Police car clocked at 138mph in 50mph

Police car clocked at 138mph in 50mph

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andy118run

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866 posts

205 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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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.

Disco You

3,681 posts

179 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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andy118run said:
One also wonders how swift the Cooper S must have been shifting to have evaded capture.
... and why that wasn't in the article

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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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:

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.

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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The Mini could have easily been be at 70 MPH before the police car is even moving. It's not hard to get away with such an advantage.

Mr2Mike

20,143 posts

254 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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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.
hehe Maybe they were down to impulse only after dealing with a klingon problem?

JumboBeef

3,772 posts

176 months

Tuesday 28th April 2015
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Greg66 said:
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.
Well, yes and no. Any emergency vehicle can travel at any speed when claiming exemptions to the speed limit.

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.

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 28th April 2015
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There was no Mini

Emeye

9,773 posts

222 months

Tuesday 28th April 2015
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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.

Impasse

15,099 posts

240 months

Tuesday 28th April 2015
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"You must have been speeding, I had to do XYZ speed to catch up with you."

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 28th April 2015
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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

4,558 posts

249 months

Tuesday 28th April 2015
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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.

jesta1865

3,448 posts

208 months

Tuesday 28th April 2015
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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.
so for years we've been looking for new motive systems to allow us to reach the stars, and really all we needed to do was duck-tape a couple of astra diesels with the right paint job to the wings of the shuttle, we'd be there already!

Jasandjules

69,825 posts

228 months

Tuesday 28th April 2015
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So the Mini must also have triggered the Gatso at about 180mph to have evaded plod travelling at 140?

Utterpiffle

831 posts

179 months

Tuesday 28th April 2015
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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...

Edited by Utterpiffle on Tuesday 28th April 09:32

Emeye

9,773 posts

222 months

Tuesday 28th April 2015
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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.
That isn't what I said - just not having to fill in excessive paperwork.

T5XARV

600 posts

133 months

Tuesday 28th April 2015
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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 ?
wink

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 ?

supermono

7,368 posts

247 months

Tuesday 28th April 2015
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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)

TommoAE86

2,659 posts

126 months

Tuesday 28th April 2015
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Jasandjules said:
So the Mini must also have triggered the Gatso at about 180mph to have evaded plod travelling at 140?
But but but top gear shouty man says that if you are going over 174mph you don't trigger the camera. wink

matchmaker

8,463 posts

199 months

Tuesday 28th April 2015
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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.
hehe Maybe they were down to impulse only after dealing with a klingon problem?
Maybe they needed some Andrex?

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 28th April 2015
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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.
That isn't what I said - just not having to fill in excessive paperwork.
Fair point. Back of an envelope will do.