The road is a 30mph limit

My personal favourite is

"Drives at 40 in a 60"

"Continues to drive at 40 in a 30"

To me, 40 in a 30 is more dangerous as there's a bigger chance of pedestrians. And I don't get the rationale of "I'm scared to go fast when the road permits, but I'm in a massive hurry to get through this village."

If they go from 40 -> 20, I'm frustrated but at least I can understand you're just slow. But to go from slow to speeder makes no sense.

I just did a speed awareness course and there was this old guy on there and he was so incredibly clueless about everything. He said if he didn’t see a speed sign he’d go 30 to be on the safe side. He said he thought 30mph was the speed limit of slip roads! 🤦‍♀️

These are the same people who stand on the brakes when approaching an average speed camera, even though they've been averaging 28mph since the early 1990s.....

Also... People who don't feel the need to indicate when changing lanes on a busy motorway... why?

Either their speedo is broken or under-reading.

I also agree with the other person - around here in Yorkshire I see boomers in old shape silver Vauxhall Mokkas (the horrendous ones) doing the 35 in a 60 but when they hit the 30mph limit of a village they accelerate until they’re doing 50mph. How does that work?

Also, most boomers (and now their kids) in Yorkshire seem to think Drunk Driving is a skill, rather than something that’s illegal. They drive out to a pub in the Dales, have a skinful and then drive home to Harrogate.

My theory is they think slowing down even more for a speed camera will somehow take points off their licence or give them some kind of good karma points

Were they in a Honda Jazz, by chance?

I had someone driving 25 in a 60 for 4 miles until I could overtake it’s madness you always hear it a limit and not a target but if you don’t hit the limit on your test there’s a good chance you will fail your test for impeding traffic

Occassionally come across these drivers, predominantly the retired type. 40 in a 60, 40 in a 50, 40 in a 40 and 40 in a 30.

Overtake when possible in a 50 or 60 limit and maintain as far as posible before reaching a 30 limit village where i hope to avoid them catching me up again as they are still doing 40!

The condition is known as Hackney Dysphoria , the fear of being penalised by a defective Met Police speed camera and the ramifications of unintentionally breaking the limit 🤔

It gives me more time to react as I'm probably pouring myself a beer

I’m convinced most of these idiots are the same people that recite the recycled “it’s a limit, not a target” which they just use to hide the fact that they’re just simply incompetent drivers with 0 spatial awareness and 0 accountability.

These would also be the same idiots that would merge onto the motorway doing 35-40 because “the left lane is the lorry lane and they’re capped at 50 anyway so I’m not that far off”.

Just gonna hop on this to add that if it's an ambulance doing this, it might be because nan in the back has a hip fracture, so please chill

People who drive at 60 in the outside lane. When lanes 1 and 2 are completely empty. And they have a queue forming behind because nobody wants to blatantly undertake them

Oh, I don’t know, plenty of reasons.

Just chilling, nervous, misunderstood the speed limit, for LOLs, trying to roll a joint…

Take your pick.

Lmao road been clear for 5 miles then why havent you overtaken yet, hed be getting smoked in the first 5 seconds the road is clear

This is the worst, it happened to me monday - driving back to the digs. Stuck behind somebody doing 33 in a 50, then proceeded to do 33 in a 40 then decided they were going to do 40 in a 30! Once it went back to 50 they went back to 33mph. Eventually I had the opportunity to overtake and did so! (Not so fast in the LWB 1.6l Renault trafic)

They believe the limit is 20 and haven't seen the signs?

are they wearing a flat cap or sporting a blue rinse?

There is of course the possibility that they are doing it to deliberately piss off other drivers i once went to overtake said cock womble and they accelerate, sadly for them a base model ecoboom Kuga doesn't really have a lot of grunt and I passed safely.

This was a 60mph straight road and they were doing just over 40

This sounds like some idiot doing kph not mph an then they will be doing 30 something so they think they will be going faster than speed limit an everyone behind them is wanting to speed

Yesterday on my way to work i got stuck behind someone who decided to do 35 in a 60... middle of the day, no one in front of her, clear view... makes my blood boil. If youre scared to drive the speed limit then go a different fucking way

You know what? It's my pet hate when I'm following someone who is doing less than the speed limit. Don't get me wrong, I know there's times you can't, such as in inclement weather or if the road has a high speed limit has lots of twists and turns or is a narrow lane. But these people who are driving in nice weather, on a straight piece of road, with nothing preventing them from going faster apart from the extra minisqual amount of energy you'd have to use to speed up to the speed limit. It really gets on my nerves. And the worst thing is, when they are doing the speed limit and they then drop 5mph and practically poo themselves every time they see a speed camera.

Unless it clearly sign posted, they probably don’t know the area and are just playing it ‘safe’.

