A couple of years ago a family of three in a Punto were on their way to Manchester Airport on the M62 Westbound and were in lane 1 as they prepared to join the M60. A much faster moving Audi Q7 tried to do the same by moving from an outer lane into lane 1 and hit the back of the Punto with the result that the rear and front seat passengers were both killed.How is that bull****? I never said speed is cool. Just motorway driving is full and its far better driving in the 80s than the 70s. Only problem with people speeding on motorways is the dickheads that don't know how to drive and stay in the middle lane or outside lane. They're overtaking lanes and that's it. Not a slow lane, slightly faster lane and slightly faster again lane. That's the only danger on motorways. Speed doesn't kill, bad driving does.
Up to a point what you say has some merit and the late Leonard (L.J.K.) Setright, one of my journalistic heroes, always maintained that there should only be one driving offence and that should be Dangerous Driving. On that basis driving an Aston DB9 at 130 on a deserted M62 at 4am on a Sunday morning may not be an offence whereas driving at 30 past a school when the street is full of 9 year old pedestrians and cyclists could be.
The only problem is that you will never know whether nicking someone for speeding will prevent a collision or whether not stopping a speeding driver will result in one happening. Because of that the powers that be really have no option other than to do drivers for speeding, dodgy tyres, drink driving etc.
Maybe it's a good thing that many on here will criticise others who speed. Peer pressure works one way or the other.