120mph on the M6, I’m presuming a ban? (Not for me!)

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A friend has got in touch, saying he got flashed by a gantry camera at an indicated 120mph last week, near Jct 16, wanted to know what I thought, other than he’s a muppet and deserves whatever he gets I wasn’t much help… :D

Clean license, works for the NHS - management - and needs car for his job, I’m thinking automatic ban and plenty of points but, thought I’d ask the collective knowledge base here.

He’s had nothing yet in the post but presumably it’s only a matter of when not if…
 
Ban and 6 points it should be. Sometimes people can cry hardship or something like that about a ban but hopefully he wont wriggle out of it.
 
Do you get banned AND points... I thought once your ban was up your licence was "cleaned"

But
He's gonna have to wait for the letter. If he needs his car for his job then he should be aware of the consequences of his actions... (thats the view the court will take)
They care a lot less about hardship to him but have a little sympathy for the innocents it affects. ( he cant take his mum for cancer treatment etc)

He may be lucky and a HGV got in the way of the picture......

But I'd be planning on the worst
A mate of mine got pulled in excess of 130 and got a Fixed penalty.... He was pretty much on his way to finish himself off after his mrs left him. Told all this to the copper. Admitted had he not been pulled he would have carried on going that fast and was amazed when he went to hand his documents in....

Not all coppers are bad
 
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Scania said:
A friend has got in touch, saying he got flashed by a gantry camera at an indicated 120mph last week, near Jct 16, wanted to know what I thought, other than he’s a muppet and deserves whatever he gets I wasn’t much help… :D

Clean license, works for the NHS - management - and needs car for his job, I’m thinking automatic ban and plenty of points but, thought I’d ask the collective knowledge base here.

He’s had nothing yet in the post but presumably it’s only a matter of when not if…
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People who need a driving licence for work shouldn’t be driving at 120mph.

Tough **** if they get banned. Actions have consequences.
 
If the police have evidence it's a ban incoming for sure IMO, however the driver might be able to swing a shorter ban by pleading that he needs the car for his NHS work etc.

Regarding points and ban, I think it's one or the other rather than both.
 
If you're gonna drive at those speeds at least don't get caught by a stationary camera, I don't think there's any excuse and it shows a lack of care given these things are mapped and fairly obvious to spot.

Unless they can't use the road markings to give an accurate speed for the court, it will probably be in the realms of a ban.
 
With him working as NHS management can't imagine he was out in a marked vehicle with blue lights at those speeds?

No one to blame but himself, anything over 90 / 100 depending on force is a instant courts summons.
 
Many years ago I got done for 117 on a bike, and ended up with a brief court appearance, and came out with a month ban and £300 fine. I'd expect similar still applies.
 
mk1_salami said:
What about in Germany? I can think of loads of places and situations in the UK where I don't think doing 120 is remotely dangerous (in the right car, with the right conditions).
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Well of course it's fine in Germany, it's legal for them, they have the infrastructure and other road users expect it. In the UK we don't and we shouldn't have to expect to be sharing the road with someone doing that speed. At least the way things are. Driving standards to me are shocking lately and the roads are far too busy to be making any haste.

Our limits will only ever shrink, not grow, even if there was a case for it. Imposing limits and enforcing them is good revenue. Also, isn't Germany slowly moving away from derestricted sections of road now too?
 
Dup said:
Well of course it's fine in Germany, it's legal for them.
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So if the new PM got in and made it legal, you wouldn't have an issue anymore?

You know the limit was introduced in the 60's right, with no seat belts, cross-ply tyres and cars that barely made it to 70mph. Suffice to say I'd feel MUCH safer at 120mph in a new 911, than 70mph in a Morris Minor with no seatbelts. Yet, that's legal.
 
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