I was overtaking at about 75mph (well within the 10% of the speed limit infringement that a traffic cop would give you) on the motorway, some lady thought she should be on the same part of road as me, so she started to move across without looking, pushing me onto the gravel in the central reservation.
I had 3 choices...
Brake... very, very heavily with my 2 wheels in the gravel. I've never tried braking a car from 70+mph with the two left wheels on tarmac, and two on gravel.
Maintain my position and wait for her to hit me because braking would be dangerous, and accelerating would involved me really braking the speed limit.
Put my foot down and clear the dozy cow, thus avoiding the accident.
I chose the 3rd one, I got 'detected' by a Mobile Camera unit doing 83mph. which I did for about 2 seconds, whilst getting out of her way.
The picture the mobile unit would have had, would've been me doing 83mph with some car behind me, not me being pushed into the central reservation by someone that doesn't know how to drive because I wasn't doing 83mph at that moment.
And that's my biggest issue with speed cameras. They do nothing to improve the standards of driving on the roads. A traffic cop would be able to distinguish the difference between myself just speeding, and of having to speed to avoid an accident.
A traffic camera cannot.
Next time I'll let them hit me. And I'll feign injury. And I'll be on one of those claims direct adverts.