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

Firstly, no, it wasn’t me.

As a professional driver, I value my license and if I was to decide to exceed the limit, firstly,I’d only do it on a stretch without gantry cameras (of which , there are many) and secondly, I’d go nowhere near 50mph over the limit, frankly, I doubt my D5 Volvo would do that anyway in the real world and neither am I likely to try it….

Took my parents for a family funeral to Bury and back today, didn’t exceed 70 once, could have, plenty others were, had a couple of people flashed as we passed Knutsford, something I see daily when I’m in my truck rather than my car today…

Basically he’s admitting he was stupid, got into “a tussle” with some Jag (I assume the camera got them both) late at night,relatively empty (not that it makes it right) and hadn’t fully appreciated his speed until the two flashes and he looked at his speedometer….

BMW M340d.

Ironically, his previous car was a Cayman GTS in which he was very careful of not speeding…

A month or so ban and a fine won’t be the end of the world for him, he can certainly afford it, he’s learned his lesson I’d say from his tone, regardless as to if the almost inevitable letter arrives on his mat or not.

The cameras at J16 are side not gantry to correct my OP.


I’ll update as & when there’s more to say.
 
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The police look very dimly on racing.
However. He may get an out for this.
Not sure if having two vehicles together causes issues with proving who was caught speeding.
If the camera only took the normal 2 pictures which one of the cars has had its speed recorded.
Can they accurately enough measure the distance without any road markings showing distanced travelled.
 
mattyg said:
The police look very dimly on racing.
However. He may get an out for this.
Not sure if having two vehicles together causes issues with proving who was caught speeding.
If the camera only took the normal 2 pictures which one of the cars has had its speed recorded.
Can they accurately enough measure the distance without any road markings showing distanced travelled.
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From a similar situation years back )albeit at very much reduced speed) i know the police can determine which vehicle was speeding in a given camera photograph, basically I got a NIP for doing 49 in a 30, I was in my truck being overtaken by a Mercedes car.

I was actually doing 27 mph.

It went to court,although I’m not sure why, whilst I had a tachograph analysis that effectively exonerated me, it wasn’t requested because they had already determined it was the car speeding not me even though technically I could have achieved that speed ie it was within the trucks speed limiter setting.
 
A lot of people here seem to be thinking he'll get banned for a year or something, when it won't be anything like that in reality. He'll either get 6 points or a ban short enough that he'll probably be able to use his annual paid leave to cover most if not all of it. Unless his work has a specific rule about not employing people with speeding convictions I can't see how there's any chance of him losing his job.

120MPH on a motorway really isn't that big a deal, and the police clearly agree otherwise they'd impose the kind of bans they do for drink / drug driving.
 
woppy101 said:
I once went from the start of the M58 onto the M6 to the end of the A69 at Newcastle in 1hr 45m in my Astra GTE. Young and stupid days
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Same Almost
Filled up my CRX in Southport at 10pm
11:45 I was in my girlfriends flat at Newcastle Uni.
Next time I went up there I buried my CRX in a ditch just past the pub with the flags near brampton. Left hand bend(before the roundabout) at about 70 but mud on the road. Fishtailed down the road. Thought I'd got it back but put a wheel on the verge and got dragged into the hedge. Gap it the hedge and boom in the ditch hitting an old tree stump. 5 seconds later a HGV went past. So I counted my blessings.
 
Even if I know where I’m going, I have Google maps up to forewarn me of motorway cameras. Doesn’t help with mobile cameras though.

I’ve found that I’ve slowed down considerably over the last decade, especially on motorways. This is probably as a result of never being able to beat the arrival time in Google maps no matter what speed I seem to be going at. Might as well stick to the limit!

I have to admit, it’s very tempting on empty roads in dry conditions to “have a go” but when even my fastest car is overtaken as though it’s going backwards by some of the fairly bog standard machines out there it soon loses its appeal.

Seeing some of the six and seven figure exotics at the Broadway car show at the weekend has just reinforced the fact that if I had mega money and time I’d be looking at entering a racing series and getting driver training. Probably in something relatively unexciting like a caterham. Absolutely nowhere to use the stupid performance on offer on the public roads. Nice to look at though!
 
woppy101 said:
I once went from the start of the M58 onto the M6 to the end of the A69 at Newcastle in 1hr 45m in my Astra GTE. Young and stupid days
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Had a road trip down to Southampton for a wedding when I was younger. Mate was driving about 105 on the M1 but another car was luckily doing 120+ when an unmarked police car went tearing past with it’s lights and sirens on. My mate slowed down slightly after that :D
 
Stu999 said:
Had a road trip down to Southampton for a wedding when I was younger. Mate was driving about 105 on the M1 but another car was luckily doing 120+ when an unmarked police car went tearing past with it’s lights and sirens on. My mate slowed down slightly after that :D
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Some people get that luck, others dont
 
Tbh after driving to Leeds today, I don't mind exceeding high speeds, but I was seemingly the only one actually sticking to 30 and 50 on the ooze bridge. I hate it when you've got wagons over taking you.
 
Glanza said:
With him working as NHS management can't imagine he was out in a marked vehicle with blue lights at those speeds?
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do they even drive 120mph? I'd be surprised if the cops even did 120mph on the way to an emergency, seeing as it wouldn't take much for them to become an emergency
 
peterwalkley said:
Moron. J16 is Crewe and not exactly a quiet section either. Surprised they got enough clear road to get to 120.
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Doing speed on either the M6 or M25 is just pure stupidity and he deserves a ban. Cameras everywhere.

I am guessing it was late as that bit of road is normally quite busy as I go to Northwich quite often.
 
200sols said:
Deaths are typically compared per million miles/km travelled when looking at these things. Also did you ignore the bit about the unrestricted parts of the autobahn being worse for deaths?
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I’ll be thinking about that doing 190+ in September.
 
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