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

I'm saying nothing, absolutely nothing :eek: :D

One of the "recalibrate your mind" things with mine is that it can get to ludicrous speed from a sensible speed so quickly that I often go a bit faster than I intended and then I have to back right off again but, as an example, if I overtake a lorry as I leave a 30mph zone into a NSL and accelerate for 10 seconds I'll be doing over 130mph and I've caught myself doing silly speeds far too often almost without realising i.e Overtake - I'll lift off now that feels like 70mph - speedo shows 130mph :eek:

As for this guy, I wouldn't do it in a Leon. It'd take too long to get to that speed meaning more stress on the car so more likely something may break.
 
peterwalkley said:
Look at the use of the Road:

- Its a main artery between Cambridge and Norwich, so likely to have its fair share of HGV traffic.

- Center-parcs Elvedon Forest is on that stretch, so a load of tourists who don't know the area puttering about.

- USAF Air bases nearby, so a bunch of eegits who want to drive on the wrong side of the road

- There are definitely Muntjack Wild Deer in the area - I've seen them when at Centre parcs and also Thetford Forest.

- Its SUFFOLK !!! They're not the quickest off the mark ..... I have family over there and we do feel like we're stepping back in time every time we visit.
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Giving me a list of conditions under which the road would be dangerous to traverse is not the same as backing up his point that it is dangerous to traverse in any conditions :)

My point was that I reckon that under certain conditions (obviously when traffic is very light), that road would be physically very safe to traverse at high speed along. I'll concede that the presence of wildlife such as deer would be a concern, but even so, the road has unusually wide and flat verges onto open fields, so it's unlikely you'd be taken by surprise by one bounding out of a hedgerow.

I'm not defending the guy, but I sometimes object to the sensationalist "omg baby killer" tone of such articles. There's a difference between doing double the limit along a residential street and doing double the limit on a quiet, open, freshly surfaced dual carriageway, that's all :)
 
ianh said:
One of the "recalibrate your mind" things with mine is that it can get to ludicrous speed from a sensible speed so quickly
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This is the point really. Forgetting the illegal aspect of it at the moment, until you have driven something fast, really fast, it's hard to comprehend how effortless it is. Some guy in his Seat trying to max it over a period of time is very different something like you or I drive that would get to that speed and stop by the time he is around 120mph I suspect and in a vastly shorter, less obvious manner. Doesn't make it right.
 
It's definitely easy to become fairly desensitised to speed with even a moderately powerful car, 100mph doesn't seem particularly outlandish to me, but perhaps the general population has other ideas.

Personally I find things a little too light, confined and generally worrying on road at indicated speeds anywhere near what is stated here. Ultimately if you hit any sort of 3 figure speed then the risks are clear. That said there is definitely a circumstantial element with regards to punishment, I doubt this guy's ban would have been so relatively short had he been blasting along at a busy time etc.
 
ianh said:
I'm saying nothing, absolutely nothing :eek: :D

One of the "recalibrate your mind" things with mine is that it can get to ludicrous speed from a sensible speed so quickly that I often go a bit faster than I intended and then I have to back right off again but, as an example, if I overtake a lorry as I leave a 30mph zone into a NSL and accelerate for 10 seconds I'll be doing over 130mph and I've caught myself doing silly speeds far too often almost without realising i.e Overtake - I'll lift off now that feels like 70mph - speedo shows 130mph :eek:

As for this guy, I wouldn't do it in a Leon. It'd take too long to get to that speed meaning more stress on the car so more likely something may break.
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yes........the Leon is a brilliant car for sure, it's just so damned boring to look at, the Golf R is the same...... no personality at all.
 
Seems like a fair penalty to me. People going to jail/getting suspended sentences for doing these sorts of speed is bonkers when there is no accident - and how often do you hear of motorway accidents involving these sorts of speeds?

IIRC, the difference in accident rates between de-restricted and restricted sections of autobahn is negligible.
 
Conscript said:
Giving me a list of conditions under which the road would be dangerous to traverse is not the same as backing up his point that it is dangerous to traverse in any conditions :)
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According to the article, he was doing that speed at 8:55 pm ..... I think my points are all valid. I know its a bit sleepy round there and the natives can't handle it when the big shiny yellow thing in the sky is gone, but before 9pm - that road is still going to have significant traffic.
 
