Do you ever knowingly break the speed limit
 

Just a simple yes no poll if you want to justify your response feel free otherwise it is anon

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loads of times ,sometimes 80mph can be appropriate .

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Nice try Police.

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Me Babylon that is funny lol

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Living where I do, almost the entire road to anywhere is national limit, although the road itself rarely permits that sort of speed. However there are a couple of places where the limit drops to 40 as the road passes a couple of houses and I tend to let the car slow naturally as I approach those, rather than screaming up to them at full pelt and then slamming the brakes on. As often as not that means I pass the start of the limit doing 45 or a little more and don't reach 40 until I'm about a hundred yards in.

Mind you, from occasionally using a sat nav I know my speedo consistently over-reads by almost 10% so I'm probably not going over the limit after all.

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My partner drives at the appropriate speed limit or just below and touch wood so far we have never had a bang but what we do observe is that there are plenty of smart arse drivers on the road who think they are better then they really are and these are the ones you have to watch as they will cause many of the accidents as we have seen lately and also its important that drivers drive to the conditions as again many don't.

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Drivers should be aware of the speed they are travelling at. If they are not aware then they are not in proper control of the vehicle. By default therefore, unless you do not exceed the speed limit, you have done so knowingly, or worse you are driving carelessly.

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All the time, on the motorway or dual-carriageways. not in built up areas.

On the motorway I usually cruise at a steady 90mph, traffic permitting.

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Yep.

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Oh for those early days before 70mph became the national limit on motorways.
140mph down the M6 from Preston (Preston Bypass) 3.8 Jag.
Now a carefull grandfather driver doing 65mph down the inside lane watching the 'mad Herberts' trying to break the sound barrier in a clapped out car!

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Obviously not in residential areas. I stick to the limits but on motorways I do atleast 80.

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No.

The office next to us collates the stats of accidents where blood is spilled or worse. Some of the reports they get are more than enough to make you slow down. The old saying of better to be late in this life than early in the next springs to mind.

Cheers

Grim

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really? - for all we know you are working with an 'investigative journalist' who will be submitting user names 'admitting speeding' in this thread to the authorities???

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lol like a few speeders would merit all the hard work and difficulty is getting a warrant ;)

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so you are 'babylon', but only where you think it is worth it?

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I do not understand what you are asking

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he reckons your a grass but only if it doesn't involve too much work ;)

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at the end of the day anyone admitting it and posting it are grassing themselves up all I had to do was type the question :)

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Off to work now, i bet i break a speed limit or 2 on the way :) :wavey:

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I'd love to see the charges as a result of that. No locus, date of offence, time of offence, speed, vehicle registration and what the limit was in force at the time.

I'm not sure but I think the courts might just have a hard time making a case stick. :dunce:

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Dam the M56 was that slow this morning i never seemed to have gotten above 30mph :mad:

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M5 earlier was a bit quiet. 147mph all the way! :)

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M56 was clear on the way home, i requested permission to low fly which was granted and i proceeded home at a good rate of knots ;)

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It depends in some instances if I'm driving a car or riding a motorbike. One particular dual carriageway road where there are sometimes mobile cameras, I stick to the limit in a car. On the same road on my motorbike I break the limit in the outside lane to keep pace with the flow of traffic because it's safer to do so than being cut up by those joining on the slip road or cut up by those swerving from the outside to the nearside at the last minute for the slip-road.

I risk a fine and 3 points on the motorbike speeding, but I would rather take that risk than the much greater risk of being seriously injured or killed sticking to the limit in the nearside lane.

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thank you everyone who voted and thanks for your honesty in the comments

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Trust me. He isn't & won't :)