Speed gun just after a speed limit sign...

You are lucky it's a 30. All the residentials round me are 20mph. You shouldn't have been speeding so don't try and tell me why it should be more than 30mph. It's been set at that speed for a reason.

All drivers re-tested every 10 years or retested upon reching retirement age then ever 5-10 years to check confidence/and ability (e.g. reaction times, spatial awareness)

Pass plus incorproated into driving test - or young drivers banned from motorway/driving after a certain time at night/driving with passengers until pass plus is taken.
OR consider 1 year driving with P plates and not allowed to carry passengers

From my experience police do speed checks more commonly on motorways/dual carriages. For that reason I rarely speed on those roads, unless it's because I've commited myslef to overtaking someone who has decided to put their foot down as I do so. Usually I will just do maybe 10 mile over the limit on long stretches of road at unbusy times of the day. Though there are roads that I would never speed down, as there are some that I feel uncomfortable even doing the speed limit along, so no-one can exactly call me a dangerous driver.

To those saying you should never speed, always stick to it etc., the fact is that, assuming you always stick to the limit yourself, you are in a minority. The majority of drivers will speed, even if it's just down one or two roads that they use frequently and are comfortable with doing so (such as the road in my original post).

But they are far more lenient on the motorways. If you are driving safely at 80, you won't be pulled. If you are driving stupidly at 80, you will be.

Not applicable really to the debate. You were speeding.

All the residentials round me are 20mph.

don't try and tell me why it should be more than 30mph.

Jeeze, just drive at the speed limit, don't pick a time to drive at it, do it all the time.

It's safer to speed on these roads

Just so you are aware, speed cameras operate at speed limit + 3mph.

You will get fined caught doing 10mph over the limit.

how long have you been driving?

Why do you have to speed?!

Source please?

Well don't go making sweeping statements involving minority and majority.

it's a pertinent topic that needs to be addressed to highlight the issue to young drivers (and old!) who think that speeding is 'cool', a bit like guns or knives. Breaking the law is not cool.

I'm not sure what's worse - old people who drive EVERYWHERE at 40mph or young drivers who feel the need to drive everywhere at warp factor with the large exhaust rattling aware

On my way home, I drive through a small village (through one main road with a few houses one side of the road and fields the other, so not busy at all), the speed limit is 30mph, however it is very rare for people to stick to that except on the school run at 9am. Usually I'll be doing about 35-40mph. At the end of the village there is a hill, and at the top of the hill the limit changes to national. The past 2 days as I have driven home (working nights so driving home around 7am) there has been a police car parked abit further past the speed limit sign and two
policeman standing there with a speed gun. Obviously at that point I wouldn't have been speeding, doing about 40-50, as I have passed the national speed limit sign, but can they still catch *
you and say something like "To have been doing that speed you must have been speeding before that point", or do they have to have the evidence from before that point? I'm a bit worried as if they have caught me both those times, that's 6 points and my licence gone as I have only been driving just over a year!
Thanks

I got flashed by a speed camera doing 100 down a dual carriageway... Didn't get anything through for that, and it was 4 months ago.. I was so relieved!