I think the time is irrelevant

I worked near Severn Beach for a while and there were times that a good stretch of the M48 was completely empty with no cars in sight around 4pm. So naturally I took that (when it was a nice, warm and dry day) as an opportunity to red line my bike. Which may or may not have been quicker than that chap.

No one got hurt though, so what's the problem?
 
Regularly hit 100 overtaking on nsl roads.

Fastest I've been would be about 130 at 3am coming up the m74. Straddled lanes 2 and 3 for good measure.

**** car feels light at that sort of speed so don't like doing it for too long.

I feel comfortable at 100 and I feel that I keep my tyres tip top and I known my brakes are in good shape. Been pulled for indicated 110 indicated, in excess of 96 according to the cop.

I've been tailgated bt old women in fiestas who drive to triple digits with there hands at 11 and 1.
 
peterwalkley said:
According to the article, he was doing that speed at 8:55 pm ..... I think my points are all valid. I know its a bit sleepy round there and the natives can't handle it when the big shiny yellow thing in the sky is gone, but before 9pm - that road is still going to have significant traffic.
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Totally depends on the road/day.
 
Thank God for that! I might keep my licence a bit longer! Lol

Going down motorway at 70ish but kept changing to 50 every mile or two and then back... hoping I didn't miss one! That is my worst concern. The fact that my car is incredibly floaty at 150mph is beside the point... ;) lol
 
kaiowas said:
I think you'd also be surprised to find how many people have never had a car that's 250bhp+
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Its actually very easy to do in Old cars too!:p

Back in the 80's (You know, when Policemen were not tax collectors and the attitude towards travelling quickly wasn't actually nuts)

I recall a time when I was doing a, perfectly normal L3 Motorway speed back then, of around 90 when a Police Jag came up behind me, Fast, with the blues and twos and everything.

"Obviously" this was not for my benefit (Really, unlike today, it really wouldn't have been!)

He was however in a real hurry. L2 was crowded.

I had three options.

#1 Slow down and try to merge with L2

#2 Keep going until i got to the gap I could see in L2 about half a mile ahead.

#3 (#3 :D ) Floor it and get to the gap as quickly as possible and then brake into it in order to allow the nice officer to make the most rapid progress.

Of course, it was the 80's, so I did #3! :D

Since I was driving a Jag V12 at the time, I peaked out at around 120-130 (That is as fast as I think I have ever driven) with the Police car in close pursuit.

As I pulled over into L2 and braked hard to allow them to pass, they gave me a nice wave as they went on their way.

I wouldn't do that today mind! :(
 
Conscript said:
Could you explain why? If I'm looking at the right section, it's long, straight, with clear visibility and the whole road has recently been resurfaced with fresh tarmac. And there's only one major junction in about 6 miles.

What am I missing which would make this piece of road, which seems absolutely ideal and purpose built for high speeds, madness to negotiate at more than 100mph?

Not being facetious, or justifying this guy's actions. But genuinely interested what makes this road so dangerous I've driven once before, but at the time it was being widened so it was basically a roadworks zone.
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Elevation changes, farm traffic, holiday makers, holiday makers, foreign truckers, Suffolk drivers, American drivers from Lakenheath, people returning from race meetings at Snetterton thinking they're BTC/BSB heroes.

On top of all the usual reasons for not closing on slower traffic at over 70mph when you're not trained to do so safely.
 
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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It wasn't just one offence for the guy that was imprisoned. It was multiple offences over a couple of years.
 
Gibbo said:
Yes is a shame, I always hoped M6 toll might be unrestricted limit when conditions are dry and traffic low.

But saying that few weeks ago on motorway I was cruising around 90mph indicated in M3, which does over-read, was around 84mph GPS I think, straight pass a camera van, had nothing through the post.

Either his camera was not being operated or because the entire motorway was moving at 80+ maybe to get the ticket you need to be going faster?
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That would be a nightmare. The only unrestricted road in the UK would be chock full of idiots trying to see how fast they can go!:(

Fastest I've done is around 130mph in Germany in a Passat. I'm happy not to do that again. I guess you get used to the speed in the end but still... Never got anywhere near that speed in the UK though and here everyone dordles.
 
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