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Yeah, rule of thumb in Australia used to be 10% over was okay.
Now there are cameras everywhere which will ping you for doing 3 over, even in 70 zones.
(5km/over in a 110km/h zone since we're metric).
I actually just picked up a fine for the same thing: 75km/h in a 70km/h zone.
(that'd be 47 in a 43 zone if I were in the states)
My first traffic offence in a decade. In the state I grew up in you can write a letter to get it turned into an official warning if you have a clean driving record, but not in this state. Law says you got caught, speeding risks lives, pay the fine or go to court.
Anyway, it sucks... but y'know - don't speed.
(Or the way I like to look at it: you took a calculated legal risk. Don't get pissy when that risk turns into a reality.)
As to why you were pulled out of a row of traffic - well, they gotta pick someone, and why wouldn't it be the big BMW sedan?
Just because everybody else is breaking the law doesn't give you the right to.
Sorry.
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