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

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This guy has been caught doing 154mph maxing out his Leon Cupra on the motorway and is only given a 56 day ban and £250 fine :eek:
how the hell can he only get such a lame punishment for such an idiotic speed. He should have been banned for at least a year and given at least a grand fine for endangering other drivers lives.
Is it any wonder i see drivers doing 100+ on the motorway everyday when even at idiotic speeds you basically get a slap on the wrist from our non existent laws. :(
 
Anyone on here going to admit to going faster than this...

I am actually surprised at the 120 day maximum. I thought over 100 mph would have been an instant year ban.
 
i wouldn't dream of hitting triple figures its bad enough the amount of clowns that pull out on me everyday in the outside lane doing 70 that have no sense of a car's approaching speed.
 
Exactly. Is doing 150MPH on a well-lit motorway, in the dry, 3am on a summer's night at 17ºc something that warrants a harsh punishment?

Granted it's not a clever thing to do, but to arbitrarily state it was dangerous is just as wrong.

LiE said:
Nope, the speed limit doesn't change if it's a clear road...
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Whilst that is true, circumstance means everything in cases like this IMO.
 
I'd say it would depend on the situation but then again if you allowed that "oh if the road is clear then the speed limit is 120mph" then it will be abused and it'll cause more pain than good
 
I've been a passenger in a car that did 152 in Germany on an Autobahn, that was plenty scary enough, to do it in the UK isn't something I would relish the idea of doing tbh.
 
Plenty O'Toole said:
Speeding is subjective.
If it's an empty dual carriageway or motorway then whatever.
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I see your point i suppose we have all put our foot down at one time or another at late night or really early mornings on a nice clear empty road but the fact that he was clocked at 8.55pm proves that the would have still been a fair amount of traffic about which in my opinion is should have received a a full 120 day ban and bigger fine.
 
JOSH86 said:
I've been a passenger in a car that did 152 in Germany on an Autobahn, that was plenty scary enough, to do it in the UK isn't something I would relish the idea of doing tbh.
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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.

2-lanes of unrestricted speed where East German lorries pull out in front of you with meters to spare without indicating, no thanks, I'd rather do it on a well maintained 3-lane UK motorway if it was suitably quiet and the conditions were right.

Dav4 said:
I see your point i suppose we have all put our foot down at one time or another at late night or really early mornings on a nice clear empty road but the fact that he was clocked at 8.55pm proves that the would have still been a fair amount of traffic about which in my opinion is should have received a a full 120 day ban and bigger fine.
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Whilst I see your point, or at least the one you are trying to make, blanket stating that it being 8.55pm does not "prove" that there would have been a "fair" amount of traffic. I can think of many times I've been on a dual-carriageway around here where at 9pm it's empty.
 
Ironically our motorway network is generally better than the Autobahn network - safer and longer slioroads, more lanes, softer curves.
 
I once did 103.6mph on my mates private road.

Except the private road was the M1 and I don't have a mate.

And I got caught :(

And I got banned (only for 30 days though)

And fined (only £75)

Agree with the sentence being too lenient though, although good lawyers can argue pretty much any case nowadays!
 
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