Just followed trafpol at a constant 90-100mph!
Discussion
WildCat said:
Nah, thats umpossible :fingersinears:
Out of interest, could they justify doing me for speeding if they were speeding in front of me without lights on, Surely they would get in trouble too?
They could have come on the slip, noticed the rear view filling with a pretty slippy Jag. They've then moved up to record speed on vascar. They can do that from ahead of you.
But don't panic. If they were bothered they would have stopped and had words.
And we don't need video for prosecutions, although most people would be looking for some kind of video/photographic evidence now before admitting guilt. Yet another development we have to thank speed cameras for.
Und so Liebchen - as in apple case - they use the police helicopter after the even in bid to "prove the road dangerous"
IaHa said:
And we have numerous justifications for speed. I'm happy to move faster than the motorway flow to look for offences like h/h mobile phone use (and careless driving attributable to it), drivers not in proper control, tailgating through lack of concentration or aggression, bad lane discipline, tiredness, and other examples of carelessness or aggression. All of these are much much more significant collision causation factors than controlled speeding.
This ist what my liebercousin says ... got my own back testing one of our cars on track though
He started to pray at one point
But ist good that you look for all other "naughties than speeding" -- I hope you got the weavering tailgating twazak in the Focus who could not make up mind as to whehter he wanted L2 or L3 at one point - so he used boththough when you roared past us the other day on M6
Und we trust you tell 'em about C O A S T in voice to rival lieber IG.
As you know Wildy, I always preach COAST. I even have keyrings made by a good friend with COAST explained on the back, which I dish out to boy racers. I believe it helps. Makes 'em think.
There's more than one way to try to make road safety inroads. Encouraging people to improve their 'motoring' skills is IMO one of the most important.
Wildcat said:
My driving has never yet been officially complained about, but if it was a simple case of exceeding the limit on the motorway, I'd report back that I only use excess speed when appropriate for the job I am doing. Can't see any problem there!
I wonder if that would work for rest of us rushing to get our Christmas dinner ingredients - und so weiter.
I have enough to do to look after two, so I take my hat off to you!. I'd give you a healthy dose of discretion Wildy, but I think I'd stop you anyway, just to listen to that wonderful accent.
Peter Ward said:
My driving has never yet been officially complained about, but if it was a simple case of exceeding the limit on the motorway, I'd report back that I only use excess speed when appropriate for the job I am doing. Can't see any problem there!
I assume that you don't really mean "excess speed". It may be the term that the partnerships use for exceeding the speed limit in a bid to make it sound dangerous on its own, but that's not the point. Excess speed is dangerous; high speed isn't necessarily, and if it's a trafpol then almost by definition it won't be.
Yep, my mistake.
And I'm normally pretty careful on this site. Exceeding the limit is of course what I mean. Excess speed is always inappropriate. 
IaHa said:
Nah, thats umpossible :fingersinears:
Out of interest, could they justify doing me for speeding if they were speeding in front of me without lights on, Surely they would get in trouble too?
They could have come on the slip, noticed the rear view filling with a pretty slippy Jag. They've then moved up to record speed on vascar. They can do that from ahead of you.
But don't panic. If they were bothered they would have stopped and had words.
And we don't need video for prosecutions, although most people would be looking for some kind of video/photographic evidence now before admitting guilt. Yet another development we have to thank speed cameras for.
Und so Liebchen - as in apple case - they use the police helicopter after the even in bid to "prove the road dangerous"
IaHa said:
And we have numerous justifications for speed. I'm happy to move faster than the motorway flow to look for offences like h/h mobile phone use (and careless driving attributable to it), drivers not in proper control, tailgating through lack of concentration or aggression, bad lane discipline, tiredness, and other examples of carelessness or aggression. All of these are much much more significant collision causation factors than controlled speeding.
This ist what my lieber
But ist good that you look for all other "naughties than speeding" -- I hope you got the weavering tailgating twazak in the Focus who could not make up mind as to whehter he wanted L2 or L3 at one point - so he used both
As you know Wildy, I always preach COAST. I even have keyrings made by a good friend with COAST explained on the back, which I dish out to boy racers. I believe it helps. Makes 'em think.
There's more than one way to try to make road safety inroads. Encouraging people to improve their 'motoring' skills is IMO one of the most important.
Wildcat said:
My driving has never yet been officially complained about, but if it was a simple case of exceeding the limit on the motorway, I'd report back that I only use excess speed when appropriate for the job I am doing. Can't see any problem there!
I wonder if that would work for rest of us rushing to get our Christmas dinner ingredients - und so weiter.
I have enough to do to look after two, so I take my hat off to you!. I'd give you a healthy dose of discretion Wildy, but I think I'd stop you anyway, just to listen to that wonderful accent.
Liebchen
Ist hard but enjoyable work looking after this family. We are firm parents und allow "discretion"
too! I usually drive the Jag around on normal trips here. Ist the one which has some naughty kittens in back seat
They pull rudest faces at Steviebabe's vans 
but give 
nice wave to cops! I am sure you must have seen us both om M6 Ja.. my typing ist more or less how I do talk... und my fingers hust seem to wander to the keys phonetically peculiar to me.
Appenzeller ist a nasal Schwyz dialect - lazy, und laid back but we have stubborn streak too
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I think it's more to do with public trust of the police. Now that might be partly due to speed cameras but I think it's wider than that -- multiple miscarriages of justice, police chiefs spouting the government's propaganda,
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That's a little unfair, given how often ACPO or a particular force publicly DISAGREE with the Home Office in recent years.
I think it's more to do with public trust of the police. Now that might be partly due to speed cameras but I think it's wider than that -- multiple miscarriages of justice, police chiefs spouting the government's propaganda,
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That's a little unfair, given how often ACPO or a particular force publicly DISAGREE with the Home Office in recent years.
hedders said:
Ja.. my typing ist more or less how I do talk... und my fingers hust seem to wander to the keys phonetically peculiar to me.
But it is only a recent habit, you didn't write like this last year!
and i used to find your posts MUCH easier to read!
Liebchen -- before latest kitten I used to have time to put my posts through the spell checker - und found I was correcting every other word
(it does take some time ... ) Ist that I do not have same time to juggle like I used to... Perhaps when youngest ist little less demanding on me ... So ist case of gabble reply - und hit submit these days instead to being a little more patient.. I have luxury of secretarial staff for my real work Travelled up the M1 very nicely yesterday. I guess traffpol use discretion, if one is doing 95 and the individuals driving manner is impeccable, surely thats just words of warning. However, I'm perplexed by the no of people who tailgate each other at 70 in lane 2. Its definately safer to sail by at 95-100 than to spend 200miles weaving in and out of utter numpties. If you get stopped fair play, accept it. I think that if you check the junction bridges, slip roads (incl services)and slow down there, rear view mirrors and have knowledge of the obo areas and regularly check rear view all is fine!
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