Another few for JR!
Discussion
Dear Officer,
A friend of mine regularly blats along a straight bit of 60 limit road at 140 mph indicated. He hasn''t been zapped or anything, but he''s wondering what the penalty could be if he were? Is there a point where mere speeding gives way to dangerous driving?
On a different topic, do county boundaries affect traffic policing? In the sense that would you set up a speed trap, etc near a county border or do forces tend to operate well within their own counties?
Cheers
GB (Silver Griff 500)
The definition of dangerous driving is "a standard that falls far below that of a carefull and competant driver" its a Crown court job so a lot can depend on the jury of the day. But what do you think about 140 or even 120 etc in a 60. I think it could be classed as dangerous so be careful or very observant at least. Penalty ban minimum jail a possibility. We do stick to our boundaries but on occasion we will set up joint initiatives usually to catch car thieves but sometimes as a deterant if we have a very high death/accident rate on a stretch of road between two force areas.
There was a case a couple of years back which you may remember where a guy driving a Honda NSX was clocked and charged at 142mph on the M4 (it may have been a slightly different speed and a slightly different motorway!).
The police charged him with dangerous driving. He got off as he argued successfully that the vehicle was designed for such speeds, and its component parts were moer than up to it.......
N
I remamber reading about that.. it was argued that the conditions the driver and the car were capable of that speed so the speed in its self was not dangerouse. he still got banned though with a hefty fine just not the dangerosue driving bit..
people were worried about it setting a precident and saying that in other combinations of car,driver ability and road conditions it could be dnagerous ore reckless driving to do the same speed. oh yes and if there were two of you it was racing!!!!
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