Hundreds of thousands of road users are set to be fined after the Metropolitan Police changed a speeding rule without directly announcing it.
The Met lowered its 'speeding tolerance' threshold by 1mph - the amount by which drivers can go over the speed limit without officers prosecuting them.
That means that 347,000 drivers have been told they face fines after breaking the rules between January and June this year - up from 97,000 in the six months before the rules changed, which is an increase of some 259%. The threshold was previously '10% + 3mph' - meaning if a driver hit 36mph in a 30mph zone, they were unlikely to be fined. Now the threshold has come down to '10% + 2mph', meaning a driver would only get away with 35mph on the same street.
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