Speeding With Kids In The Car.

Speeding With Kids In The Car.

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Tannedbaldhead

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2,952 posts

131 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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Read a couple of stories in the press recently where drivers were lambasted for speeding with "terrified" kids in the car. Terrified my arse. My dad was fast but still not fast enough for us(fair enough he raced an an Intercity 125 in an Audi 100 5E where the railway line and motorway ran parallel, made car tyres scream round corners on our request, take off on humps and drifted his 2.3 Granada on wet roundabouts if his three unrestrained kids in the back screamed "make it skid make it skid" but we want more speed more of the time". If he was caught doing any of that now he'd make the front page of the Daily Mail and many of the sadder risk averse element on here would pontificate about just how outrageous such behavior is.

Is this because the kids of today aren't of the calliber of us 70s kids?

Not my experience. My wee nephew and niece read the big central speedo on my Cooper S and asked if I'd do 150mph for them. I explained the car could only do 140mph and I have to be very careful where and when I do it as if the police caught me I'd be put in prison. My niece replied "it's allright, just do it. If you get caught we'll come and visit you"

MrBarry123

6,025 posts

120 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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I think the point is that driving quickly with kids in the car is completely different to driving dangerously with kids in the car.

Quickly = relatively normal
Dangerously =

GadgeS3C

4,516 posts

163 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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I recall asking dad if he'd do the ton in his (I think) Mk3 Cortina. Was so exciting to see 100mph on the speedo in the 70s!

Spanna

3,732 posts

175 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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I remember when the M6 Toll first opened, I would've been about 12. I was with my dad in his old Lexus GS300, the road was so empty and unpoliced cruising at 140mph+ was an inside lane job. Cannock to Tamworth in 2 minutes hehe

Troubleatmill

10,210 posts

158 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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Tannedbaldhead said:
Read a couple of stories in the press recently where drivers were lambasted for speeding with "terrified" kids in the car. Terrified my arse."
How do you know?

Having done a number of charity days taking underprivileged kids/ kids with cancer etc, around a race track or airfield circuit - the brief was always to tell the child that if they want you to slow down - they just shout "Slower"

Vast majority of kids wanted to go as fast as possible.
A few others were more nervous - and wanted to stay at a pace they were more comfortable with.

And this was with each car being released 30 seconds apart - so nothing to hit.

So, I can see some kids not being totally happy with a ton up on a crowded motorway.

You just don't know.

jonnM

1,102 posts

138 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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My dad had a Sierra Cosworth in 1986. I remember him taking it up to 150mph on the M69 between Hinckley and Coventry, I was 16 at the time and thought it was the best thing ever!

Hackney

6,811 posts

207 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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Troubleatmill said:
Tannedbaldhead said:
Read a couple of stories in the press recently where drivers were lambasted for speeding with "terrified" kids in the car. Terrified my arse."
How do you know?

Having done a number of charity days taking underprivileged kids/ kids with cancer etc, around a race track or airfield circuit - the brief was always to tell the child that if they want you to slow down - they just shout "Slower"

Vast majority of kids wanted to go as fast as possible.
A few others were more nervous - and wanted to stay at a pace they were more comfortable with.

And this was with each car being released 30 seconds apart - so nothing to hit.

So, I can see some kids not being totally happy with a ton up on a crowded motorway.

You just don't know.
He's not saying he knows, it's in the press so supposedly they "know"

Moonhawk

10,730 posts

218 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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OP - don't you know that kids die instantly at anything over 70mph.

In fact it's drivers regularly exceeding 70mph on the M1 which is directly responsible for the high infant mortality rate somewhere or other......

It's scientemefic fact....

Martin_M

2,071 posts

226 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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Is this thread a joke?

Toltec

7,159 posts

222 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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If they were random kids picked up off the street they probably would be terrified.

Come to think of it there are plenty of drivers kids should be terrified to be in a car with irrespective of speed.


Mound Dawg

1,915 posts

173 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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Toltec said:
Come to think of it there are plenty of drivers kids should be terrified to be in a car with irrespective of speed.
Jimmy Savile for example

Tango13

8,398 posts

175 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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I was at Santa Pod a few years back and there was a drifting demonstration going on.

I think the two kids in the back of a very sideways e39 540 were enjoying it more than the bloke driving it laugh

W124

1,497 posts

137 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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My Grandfather was a great driver. He used to stop at various hump-back bridges around Tring and get my long suffering Grandmother to get out and wander up the road a bit then call when the coast was clear. He'd then start the engine and see how high he could get the car - got some serious air on occasion. Great days. He was an absolute hand. I used to follow him when I first drove and couldn't even keep him in sight, despite him being well into his 80's by then. You never saw him brake, just pure smoothness. He drove Talbots. He didn't give a st about health and safety. We used to egg him on and he never let us down. I miss him.

Blayney

2,948 posts

185 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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I used to choose songs specifically to make my dad drive faster.

But then he used to get my grand dad to follow him in the alfa to see how fast whatever dad was driving would go as the alfa seemed to have the better speedo!

grumpy

966 posts

240 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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A Cooper S doing 140?

pits

6,423 posts

189 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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Moonhawk said:
OP - don't you know that kids die instantly at anything over 70mph.

In fact it's drivers regularly exceeding 70mph on the M1 which is directly responsible for the high infant mortality rate somewhere or other......

It's scientemefic fact....
It's actually true, in the 90's I dieded hundreds of times when my dad was driving us around in Germany on the Autobahns.

Countdown

39,690 posts

195 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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MrBarry123 said:
I think the point is that driving quickly with kids in the car is completely different to driving dangerously with kids in the car.

Quickly = relatively normal
Dangerously =
People who drive dangerously generally think they're driving safely. Only a psychopath would do something KNOWING it was dangerous. And if you've convinced yourself that you're not driving like a twunt why would you slow down just because your kids are with you?

Countdown

39,690 posts

195 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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pits said:
Moonhawk said:
OP - don't you know that kids die instantly at anything over 70mph.

In fact it's drivers regularly exceeding 70mph on the M1 which is directly responsible for the high infant mortality rate somewhere or other......

It's scientemefic fact....
It's actually true, in the 90's I dieded hundreds of times when my dad was driving us around in Germany on the Autobahns.
Yes. Unless somebody actually dies it's not dangerous.

Tango13

8,398 posts

175 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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Countdown said:
pits said:
Moonhawk said:
OP - don't you know that kids die instantly at anything over 70mph.

In fact it's drivers regularly exceeding 70mph on the M1 which is directly responsible for the high infant mortality rate somewhere or other......

It's scientemefic fact....
It's actually true, in the 90's I dieded hundreds of times when my dad was driving us around in Germany on the Autobahns.
Yes. Unless somebody actually dies it's not dangerous.
And it's only funny 'til someone gets hurt...


























Then it becomes hilarious rofl

Kawasicki

13,041 posts

234 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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Countdown said:
People who drive dangerously generally think they're driving safely. Only a psychopath would do something KNOWING it was dangerous. And if you've convinced yourself that you're not driving like a twunt why would you slow down just because your kids are with you?
I must be a psycho, I do (and allow my kids to do) lots of dangerous things.

I'm crazy, me.