Police car clocked at 138mph in 50mph
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http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/police_car_clocked_at_1...
Found this a fairly interesting article in one of my local papers. I guess it makes a good headline, though the story itself is probably not that remarkable in the grand scheme of things.
Knowing this road well, I'm pretty sure it was a 70mph dual carriageway for most of its life, until the road safety bods worked their magic (admittedly the junction the police would have passed near the camera at circa 138mph has seen some pretty bad collisions over the years).
One also wonders how swift the Cooper S must have been shifting to have evaded capture.
Found this a fairly interesting article in one of my local papers. I guess it makes a good headline, though the story itself is probably not that remarkable in the grand scheme of things.
Knowing this road well, I'm pretty sure it was a 70mph dual carriageway for most of its life, until the road safety bods worked their magic (admittedly the junction the police would have passed near the camera at circa 138mph has seen some pretty bad collisions over the years).
One also wonders how swift the Cooper S must have been shifting to have evaded capture.
Strange sequence of events indeed. Mini has a rolling start, police car has a Le Mans start, and despite getting up to 138mph on what one assume were roads with good visibility and sightlines, the police car completely loses the Mini.
V odd.
Still, worth a read if only to learn this factoid:
V odd.
Still, worth a read if only to learn this factoid:
The article said:
There is no restriction on the speed at which a police car can travel.
Makes losing the Mini all the more unforgivable. They should have just jumped to warp. Greg66 said:
Still, worth a read if only to learn this factoid:
Well, yes and no. Any emergency vehicle can travel at any speed when claiming exemptions to the speed limit.The article said:
There is no restriction on the speed at which a police car can travel.
However, no emergency driver can claim exemption to dangerous driving and let's say doing 138mph past a school at home time, in the dark, in the wet would most definitely be dangerous driving. Likewise, that same car doing that same speed in the dark, wet etc could well be classed as dangerous driving.
So, yes and no.
Emeye said:
Wha amazes me Is the time and effort spent by police officers filling in reports to justify their actions when they could be out catching crims and helping the public.
Quite right, because the police should be at liberty to do what they want, when they want and being totally unaccountable for their actions all in the name of catching crims.Works in America. I'm watching it on TV now.
mikeveal said:
The article said:
There is no restriction on the speed at which a police car can travel.
Tell that to Einstien, 'e won't be happy.Yes it was a 70mph, but that was many years ago. Even as a 50, there are accidents at that junction, which I've always found odd, as visibility is good.
He was going well to be doing 138 through there though, as the A140/A14 roundabout is only a couple of hundred yards after that camera. Annoyingly, they've recently put up a fence between the two carriageways at that roundabout, so you have to almost stop to see on the approach.
Edit: I just looked on Google maps - it's around 500 or 600 yards to the roundabout, so plenty of stopping distance, but still good going on this short stretch...
He was going well to be doing 138 through there though, as the A140/A14 roundabout is only a couple of hundred yards after that camera. Annoyingly, they've recently put up a fence between the two carriageways at that roundabout, so you have to almost stop to see on the approach.
Edit: I just looked on Google maps - it's around 500 or 600 yards to the roundabout, so plenty of stopping distance, but still good going on this short stretch...
Edited by Utterpiffle on Tuesday 28th April 09:32
Crossflow Kid said:
Emeye said:
Wha amazes me Is the time and effort spent by police officers filling in reports to justify their actions when they could be out catching crims and helping the public.
Quite right, because the police should be at liberty to do what they want, when they want and being totally unaccountable for their actions all in the name of catching crims.Works in America. I'm watching it on TV now.
Jasandjules said:
So the Mini must also have triggered the Gatso at about 180mph to have evaded plod travelling at 140?
No, the MINI had turned off/cop had lost him before then, remember ?The officer would have called this in immediately right ? Along with the reg and failing to stop etc ? Of this there would be a record ?
I was pleased to see big signs up on the a11 into Norwich weekend (where the plebs have once again saddled the motorist with a grossly irresponsible 30mph limit on d/c) saying "police speed check", hopefully this sort of initiative will detect the starsky and hutch wannabes like these guys and get them off the force, or at least off the road where they can earn their (my) money doing something useful to their employers (us)
Mr2Mike said:
Greg66 said:
The article said:
There is no restriction on the speed at which a police car can travel.
Makes losing the Mini all the more unforgivable. They should have just jumped to warp. Emeye said:
Crossflow Kid said:
Emeye said:
Wha amazes me Is the time and effort spent by police officers filling in reports to justify their actions when they could be out catching crims and helping the public.
Quite right, because the police should be at liberty to do what they want, when they want and being totally unaccountable for their actions all in the name of catching crims.Works in America. I'm watching it on TV now.
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