sounding much like they were saying :
ITYF I meant "that's lunacy not 'speeding'".
OK - one of mine was for 65 in a 50 on a two lane DC stretch of A1, going south through Bedfordshire.
I'm second in a queue of cars in L2 doing about 45 past a queue of stuff in L1 doing about 44. I've got a Vectra behind me climbing all over my arse - trying to get into the back seat. He can't get past me, so he's trying to get through-over me.
The car in front finally clears the queue in L1, and moves left. The NSL sign is visible. My mirror is FULL of Vectra windscreen - I can barely even see his bonnet, never mind his lights. The guy's approaching apoplexy.
I drop the XM from D to 2, and give it some squeeze to get some space behind me before the **** rams me, get past the other car, and am already tucking left and easing back as we pbutt an unmarked white van sat parked on the pavement, about 100yds before the NSL, with one back door open. I notice, as I approach it, there's a bloke hiding in the shadows behind some equipment, and curse.
SP30, 3pts, £60.
Was I being dangerous?
The other two SP30s in my life were for 36 in a 30, very wide A-road, 11.30 on a monday night, nothing else in sight, camera hidden behind a tree; and 55 in a 30, back country lane. It'd been NSL through town, but there was a 30 sign overgrown and invisible in a hedge. RLPlod in an unmarked Grandad, who was very apologetic about it and explained that he didn't feel I was driving dangerously, but they'd been told to sit there and be very very strict.
Other than that, I've collected two parking tickets - one because I misread a P&D sign on the other side of the road to apply to mine (which was Resident Permits only) and one while parked in a pull-in outside an offy for five minutes on a Saturday evening - I'd popped round the corner to the cash machine.
