Dangerous driving and excess speed

Xorph

Alleged 130 in 70(Motorway) and 105 in 30. 2x excess speed and dangerous.

Drivers husband having medical fit and driver going home to get injectable medicine to reverse. Home under five mins from mway exit and closer than any hospital or ambulance getting to us.

Help!

BeenThroughItAll

Xorph wrote: »

Alleged 130 in 70(Motorway) and 105 in 30. 2x excess speed and dangerous.

Drivers husband having medical fit and driver going home to get injectable medicine to reverse. Home under five mins from mway exit and closer than any hospital or ambulance getting to us.

Help!

Sorry to hear about your husband, but seriously? 130MPH on a motorway I can just about cope with (dependent upon traffic conditions), but 105MPH in a 30MPH limit?

That is unbelievably reckless, and you deserve a long ban. End of chat.

Even under blues and twos even the most confident ambulance driver wouldn't get anywhere near that level of risk.


The court will rightly ask why, if your husband is so substantially susceptible to a fit that you carry injectable medicine in stock, you did not have it with you.

Joe_Horner

Not being one to adhere religiously to speed limits (even 30mph ones) unthinkingly at all times, 105 in a 30 needs ban and extended retest regardless of the circumstances.

In fact, arguably even more in the situation you describe because, with a husband in a medical emergency, it's virtually impossible that te driver could be 100% focused on the road.

If home is "under 5 minutes from the exit" (presumably at normal speeds) then, at very most, that 105mph will have saved about 3 1/2 minutes*. Which is NOT worth taking that level of risk over!


*Assuming the whole "5 minute" stretch is a 30 limit, so 2.5 miles, and that the 105 was done for the entire 2.5 miles - taking 1 min 25 seconds instead of 5 minutes. In any other situation the saving would have been even less.

Paully232000

What do you want help with?

Paying (the hopefully) considerable fine, public transport timetables, how to sell a car you no longer need on ebay, how to re-sit your test after a ban, what?

mozlongtime

Christ, you're lucky that there wasn't a horrendous accident especially at 105 in a 30?
Unbelievable.

Is a driver with a condition such as this fit to drive?

Edit: Ah, just noticed it wasn't the driver - my bad.

dannyrst

Depending on the type of 30mph road, time of day etc, I'd perhaps have driven 50-60mph maximum.

What makes you think that in a life threatening situation (I assume from the fact that the driver went so fast?!) for 1 person, you are entitled to endanger the lives of countless other people?

Iceweasel

This is so far over the top that I suspect it's just another troll attempting a wind-up?

robbies_gal

and you kill someone else on the way?

alleycat`

Iceweasel wrote: »

This is so far over the top that I suspect it's just another troll attempting a wind-up?

I've assumed the same.

It'd be interesting to know how they were clocked at 130mph and 105 mph on 2 different road types?

Als isn't the maximum penalty for something like this a prison stretch?

dannyrst

alleycat` wrote: »

I've assumed the same.

It'd be interesting to know how they were clocked at 130mph and 105 mph on 2 different road types?

Als isn't the maximum penalty for something like this a prison stretch?

Assuming police car caught them and recorded. You can be done for speeding twice if it is two different roads I believe?

Strider590

Joe_Horner wrote: »

If home is "under 5 minutes from the exit" (presumably at normal speeds) then, at very most, that 105mph will have saved about 3 1/2 minutes*. Which is NOT worth taking that level of risk over!


*Assuming the whole "5 minute" stretch is a 30 limit, so 2.5 miles, and that the 105 was done for the entire 2.5 miles - taking 1 min 25 seconds instead of 5 minutes. In any other situation the saving would have been even less.

Exactly what I was thinking! Which proves the driver wasn't thinking.

Not proud I once did my 9 mile journey to work in 6 minutes flat, averaging 90mph, at 5am. Saving me just 4 minutes on what it would have taken at the limits........ I sat down, did the math and didn't do it again.