who was dawdling in front of me just dawdles past and then a procession of cars do the same and it takes me a while to overtake the parked car. By this time I'm livid and so I overtake the park car and zoom off in to the left lane, determined to overtake the dawdler.
Now I've been passed the speed camera at the bottom of the Bath Road numerous times at around 45 and thought it was inactive. So I zoom passed at 47 and *bang* bright light fills the entire car and I've been caught. I was so furious with myself that I think I really should have pulled over and taken a breath because I loathe people driving like cocks and I just literally displayed the complete textbook version of driving like a cock.
So I went on the course and it was pretty educational actually! Especially when they showed you the stopping distances (like how you'll actually mow someone down at 40 compared to you'd barely clip them at 30) and how to deal with people who are up your arse etc.
Well, it's been 8 days and no NIP has come through the post. I think it's 14 days before it's invalid. Could I be lucky?! I'm crossing everything in the hope that I am.
I wouldn't be counting any chickens just yet, but good luck anyway
Oh, and in answer to the question, none now, but I've had plenty in the past, although never enough at any one time to lose my license! In the distant past I used to be a taxi-driver in Lytham St Annes, and it was easy to get caught speeding along the main road to Blackpool past the Pontins Holiday Camp. Happy days...
It was an overtake on a dual carriageway.
A truck was doing the slowest overtake known to man and once he got around I did a swift manoeuvre around both cars right into the view of a front facing camera .
Clearly my own fault but if I had of taken the bike instead like I normally do of the car then I'd have been fine.
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