Leaving aside the safety issues for the moment, let's make this pure and simple.
It's the law and you broke it. Even if the road had been the 55 as you said you believed it was, you were still breaking the law by doing 61. Suck it up and pay the penalty.
You don't find people fighting shoplifting charges by saying they were only stealing small stuff. You don't get out of assault charges by saying you only beat someone up a little bit. So why should you get off for breakng the speed limit "just a little bit officer"
Even if you believed you were in a 55 limit your 61 is still more than 10% over. If your focus had slipped enough for you not to realise that, what other things might you have missed? Speed might not be the number 1 cause of accidents but it sure as hell contributes to them. Even one person killed who would have lived if someone wasn't speeding is one person too many.
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A thread most controversial, that’s what I want to start
Full of impassioned arguments, of posting from the heart
And for this stimulation all will be thankful to me
On come on everybody it won’t work if you agree
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