Police condemn 147mph Jaguar driver

it's quick, but on an empty dual carriageway.. is it really that bad? I *might* have been faster than that... lots of times, can't say I've ever killed a family of kittens.

I guess they just gave him 6 points as he'd be banned from that, doesn't really set a good example though, we could do that twice!
 
The comment from the police officer is just sensationalist exaggerated hyperbole that one comes to expect from people without a clue.

"extremely lucky to be here to face the court" - please. How precious. It's absolute nonsense. People drive at 147 MPH all the time and rarely ever die.
 
There was a time when I'd have called him a **** for doing a ridiculous speed such a that, but once you witness it, the thrill is pretty awesome isn't it? :o Okay, he's a still a ****.

Edit: Not that I have done such speeds btw. I don't even drive at the moment, and I've never driven above about 75.
 
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Local paper covered it in more detail - http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9465916.York_man_drove_Jaguar_at_147mph_on_A64/

Not condoning it but I did have a chuckle reading about the chaps attitude to the whole thing -

Owen Swift...then told officers who chased him for nearly four miles that he expected no more than a ticking off.
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he refused to get out of his silver-grey Jaguar XKR coupe when the patrol car finally caught up with him, and told police: “You can’t have got me. You were on the other side of the carriageway and crash barrier.” He added: “That’s it. This is going to crease me. You could have just given me a bollocking. At my age that’s my livelihood.”
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When Sgt Clayton said he wanted to come and sit in the police car to discuss his driving Swift said: “My response was ‘What a load of rubbish’”. He refused to open his car door, saying he feared doing so so near the road could cause an accident.
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:p
 
It's not really that fast though, is it?

I went out in an XFR during the summer and for periods of the drive he was going around that speed. It didn't feel like it and it didn't take the car long to get there, funny that.
 
PMKeates said:
The comment from the police officer is just sensationalist exaggerated hyperbole that one comes to expect from people without a clue.

"extremely lucky to be here to face the court" - please. How precious. It's absolute nonsense. People drive at 147 MPH all the time and rarely ever die.
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Do you not find that your life flashes before your eyes the second you pass the 70.1mph speed threshold? ;):p
 
acemastr said:
it's quick, but on an empty dual carriageway.. is it really that bad? I *might* have been faster than that... lots of times, can't say I've ever killed a family of kittens.

I guess they just gave him 6 points as he'd be banned from that, doesn't really set a good example though, we could do that twice!
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Not so sure about the empty bit. Although its a dual carriageway, it's a bypass round a major town which many entrance and exits per mile. The report just says "evening" so doesn't specify a time but normally that strtch of road, as a bypass, is very busy.
 
PMKeates said:
The comment from the police officer is just sensationalist exaggerated hyperbole that one comes to expect from people without a clue.

"extremely lucky to be here to face the court" - please. How precious. It's absolute nonsense. People drive at 147 MPH all the time and rarely ever die.
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Exactly

Although completely illegal, i would imagine that doing 147mph in Jaguar XKR on a straight stretch of dual carriageway, at a quiet time, on a clear dry summers evening would be about the best time + place to do it on UK roads.
 
The two articles contradict each other....

One says he was caught by laser gun.

The other that the officers were on the opposite side of the road (with central reservation as they had to turn around) "heard" the car travelling quickly and chased after him. The police had to do more than 100mph to catch him which took 3-4 miles.

Sounds like sensationalised crap to me, if it took them 30 seconds from the Jaguar passing to being able to start the car, drive down the road until they found somewhere suitable to turn around and then turn around, even if the Jaguar was travelling at 60mph, he would be half a mile ahead.



I'd guess that the police had to do 147mph to catch the Jaguar, that the yahoo reporting is wrong and that they pressed the Jaguar driver into a conviction in court.....

Aiming a hand held speed gun in the dark, at a car on the opposite side of a carriageway seems a little ott to me?
 
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