Arrived home to find a speeding ticket in the post
I wouldn’t mind but it’s a stretch of road I generally try to keep within the limit on, and had noted I was a bit above, corrected my speed, and then clocked the hi-vis.
Total distance of which my speed was out of order - perhaps 300 yds max, probably not even that.
But there was a bloody copper there on Monday (first time that I have ever seen them there as well).
I know I ought not but I treat speeding tickets (not that I get many, maybe 1 every couple of years) as consumables. A simple cost of motoring like petrol, oil and tyres etc. I suspect I’m not alone in that either. In a sense, one could say that the punishment fails in that some feel fines are considered a ‘money making exercise’. They feel a sense of injustice rather than guilt. Moot point perhaps if it stops people speeding.
Haven’t you got a fast car Billy - imagine how gutted Stuart felt when he got a speeding ticket recently whilst using the Renault Zoe courtesy car. I didn’t think electric cars went that fast
Easily done, several factors - speed limits on départemental roads not consistent, also if you’re more familiar with driving in the UK at 60mph, driving at that speed in France on a D or an N route is likely to land you a ticket.
Electric cars can have a powerful acceleration that you don’t notice as engine noise doesn’t change. I don’t speed (and never had a speeding ticket) but when first got it had to be v careful as would find myself doing 110 in a 90 zone.
Mind you I am trying to buy a more adequate version (without much luck - I think the dealer is spinning me a yarn).
As my family have pointed out (a little too gleefully if you ask me) had I not been speeding I would not have got nicked.
There’s a uphill stretch, a little too much gas applied for too long easily turns 30mph into something over the limit. The annoyance is that I had realised and moved to slow down based just on monitoring my speed - only then did I see the hi-vis about 150m away so it feels unjust.
Oh well there are worse things that happen. I’d do the speed awareness course but I don’t want to waste a day of annual leave on it nor listen to some smug tw*t lecturing me.
They can quite quickly put on a burst of acceleration and almost anything on the road can exceed the limit in the right circumstances.
I use speed control always, through 50, 70 and 80, and sometimes where it’s 90. My Tom-Tom seems to know what the speed limits are and dings me whenever I’m over the limit on those few occasions I’m not on cruise control. I have the gps on all the time because of its warnings.