Driver caught doing 154mph and only gets 56 day ban!

cheesyboy said:
I was surprised it wasn't a stronger sentence. Maybe a jail term

This guy got 28 months in jail and 10 years driving ban, albeit for going faster still:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crim...192-mph-in-high-performance-car-a3108241.html

His passenger even got a 2 year driving ban!
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the fact that the guy doing 192mph got a 10yr ban and jailed for 2 years and the fella doing 154mph which is only 38mph less is going to be back on the roads in a couple of months with a fine less than a weeks wages backs up even more what a lame slap on the wrist punishment it was for the guy i linked to.
he should have received similar to the 192mph driver imo.
 
Did ~115 on an empty dual carriageway that I know very well once. Apart from that, speed limit everywhere. Camera vans everywhere. :p

Thing is, I remember the guy around the corner from me was clocked on an empty dual carriageway early in the morning at 140/145 in his M5 and got a years ban. And I believe someone did the same as him a few weeks later on the same stretch in an X5 and got the same punishment. 120MPH+ should be a years ban IMO. But the thing what surprises me the most for his punishment is his age. I thought he'd get burned at the stake. If I maxed mine at 140 I probably would.
 
Having quickly glanced at the video of the 192mph ban guy, you can see he's passing cars and one of them is in the day time. So yeah, fully deserved in that respect.
 
paradigm said:
Hmm.

Having driven at vmax on the German autobahn, I can wholeheartedly say that I'd have felt safer doing the same thing at 3am on the M6 Toll.
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This depends though, because German drivers are (for the most part) *expecting* someone to fly past at 200mph.
Even at 3am on the M6 Toll, no one is expecting you to fly past at 2+ times the legal limit.

If I'm alone, I usually cruise through Germany at 200km/h and even though there's traffic and sometimes clench as I overtake a truck nearing the dotted lined on a two-lane motorway, I feel MUCH safer than I ever would cruising at that speed anywhere else.
Why? 1 - I'm not looking out for the police and 2 - people are expecting very fast-moving traffic in my lane.

Having said that, blatting along at 250km/h on the two lane stretches of autobahn is stressful as you do get peasants and the like pulling out without using their mirrors.
 
Haha. :D

I remember an old teacher telling me of a Metro one of them had, maxed it at 57MPH down the entire length of the coast road (A1058) from Jesmond to Battle Hill. :D
 
[TW]Fox;29862418 said:
Ironically our motorway network is generally better than the Autobahn network - safer and longer slioroads, more lanes, softer curves.
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What is the accident/mortality rate like for the autobahn's in Germany compared to our UK motorways :confused: would be interesting to see a rough estimate.
Are they generally better drivers in Germany? as given the shocking skills of UK drivers on motorways i shudder to think of the accident rates if all the 320d drivers could do 150mph everyday in the outside lane.
 
[TW]Fox;29862418 said:
Ironically our motorway network is generally better than the Autobahn network - safer and longer slioroads, more lanes, softer curves.
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But that's what makes the Autobahn safer, IMHO.

The fact that it is narrow, two-laned and with extremely tight on/off ramps and shorter sliproads means that people don't take the **** and in general pay much more attention than they would pootling up and down the M1 at 60MPH.
 
Dav4 said:
the fact that the guy doing 192mph got a 10yr ban and jailed for 2 years and the fella doing 154mph which is only 38mph less is going to be back on the roads in a couple of months with a fine less than a weeks wages backs up even more what a lame slap on the wrist punishment it was for the guy i linked to.
he should have received similar to the 192mph driver imo.
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there's a difference between getting caught once and getting caught 12 times and getting charged for 4.
 
I have only ever done a stupid speed once (~130 iirc), and that literally was a life or death situation - where I raced to my now wife's house and then chased after the ambulance as she was rushed to hospital.

Being done for speeding was the last thing on my mind during that situation, although I wouldn't consider myself to have been driving dangerously, due to it being late at night, empty roads etc.
 
Doogles said:
I kinda agree with this if you can see ahead and if it is only you in danger then go as fast as you want. It only matters if you see other people about.
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There's never a situation where your just a danger to yourself though, some poor sod has to clean up after such endeavours and we all have to pay for the damage/inconvenience caused should something go wrong. Not to mention family

Speeding to that degree should never be seen as anything other plain stupid.
 
Seems perfectly fair to me. I managed 165 on the A2 at 6am on Christmas morning, that was fun.

Sorry internet police! :p
 
In my current car I've done a tonne once and that was in the middle of the night on a huge open road.

It's not the speed I'm scared of, it's losing my licence as I am hopelessly dependant on it.
 
Man who drove at 37mph in 30 banned for six months
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A 29-year-old man has been banned from driving for six months after breaking the speed limit by seven mph.

Eugene Gerard McErlean of Mullaghnamoyagh Road was driving at 37mph on Main Street in Dessertmartin, last October. He failed to appear at Magherafelt Magistrates Court on two occasions.
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Yet in Northern Ireland we had someone speeding 7mph over gets a six month ban. Granted that this took place in a 30mph, so most likely a built up road, but to give 56 days, to someone doing 154mph is laughable.
 
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