Caught speeding 106mph on motorway

jimexbox

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers! wrote: »

Speed does not kill. You're stupid. Why should disablement affect the ability to drive at a particular speed?

Speed is one factor in how serious a crash may or may not be. The simple indisputable fact is, the faster you are moving, the greater the stopping distance required. So if you were travelling at 70mph, you may be able to avoid an accident than if you were travelling at 90mph.

Also in a built up area, a pedestrian has far greater chance of survival if the car was travelling at 30mph rather than 40mph. so you are wrong, speed kills.

Although you should always drive to the conditions, not just the law. How many idiots drive too fast within the speed limit when its wet or foggy?

Lemonade_Pockets

Everyone who has ever dared ventured over 100mph has died a horrible and gruesome death. The worst thing is innocent people are killed too, at least one whole family everytime. I remember seeing someone driving in excess of 100 die instantly because wind changed direction.

Obviously that is the rule, there have been a small number of freak exceptions where against all the odds maniacs have cheated death and made it to the end of their journey without causing mass homicide! But these people in my view should be shot on sight anyway - they are danger to themselves and society so should be punished without mercy!

minnie123

I think he will most likely get a ban - being disabled has nothing to do with it a lot of people need cars to get to work and if they lose their licence they have to find another way - bus/train/liftshare/taxi or new job that is why being banned is a punishment.

I belive doing 106mph in the right conditions is not dangerous but if you do that you have to be aware of the risk you may get caught and punished. I have 6 points on my licence for speeding - I didn't cry about it because yeah I did it and I took the risk of getting caught.

harveybobbles

Stephb1986 wrote: »

And coming from someone who is disabled I would never drive at that sort of speed even if I wanted to! Hopefully if your the sort of idiot to drive at these speeds that you get banned too or maybe have a fatal crash you might learn the lesson. Does it make you get hard by being a nasty pr!ck :rolleyes:

I have had a bad car crash that has caused me to be disabled I wasn't even speeding I could of died if it wasn't for my seatbelt. Ever had a bonnet come through your windscreen?? Probably not or you wouldn't be sat behind your keyboard talking !!!!!!. Maybe go and have one and you will understand!:mad:

your Eos won't do that sort of speed anyway Steph :P

Stephb1986_2

harveybobbles wrote: »

your Eos won't do that sort of speed anyway Steph :P

Lol, it could if it wanted to but I'm not going to risk my life to try either its got 140bhp, and the top speed so I've been told is 128mph

http://www.channel4.com/4car/road-tests/full-specification.jsp?version_id=9101



Steph xx

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

jimexbox wrote: »

So if you were travelling at 70mph, you may be able to avoid an accident than if you were travelling at 90mph.

If I was travelling at 90mph I would already have passed the accident I may have encountered at 70mph - quite a while ago.

goldspanners

Stephb1986 wrote: »

I hope that one day you do get caught by the police for driving like an utter idiot and I pray to god that no one gets hurt by your reckless driving. You are obviously thick because it doesn't seem like you drive to the law are you above it or something? :rolleyes:

TBH I don't know why I'm replying to your drivell. I have better things to do

i think someones been brainwashed watching too much of these ads.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7fhzDUOsxI

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

Oh dear, it's back for more.

Pass plus eh - and you only passed your test 5 years previously. I passed my test in 1989 and have been driving ever since, and guess what, I've never had a serious accident, even doing more than 20,000 miles a year.

What standard did you pass at with the ROSPA test, and do you re-test as you should to maintain that standard?

By the way, if you'd been driving faster the 'daft cow' would have done the u-turn several miles behind you. And if you didn't see her as she had no lights on, you were clearly driving beyond your abilities as you should have been able to stop within the distance of road illuminated by your headlamps - so you were not observing the conditions, and driving carelessly. What if that 'daft cow' had been a child who ran into the road, as you're so fond of mentioning? Whoops.

I don't generally drive according to the law. I drive according to what is safe. That means that I don't run red lights, I don't ignore pedestrian crossings, and I have a sound understanding of roads signage. What I don't do, what you appear to do, is look at a number on a stick and decide that that number is the speed at which it is safe to drive.

There is absolutely nothing whatsoever inherently unsafe about doing 106mph on a clear empty stretch of motorway. Nothing.

sarahg1969

And not enough of these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T_urkKzxXM

goldspanners

sarahg1969 wrote: »

And not enough of these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T_urkKzxXM

indeed! :rotfl: