Ah, STW. Land of the professionally offended, home of the pious. You never disappoint.

To answer OP, I’ve got 3 pts for exactly the same speed. The police even complemented me on my driving, but over the limit is over the limit. If those points *have* affected my premium then I haven’t noticed. I have business mileage on my policy.

Take the points…I was a culprit at the beginning of the year and it’s a complete bobbins money making scheme

What did slow me down was mpg and fuel saving

I learned a few things doing this but mainly at the speeds I drive now.

Nigh on impossible to get nicked speeding
Driving slowly with a self centred cause in mind has way more effect than any get me out of it scheme ever would

Driving to save fuel means the speeds involved give you way more time and space to consider others

I’m guessing you’ve never been on a motorway then.. 🙄

You’ve already done a speed awareness course and it’s done nothing/you’ve learned nothing, so take the points big boy.

3 points then unluckily get another 3, now 6 and cacking yourself you’ ll get another 3. no thanks, take the course every time. and it is condescending sh!te.
though at 83 mph you might not get offered the choice

83mph? what have you got, a Ferrari?

(I was told on here my car couldn’t be “slow” cos I was doing 43)

the points or course details go on your licence, and will weigh any quote for your own car insurance, failure to declare the course or points will invalidate your insurance if you have a claim.

And today’s award for made up internet facts goes to:

and

courses are not recorded on your license (although they are stored on a database somewhere), and you only need to declare them if asked, AFAIK only the Admiral Group ask about courses; and the points aren’t sitting waiting to be added if you reoffend.

Daft question, take the points.

Also I’ve done a couple of courses over the years and both were on a weekend.

Sounds like you may not be teachable on this one. Take the points and save the instructors time…

My course a few years back had some on the road advanced driving stuff and was interesting and a good refresher. Why do people think they never need or would benefit from updating or teaching about this sort of thing?

I expect I would. However I don’t think most of them include that – certainly when I’ve seen them discussed on here the suggestion seemed to be that it was very basic stuff. Why is it arrogant or an indication of being unteachable to think that you wouldn’t learn anything from being taught basic stuff in the HC when you already have a very decent knowledge of the contents of the HC?

Who did?

The question is whether the course covered anything about the safety of driving above the speed limit on DCs, or whether the OP does follow all the guidance given on such courses. “arrogant” is just an interpretation of some people’s general attitudes when I’ve made similar comments on previous threads about not expecting to get anything out of such a course. FWIW like the OP I got done for speeding on a DC and always try to stick to lower speed limits (and follow other good driving practice).

“83” dual carriageway – exactly where and what caught you ?

Not because of how it impacts your insurance – but those questions above relate to your motivation and attitude to this incident where you got caught.

Dual carriageways have laybys and junctions that are completely unlike motorways .
Sure if it was some automated speed related fine then do whatever suits you ,
otherwise please have a little think about how much of a hurry you are in.

this needs repeating I think. I used to fly down some dual carriageway I thought I knew well on a bike in the days you could get away with it

turns out that after looking at those roads at a more reasonable speed they have a lot more hazzards than I was aware of and I have come to the conclusion that speed limits are generally well thought out by people who might know a thing or two about accident hotspots etc.

getting points sucks… but driver training can save lives 🙂

ps reminder on approx. stopping distances

60 mph 130 ft
80 mph 230 ft

agree on the crappy enforcement, so many **** on the road, seems odd.

the scenario you describe may have been a road with no footpath and some pedestrian traffic perhaps?

Most of the people on my course were pensioners…