That or they’re just so unaware of their speed and surroundings.

My favourite is, on the motorway, average speed camera zone for a few miles, cars going over the speed limit and then slow down when they approach the camera and then speed up again, lmfao.

We had a main road upgraded from a 30 to a 40. Perfectly safe to do 40 down that road. You would have thought they made killing puppies and small children mandatory, the way people carried on. One guy threatened to spend his days driving up and down that road at 20mph to “force” other drivers to drive at what HE thought the limit should be. No houses on either side of this road, no pedestrians, should never have been a 30, but he was furious that drivers could now go a whole 10mph faster.

Possibly because their car speedometers is showing 30mph, they aren’t calibrated correctly and quite often show a higher speed than the car is doing. I use my phone to accurately tell my speed and often it’s at least +- 10% less than the car says.

Was behind one at the weekend, they joined the motorway at 40, as I overtook I saw they had one hand on the wheel, other hand texting!

Drove from Aberfoyle over the Dukes pass to Milngavie last Sunday. Its 50mph. Guy in a Porsche Cayenne did 24 mph dropping to about 15mph on thr bends for 10 miles. Unbelievable. Buy a Nissan Leaf you walloper.

Its the people near me that drive at 40 in a 50, then when it changes to a 30 they stay at 40, oblivious to the change. Normally old people

There is a major road near me that is a 40, it has multiple signs both big and small stating it’s 40mph. People drive down it at 29, then slow down to about 25 for the speed cameras. It causes so much traffic in the mornings and infuriates me!

Try living in wales where we have the 20mph limit. For some reason I can’t explain, since the law was brought in, there are a host of people who now feel the need to drive at 13mph in the new 20mph zones. It’s infuriating.

Or people who fly past dangerously close because I’m going the speed limit and that’s not fast enough for you. Why?

Because I have a lingering concern that the road might have a 20mph limit, or I've missed a change in the limit just before the camera, and have heard all the stories of people getting pinged for going 23mph in a 20 zone, and so add about 5 seconds to my journey (and yours if you are behind me) out of an abundance of caution.

I believe the reason for people doing 40 in a 60 is because they do not know the national speed limit for that type of road. I'd love to do away with the national speed limit sign and just put up the speed limit number. No confusion then.

can you please clarify why you are on reddit asking about people who are obeying the speed limit?

There is a road I drive on some months when I go to see family. Between Wootton Bassett and Wroughton. B4005.

One segment is 50mph but could easily be put up to 60mph, the second segment is rightly a 30 zone as it goes through a village and passed some schools.

The amount of people that do 40 the whole way along, too slow for faster segment then speeding through a village. Idiots.

Probably people who drive 5 under the speed limit, but don’t know their speedometer inflates their speed

I usually just go around them if the road markings say so and it's safe to do, perfectly legal.

my ex was a chronic slow driver, would go 25 in a 30 or 40 in a 60. he would then slow to 20 when a speed camera comes.

to be fair to him, he was very anal as i think he had a smidge of autism and ocd, he’d obsess after a lot of drives if he went too fast and look back on his camera to see it.

i would take the piss but it used to annoy the hell out of me.

That’s one of the most annoying things going; to be stuck behind an arse🕳️ like that!

And if you try to overtake, they speed up, then slow back down.

What is this new trend of people doing this? I swear ten years ago this was much less frequent. Feels like every journey there’s one of these!

I had to do a driver awareness course recently and it was terrifying how little people know about speed limits or how to read the road and road furniture to have an educated guess...

Also told the person taking the course I wouldn't change my driving habits, I stick to posted speed limits but national speed limit is a recommendation.

I was caught doing 84 on an empty motorway (in lane 1) at 8pm on a summer evening. That was a money grab.

My route home from work sees me travel on a 50 and a 30 road the amount of people I see do 40 in the 50 then about 50 in the 30 is genuinely incredible

Think some people genuinely mistake 30 roads for 20. That or they’re in a new area for the first time and don’t want to miss their turn.

Either way, bloody annoying.

M60/M56/Princess Parkway, Manchester after 5 PM. Busy but clear, yet constantly dodging people doing 50ish on a 70.

Was it a Honda Jazz?

I know it’s not quite the same thing but I was once going down a 70mph dual carriageway and there was a car doing 50mph in the left lane and I was stuck behind a car doing 51mph next to him and by the time he managed to overtake, the road had dropped down to a 40.

People p*ss me off. If you’re adamant on overtaking, at least speed up to do it

Am I missing something? That's clearly someone who thought the limit was 20.

Basically they can't drive. This is why there should be regular assessments of some sort for all drivers.

Are you tailgating me? Then this would be the reason I’m doing that.

Otherwise, I usually chalk it up to either drivers who don’t know the area and might be specifically looking for somewhere or just downright bad driving.