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Default Totally OT - Highway Question - Is 100 Metres Enough

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You are confusing speeding with excessive speed. Speeding is exceeding
the speed limit.......


or traveling too fast for the prevailing conditions.


Don't be silly. Speeding is shorthand for a specific statutory offence.
"traveling too fast for the prevailing conditions" is excessive speed
and would be prosecuted as careless or dangerous driving depending on
circumstances. My remark that you truncated is repeated below.

"You are confusing speeding with excessive speed. Speeding is exceeding
the speed limit. Excessive speed is driving too fast for the conditions
and your examples have absolutely nothing to do with speeding."

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Roger Chapman