Two speeding tickets in one day

BeenThroughItAll

JustinR1979 wrote: »

Ah under badging huh?
When I had a calibra with 280bhp I struggled to keep up with an E36 316, must have been a 318....

Well, it started life as a 1200. The engine dropped a core plug one day and I had a friend with a Vitesse lying around so I used some parts from that to get mine going, since mine was bodily in VGC and his Vitesse was a wreck.


It was even registered with DVLA as having had an engine change and even insured as such, but the copper didn't have the benefit of all the modern computers and ANPR, so clearly didn't do his due-diligence checks. Lucky for me.


In my defence, it was late, I was going downhill, and it was a beautiful clear summer's night and there was no-one else about except for the copper in his Sierra.

Joe_Horner

Car_54 wrote: »

Why on earth not?

If I kill you , and come back in an hour's time and kill your identical twin on the same spot, is that one murder or two?

But that would be 2 different murders. Speeding could well be a single offence, such as a village with cameras at both ends that you go straight through without slowing. Unlikely if you're caught at the same spot thouogh because you'd prbably have to have dropped below the limit to turn round unless it was a ring road :beer:

Joe_Horner

JustinR1979 wrote: »

Good luck with that, every night for over 10 years I've prayed for Kylie to be in my bed and it hasn't happened

Sorry, Justin, that's because I've been praying harder than you .....

FiremanDave

Joe_Horner wrote: »

But that would be 2 different murders. Speeding could well be a single offence, such as a village with cameras at both ends that you go straight through without slowing. Unlikely if you're caught at the same spot thouogh because you'd prbably have to have dropped below the limit to turn round unless it was a ring road :beer:

You don't need to explain that to our driving instructor.

FiremanDave

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

Well, it started life as a 1200. The engine dropped a core plug one day and I had a friend with a Vitesse lying around so I used some parts from that to get mine going, since mine was bodily in VGC and his Vitesse was a wreck.


It was even registered with DVLA as having had an engine change and even insured as such, but the copper didn't have the benefit of all the modern computers and ANPR, so clearly didn't do his due-diligence checks. Lucky for me.


In my defence, it was late, I was going downhill, and it was a beautiful clear summer's night and there was no-one else about except for the copper in his Sierra.

Why was it lucky for you, if it was all legal?

Joe_Horner

FiremanDave wrote: »

You don't need to explain that to our driving instructor.

But I was replying to Car54.............

BeenThroughItAll

FiremanDave wrote: »

Why was it lucky for you, if it was all legal?

Because I suspect if the copper had realised it was basically a Vitesse and not a Herald, he'd have been less surprised by the speed I was doing and wouldn't have given me the same 'bravery/disbelief' discount...

Gloomendoom

I had a similar Triumph experience a few years back after a high speed dash up the A74 late one night. I stopped for petrol and a couple of traffic cops pulled up and started chatting to me about the car, a TR7 DHC with a V8 in it. One said "Fast is it?" to which I replied "It will easily do 70". He then said "We know. You passed us "easily doing 70" two miles back."

Car_54

Joe_Horner wrote: »

But that would be 2 different murders. Speeding could well be a single offence, such as a village with cameras at both ends that you go straight through without slowing. Unlikely if you're caught at the same spot thouogh because you'd prbably have to have dropped below the limit to turn round unless it was a ring road :beer:

Indeed. With two different cameras, you could contend that it was a single continuing offence.

With the same camera, that's very unlikely.

FiremanDave

Car_54 wrote: »

Indeed. With two different cameras, you could contend that it was a single continuing offence.

With the same camera, that's very unlikely.

Possible though.

He might have got struck on the ring road. :rotfl: