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Your thoughts on driving at 159 mph
muddyweb:
--- Quote from: "datalas" ---b) "early hours" this doesn't really address the traffic density, likelyhood of pedestrians etc etc. Without knowing the layout of the road or whether anybody else was on it at the time means we should reserve judgement.
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According to the article, it was a deserted motorway near Telford... so there shouldn't be any pedestrians. The in-car video they used to prosecute him would have shown up any dangerous incidents IMHO and no mention was made of anything.
muky-kid.:
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--- Quote from: "beast5680" ---providing he was genuinly carrying out an evaluation of the vehicle and he was conducting it at a safer time of the day
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not being funny and i see your point but isn't there test centers for that, like the motor industry reasearch assosiation ( mira ). i do some work there and they have test tracks for this purpose.
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Excatly what i was thinking, shouldve done this sort of test on a proper Test Track not on Telfords Dual Carrigeways. Personnely i say ban the idiot, copper or no copper. It just gives the wrong impression to the public when this sort of thing is dismissed in court. He might be a very good high speed driver but the normal public are not and someone could have panicked whilst he was driveing at such speeds thus causeing an accident, luckily it did not happen. He should have been disaplined at least. :evil:
I feel strongly about this because an old school freind was killed by a traffic cop years ago through speeding, no action was taken against him :twisted:
Dave:
Your right Tim what a wast of money, bring back hanging that speed is unacceptable at anytime of the day and on any public road. Thats why we pay lots of money for helcopters for them so they can give chase safely.
datalas:
well, the article was somewhat lacking in details.
What the judge did make reference to in his summary was teh lack of a suitable evaluation, training, testing or indeed anything procedures for the constabulary in question. It's not beyond the bounds of possiblity that to take the vehicle to a test track would have been forced to be out of his own pocket (and potentially not cheap at that) ergo he did what I'm sure a lot of people have been tempted to do and find a deserted track of motorway at a time when everyone else is asleep.
I've done it myself, although, oddly I was in the series2 and ergo only hit 70ish according to the GPS :)
Andy.:
One question, with regards the law which no one is above regardless of job, what is the speed limit on a British motorway :?:
Makes no odds time or place, he was driving far to fast, no excuses.
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