Speeding and pressing your luck

No, if I see a line of cars just under the speed limit then I tuck myself in and try to look inconspicuous which is a very hard thing for me to do. They usually pull me over anyway to check my papers etc. Always have done. Did speed early last year before I left the Island and agreed with the officer that I was speeding and that he was fully justified in writing me a ticket but please woud he not tell my son as my son would be so ashamed of his mother being caught speeding. We were still in my son's constituency and he had just won the seat. So he looked at my name again and told me to proceed. So then I told him that I did not expect any preferential treatment (of course I did!) and thanked him for his courtesy but just to go ahead and write the ticket as I had brought up my children to respect the law. Finally, he established that he had 'discretionary powers' to let me go and so he did. We parted the best of friends

Well to be quite honest if I see an unmarked car it still would depend on how slow the unmark car is going. If it is going way below the speed limit and I know i can overtake the car without even have to break the speed limit, then I would overtake providing that it is safe to do so and I am doing it where there are broken white lines. At times you have some spiteful police that would drive so slow on a bridge and you know you shouldn't overtake on a bridge. They tempt you so badly. I can remember too times when I see a ticket is waiting to happen 1) I was waiting on a bus to go to school and there was a little congestion at an intersection. Well the little congestion was cause because the man on the main road was giving the driver on the minor road space to come on the minor road. There was a police behind the man on the main road and then another car behind the police. Then all of a sudden I see a car from way down road blowing his horn and attempting to overtake at a high speed. There was no way possible he could have seen a way to pass in that congestion. So overtaking the first car he had to slam on his brakes, so not to hit the car coming out the minor road. The police look at him and shake his head. He drove off thinking he had escaped. As soon as he was passed the intersection, the siren came on. 2) I was coming from class late in the night about midnight. That time of the night there are only a few cars on the road. So my dad was driving me home and we were in a truck. We came up to stop like which changed to red suddenly. There was a police in the lane next to us but behind a speeding car. The police look like they didn't mind at the time. But then the big truck that I was in managed to stop, and the car continued straight pass the stop light. Lights start flashing, police speed to reach the stop light, glimpse both ways and hesitated to pass the stop light. Finally they pass the stop light and chase began which ended a few distant down the road.

Actually on I-5 I see that from time to time even at 12:30 at night on our way home from work. Seen this just Wednesday evening, and was glad to see when they were actually pulled over, and thinking you deserved it for wanting to drive so fast in and out of traffic. Sometimes I wonder why these people tend to think they can weave in and out of traffic like this driving so fast and not get caught, or worse yet cause an accident.

Oh my gosh, when you drive through the streets or freeways out here, you're bound to see that happening (LA traffic, yep). Either there are no cops or plenty of cops around (and even unmarked cars) . . . so why take the chance? The kids are always with me in the car - so it's definitely safety first - I'm not going to be a speed demon over anything. Also, I don't want to pay for a speeding ticket (well, it'd be hubby paying for it as I don't work . . . I wouldn't want a chunk of money going towards a speeding ticket that could have been avoided). And, as I barely have time as it is, squeezing in the time to go to traffic school does not sound appealing. So I definitely do not press my luck no matter what!! It's scary, but sometimes I think there are accidents waiting to happen, more than the speeding tickets. I think this particularly with motorcyclists who weave in and out through traffic, going too fast for my taste. And sadly, a few times I have seen it end in a bad accident . . . not that I witnessed it, but upon seeing the fallen bike, I know that it was the motorcyclist that I had seen a few miles back. Ah, best never to press your luck when driving!

Thanks for this discussion I will never do that though there are no cop to check your speed, i drive with low spped of 60-80 kms per hour, in india most drive with this speed lol.

I think overtake is not good for anybody because may be injured both the driver who is trying overtake or other driver also. Now new generation people not understand the importance of life and they always try for going fast and do the overtake. I think everyone should control on their driving speed.

I remember an occasion where we were driving on the freeway a little too fast, and we were passed by a red truck. Right after that we spotted a CHP car and slowed down. The red truck got pulled over, and all the way home we said "the red truck is our friend". Of course if I think it's a cop car I'm not going to try and pass it...

That probably would have been me, because I don't pay a lot of attention to the other cars on the road... aside from where they are so I don't hit them. I don't normally go too fast though.

If it requires one mile per hour over the speed limit to overtake him....noway. That's an expensive chance. I have seen unmarked cars or police cars waiting to catch someone hidden in the weed before. I had someone whizz by me after spotting one before and they got pulled over too.

Well, most people in my country don't drive faster out of excitement (there are some who do), but because they are in a hurry, and most people do this, unfortunately (I see that sometimes my parents speed a little up, too, because everyone drives faster, and they unconsciously adapt to them, realizing just a bit later that whoops, they are driving 10 km/h over the speed limit). I wouldn't, because I wouldn't wanna get in trouble.

Have you ever seen such a scene? Yes, saw one time a speeding car in the hiway followed by cops with sirens. I got scared, I know that it was not about the ticket but something more. scary indeed like in the action movies. If you see an unmarked car on the road that looks like a cop car, do you press your luck and overtake it? No I always behave when there are cops.. I mean I can not overtake with them.. but I wear helmet. I just wear helmet because I ride a motorbike, going to work.

Its not good to try your luck against cops I think that corolla driver either has not recognised that unmarked car or may be just trying the luck but it proves costly for that driver for sure. And also the cops in the unmarked car must be itching that someone will take the challenge and we will give some surprise You did right thing by not taking chances against that car.

I don't often press my luck or my pedal too hard. The faster you drive the shorter your reaction time. I try to keep a safe speed.