Twenty’s plenty

Steve Cropley talks about problems with obeying 20mph speed limits in London (My Week In Cars, 23 March).

I mostly drive in and around Bristol. One evening last September, I was on a residential road with a 20mph limit when I saw a mobile camera van. I wasn’t driving fast but thought I would be all right. I was wrong: I got a ticket for doing 26mph. Due to an error printed on the ticket, it was cancelled, which was fortunate.

I had also received a speeding ticket in Derby in 2019, detected by a handheld radar gun, for which I attended a speed awareness course.

As a result of these incidents, I now observe speed limits more diligently and where necessary use my car’s speed limiter function.

Some people behind me do get frustrated, but most in Bristol are actually respectful, even if they may not enjoy it. In fact, I’m often behind other cars being driven similarly.

It only needs a few cases of excess speed in places with camera vans or radar guns to acquire a lot of penalty points, which is annoying at the least. Mark Gilbert

Portishead, Somerset