This will cause a few folk to tut !!

 

http://cars.msn.co.uk/carnews/news15027jan06/Default.asp

 

Alan.........

He's Right though!

Will still get a ban on other offences.

hmmmm, what worries me more is that a boxster got to 150mph. Either yuned or it was actually a 911.

All I can say is that I wouldnt want me and my Z to be on the same piece of road as that goon, no insurance+stupid speed+unfamiliar car=severe crashage. He only stopped speeding as he was caught!!!!!! To say he would have carried on driving safely afterwards at 70mph if he hadnt been stopped is pretty naive! I'm glad he's off the road.

thank the lord there was some common sense shown by the judge there, although :slap: the driver for no insurance.

 

However The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents slammed the decision saying: "If driving at 150mph isn't dangerous driving we don't know what is."

...how about 50mph past a school, or 60mph round an icy bend, or through a red light, or drink-driving, you stupid f00kwits :xxx:

Fair play to the bloke. Obviously hes a total twat for not having insurance but he will suffer the consequences no doubt for that?

he court was told that Whittle, driving a Porsche Boxster, was speeding on a straight road free of other traffic on it in an area with few houses and that he braked for bends.

 

So if your on an empty motorway, obviousley there will be no houses on it, and you brake for the bends, and you are doing 150mph, this will be considered ok??

i like to know what our fried mr clarkson would say about this

i like to know what our fried mr clarkson would say about this

 

Fried!! Dont tell Macca!

He will still get disqualified and a hefty fine!

I agree with the principle - 150mph on a straight, empty motorway in clear dry weather is not dangerous, as long as you are in a car built for that kind of speed. And be honest here, how many of us have put that to the test........ :nelson:

 

The sort of cars I'm referring to are those built from the ground up as sports or GT cars (300zx, Aston, Porsche, etc), not some chavved-up Nova with a Calibra Turbo engine :x:

 

High speed itself doesn't kill, just inappropriate speed for the road/vehicle conditions and poor driving cause accidents and deaths.

 

I have admitted on several occasions in group discussions that I regularly drive at 100mph on a clear, dry empty m-way. I do slow down when traffic volume increases or in bad weather etc. Yet many people gasp in horror that I have exceeded 100, they look at me as if I've just shat on the floor and tell me I should be shot for my crimes......

 

.....yet most of those same people think it's fine to drive at 40mph in a 30 zone, past schools etc. Common sense tells you that is more dangerous than my 100+ m-way exploits. Stupid tree-hugging w@nkers :rant:

 

That fella in the Porsche should be heavily penalised for his actions though. He sounds like an inexperienced driver and having no insurance is inexcusable. Plus it was probably a single carriageway road - are there any stretches of dual in the IOW? At 150 you'd fly off the end of the island in a couple of minutes, surely :D

 

Richard :smw:

Haveing read my earlier post. I said fair play to the bloke. (for getting away with dangerous driving) Because although yes it can be dangerous in the worng hands. If a copper can get away with it then its good to see a member of the public doing so. Country lanes are not the place for 150MPH. motorways yes you take your chances and if you get nicked then tough luck. You can have just as mcuh fun on country roads at 70 or 80 its all about handling and not full on top speed. As proved on christmas eve with that bloke in the zed that was killed. It only takes one mi-nute error and you are the finished artcile.

Haveing read my earlier post. I said fair play to the bloke. (for getting away with dangerous driving) Because although yes it can be dangerous in the worng hands. If a copper can get away with it then its good to see a member of the public doing so. Country lanes are not the place for 150MPH. motorways yes you take your chances and if you get nicked then tough luck. You can have just as mcuh fun on country roads at 70 or 80 its all about handling and not full on top speed. As proved on christmas eve with that bloke in the zed that was killed. It only takes one mi-nute error and you are the finished artcile.

 

Bad example there - SOC estimated he actually hit the tree at 60... i.e. not left the road at 60!

 

I think the ruling's good for motorists as it defies logic that drving at speed is inherently dangerous.

I have to say that charges like Dangerous driving, Driving without due care etc, wind me up as, as I see it, the charge is open to the interpretation of the police driver following who, obviously, has little or no knowledge of that particular driver, car etc and so is in no position to judge whether the manouver is dangerous particularly as he is behind the vehicle in question, his perception of events is totally different even without him concentrating on his own diving.

 

The last time I was stopped the cop accused me of dangerous driving as I had "endangered the life of himself and his passenger by forcing them to follow me at excesive speeds". He was less than impressed when i had a lok at the back of the car for the tow rope as I could see no other way that I forced him to follow me, particularly as, when he flashed his lights I puled over immediately.

 

I wonder was it anything to do with the fact that I ridiculed his "calibrated speedo" when he claimed I was doing twice the speed limit? Or maybe the fact that when he claimed "I'm a reasonable man and I accept that everyone speeds" I asked him to define how much over the speed limit was a reasonable speed, so that I knew I wouldnt be nicked in future?

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: Until about two years ago , I had lived on the Isle of Wight for over twenty years . The road this character did 150 MPH on is known locally as the Military Road and it it runs along the south coast of the I.O.W. , where it suffers from coastal erosion , and the road is getting nearer to the cliffs . It is the only realistic road to get up to any speed on , the only dual carriageway being in Newport , and about three seconds long , and restricted !

However , the Military Road is quite narrow , bumpy , dippy and uneven , to say the least . Over the years , I accidentally got to about 100 MPH on it ( including in a 300ZX Z31 Turbo ) , but at that speed I often felt I didn`t have all four wheels on the road at once :( Stability is , let`s say , tenuous . What this twot was doing was risking just taking off , and losing the thing and hurtling either left (OK ) or worse , right...into some poor fooker on holiday with his family .

By the bye , a well-known and liked local bike dealer lost his life on that road when a tractor emerged from a gate on that very road , with which he was extremely familiar .

Motorways are built for speed..former cart-tracks in a state of ill-repair are not . And anyway...who drives a Boxter without insurance ? Who actually owned it ? Not Twatty , I`ll wager ! :headvswal

Haveing read my earlier post. I said fair play to the bloke. (for getting away with dangerous driving) Because although yes it can be dangerous in the worng hands. If a copper can get away with it then its good to see a member of the public doing so. Country lanes are not the place for 150MPH. motorways yes you take your chances and if you get nicked then tough luck. You can have just as mcuh fun on country roads at 70 or 80 its all about handling and not full on top speed. As proved on christmas eve with that bloke in the zed that was killed. It only takes one mi-nute error and you are the finished artcile.