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In the Mail today (not a Murdoch paper!) is a report that, on average, drivers will break the speed limit about 18,000 times during their driving career. It's a wonder that there is anyone still alive in the U.K. given that so many indulge in this dangerous practice.

Let's see. Say a driver drives every day between the ages of 20 and 70. This is just over 18,000 days. Breaking the limit once a day? I should think this is a bit of an underestimate.

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When talking about x amount of times, (18,000 in this case), I find it hard to understand the logic they use.

For instance, if I am speeding the entire length of a 10 mile journey and get done just the once, as I unluckily pass a scamera, that is one case of speeding.

If on the same journey I stay within the limit but just so happen to go over it past the same scamera it’s still once incidence of speeding even though it’s a far shorter 'blip'. What if I went over the limit a dozen separate times on my route? Is that 12 incidences of speeding?

It doesn’t distinguish between a blip, or many blips, and constant speeding so I’m not sure if it’s 18,000 blips or what. It’s all very woolly...

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If it's breaking the speed limit per journey, it's maybe credible. But each individual instance of going above the limit and dropping back, I'm sure it's a huge underestimate.

Let's say I have a driving career of 50 years (and that will only take me to 67). I drive on 300 days a year, making two specific journeys per driving day, and exceed the speed limit on 90% of occasions. That's 27,000.

Now that my local road has been made a 20 limit, I exceed the speed limit on every single journey I make. Before that, there were some journeys I made where I could credibly claim I didn't.

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Funnily enough, I was thinking about this the other day. My 30 mile journey to work goes:

30-40-NSL-30-NSL-40-50-NSL-40-30-NSL-40-NSL-30-NSL-40-NSL-40-NSL-40-NSL-30-NSL-30-NSL

I concluded that exceeding each limit would count as one offence.

So if they put a scamera at each limit you could conceivably get 75 points in a day then JtB (Assuming you wouldn't do the same on the way back )

I was thinking the same as you Peter; that it's likely to be way in excess of 18,000, especially for

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