Why do drivers on Motorways & Dual carriageways slow down to 69mph in the presence of a Police car? (or, even dafter, a Highways Agency car).
Surely everyone knows the de facto speed limit in this country is 85-90 mph?
Why don't drivers just maintain their speed and overtake?
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Pass one at 90 and come back and tellus what happens.
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I'd agree with the OP with regard to people trailing behind a police car - why do they do it? I always pass them at an indicated 80-ish and have never had any bother.
On a similar note, I often see people touching their brakes when they see a patrol car parked up on the side of the other carraigeway - even more bizzare.
S6 1SW
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Pass one at 90 and come back and tellus what happens.
Agreed!... I'll pass one at 80, no more! Just not worth the points.
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I am happy to go past them at 80 but no faster. A while ago I was trying to do this, and he increased speed to match mine and wouldn't let me past. He also flashed his blues. When I slowed back to 70 again he did the same, and then again he sped up as I did. Clearly didn't want to let me past, and luckily he left soon after anyway
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Cruising past them at about 75 - 80 seems fine so long as you're not trying to crawl up someones exhaust.
There must be an awful lot of paranoid people about that all slow down and bunch up as soon as they see a police or even a highways patrol car.
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I don't know, I've been behind a police car and he was doing an indicated 68-69mph on a national speed limit dual carriageway on the inside lane.
Everyone stayed behind him but I thought I'd go past so did an indicated 75ish on the outside lane.
He pulled me over and told me off, saying that when he's doing the speed limit he does not expect to be overtaken by an ordinary member of the public.
Needless to say I felt duly shamed and have not done it again.
Chris
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So what is he then when he takes off his insecurity hider, sorry uniform? Cheeky wotsit... I would have struggled with that.
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Yep, I didn't see anything wrong with it myself, specially seeing as my indicated 75ish to get past him was probably actually 70mph.
He just made me feel really silly when he pulled me over and was glad I didn't get anything more than a telling off.
Chris
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he was probably just a bit bored and looking for something to do - never had a problem cruising past them at 75ish.
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I agree that this paranoia is a little misplaced. I filtered past a marked police car (proper traffic division too, not a panda car) in slow(ish) traffic on the Handcross Hill stretch of the A23 on the bike a few weeks back. (This is a 70-limit dual carriageway, for those unfamiliar with it.) Occupants of said marked car were unconcerned.
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I've been moving along swiftly at 80-odd in the past and had a Police car overtake me! Likewise I was once travelling at 65mph along a 50mph stretch of the A66, saw a Police bike in the mirror - pulled into the slow lane expecting the inevitable, but he overtook too! I can't say I've ever overtaken a Police car on a major road mainly because I daren't do the speeds they often travel at!
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I really hate Handcross Hill! For some reason everyone infront of me feels the need to slam their brakes on and crawl through it at 50mph! I quite often go through at 70mph as long as I can see that there isn't a queue of traffic just round the corner (I usually do this road at night so can see the red glow round the corner)
A few years ago, I was coming down the hill in moderate traffic. I was driving the Discovery, fully loaded with stock for the restaurant, and going about 60mph in the outside passing a car. All of a sudden the woman in the car I was about to pass decided to pull in front of me and slam her brakes on!!! Luckily I had the room to just slip into the space she had just left in the inside and passed her but it confused the hell out of me and showed me how unstable the Disco was when fully loaded!! lol
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I overtook a police car yesterday at 155mph. It was on the A9 autobahn south of Leipzig.
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