Fed up with whinging speeders ?

scheming_gypsy

Hapless wrote: »

Lack of concentration, if caught there could be a case of "Driving without Due care and attention".. for not paying attention to speed and speed limits!

you're grasping at straws there.

Hapless_2

It has a lot to do with poor attention if you don't check your speed, misjudge braking distances and cannot control a car at speed.
So driving a car at 30 mph is the same as controlling a car at 40mph, 50mph,70mph,90mph,110mph? Do the brakes work the same at 70mph as they do at 40mph? Does the steering react the same when driving at 30 mph and at 50mph? I think not!
What's the braking distance for 90mph?

You could do all of the above and be within the speed limit. But that would be OK cos your not speeding??

I believe the topic is speed and that is what I am commenting on, bad driving under the speed limit is of course no excuse, but as we are talking about SPEED the comment is in the context of SPEED!

Hapless_2

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

you're grasping at straws there.

No just married to someone who was a professional driver and was informed of this while training by a serving traffic police officer.

scheming_gypsy

you tell me what the stopping distance is at 90mph.. the real one please not the one in the Highway code as it's been proved it's way out of date.

there's also a huge difference between what you said about driving without due care and attention and your above post. not looking at the speedo whilst NOT racing through busy streets and being marginally above the speen limit has no major effect on any of your above mentioned points. Especially nothing to do with stopping distances at 110mph.

daleyd

But I fail to see what your post says about speed.

It says a lot about bad driving, but nothing about speed.

scheming_gypsy

Hapless wrote: »

No just married to someone who was a professional driver and was informed of this while training by a serving traffic police officer.

but in the real world it doesn't happen. It's more theory than anything else.

ben500

It strikes me that with all these anecdotes about nice policemen who let off speeding drivers because they feel they are of superior quality we need more cameras and less police officers.

How come almost every speeder has had one of these conversations where whilst despite travelling in excess of the approved speed limit they end up being commended on their superb road skills? B0llocks!!

scheming_gypsy

i've never been commended on my superb road skills by a copper.


Although it does bring me to asking one question. Why is that when you're watching programs about the police and speed chases they'll spend hours chasing somebody through the streets. The person they're chasing go flying around the streets, weaving in and out of cars, round roundabouts the wrong way, hitting turns at over 100mph and only get stopped after to police use a stinger.. At the end of the chase they tell you the punishment and 'had to retake their driving test'. If somebody can drive like that at high speed and not cause an accident do they need to take their test again?

Hapless_2

and being marginally above the speen limit

What's marginally above the limit? 1mph, 5mph, 10mph, 30mph?

scheming_gypsy

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

i've been stopped a few times, had 6 points on my license a while back (came off my insurance 2 years ago) and was stopped the other week.
It hasn't really affected my driving as like i said i don't even realise i'm going over the speed limit sometimes and when i do it's usually within 5mph or so. It's not a decision i make (apart from on the motorway) that i'm going to deliberately break the speed limit. I get in the car, start the ignition and drive.

does this help?