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Speed traps are designed to make you fail

24 May 2025

9:00 AM

24 May 2025

9:00 AM

The builder boyfriend returned from a trip to London to inform me he was being done for speeding at 32mph, for crying out loud.

He was flashed by a camera crawling uphill in a 30 zone going through the almost middle-of-nowhere in the Ashdown Forest, on his way to visit his sister in Sussex for the weekend.

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