Caught doing 120mph on the motorway
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ORD said:
On the way back from John Lewis just now I was trying to stick to the speed limit but ended up doing 164mph without noticing. These things happen when you're a company director with enormous balls.
Note: some or all of the above may be a pisstake.
Yes, in a similar vein, I regularly reverse out of the garage at something approaching 130 mph, without any intention of doing so. Obviously, I only know this has happened because I had the foresight to fit a 2nd speedometer on the parcel shelf to give me something to look at while reversing, and I find it helps enormously when faced with this kind of tricky situation!Note: some or all of the above may be a pisstake.
Heaveho said:
ORD said:
On the way back from John Lewis just now I was trying to stick to the speed limit but ended up doing 164mph without noticing. These things happen when you're a company director with enormous balls.
Note: some or all of the above may be a pisstake.
Yes, in a similar vein, I regularly reverse out of the garage at something approaching 130 mph, without any intention of doing so. Obviously, I only know this has happened because I had the foresight to fit a 2nd speedometer on the parcel shelf to give me something to look at while reversing, and I find it helps enormously when faced with this kind of tricky situation!Note: some or all of the above may be a pisstake.
Heaveho said:
Yes, in a similar vein, I regularly reverse out of the garage at something approaching 130 mph, without any intention of doing so. Obviously, I only know this has happened because I had the foresight to fit a 2nd speedometer on the parcel shelf to give me something to look at while reversing, and I find it helps enormously when faced with this kind of tricky situation!
Does the speedo go backwards when you are reversing though ? are you really doing -130 mph ?Pete317 said:
What? That it's possible to know you're going fast but not quite realising that you're actually going a bit faster than you thought, or the straw man which someone created about 70-120 in the blink of an eye?
Serious Question if you were driving down a motorway in the early hours, do you honestly think you could do 120mph and not realise you were going that fast ?pinchmeimdreamin said:
Pete317 said:
What? That it's possible to know you're going fast but not quite realising that you're actually going a bit faster than you thought, or the straw man which someone created about 70-120 in the blink of an eye?
Serious Question if you were driving down a motorway in the early hours, do you honestly think you could do 120mph and not realise you were going that fast ?I regularly do high speeds for work (three figures) and I'm not left in any doubt as to a/ how fast I'm going and b/ how quickly things can go wrong at that speed.
If you are oblivious to a/ then you are not aware of b/. That leads to a very dangerous situation and if this is you, frankly, you shouldn't be driving.
If you are oblivious to a/ then you are not aware of b/. That leads to a very dangerous situation and if this is you, frankly, you shouldn't be driving.
Edited by JumboBeef on Sunday 12th July 16:34
anonymous said:
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A possible scenario: you're in a car with a quiet engine, and with music playing you can't really hear it at all.
You pull into L3 to pass what turns out to be quite a long line of traffic in L2. So in order to make progress past them you accelerate gently to add around 20mph to your speed.
But, while you're passing them, the vehicle at the head of the line moves over into L1 and the line of cars in L2 start gently accelerating up to 20mph faster.
You don't really notice they're accelerating, and you almost unconsciously press the pedal a bit harder to maintain your speed differential.
But then you see the 1-mile sign for your junction coming up, so you give just a little extra juice to pass the remaining few cars and get over to L1 in good time.
Just then you look down at your speedo to discover you're now doing around 50mph more than when you started your manoeuvre.
You just keep giving a little extra juice for a variety of reasons and all of a sudden you're going how fast? A good 50mph faster than when you started, which for the sake of argument was 70mph (given all the L1 / L2 stuff you posted).You pull into L3 to pass what turns out to be quite a long line of traffic in L2. So in order to make progress past them you accelerate gently to add around 20mph to your speed.
But, while you're passing them, the vehicle at the head of the line moves over into L1 and the line of cars in L2 start gently accelerating up to 20mph faster.
You don't really notice they're accelerating, and you almost unconsciously press the pedal a bit harder to maintain your speed differential.
But then you see the 1-mile sign for your junction coming up, so you give just a little extra juice to pass the remaining few cars and get over to L1 in good time.
Just then you look down at your speedo to discover you're now doing around 50mph more than when you started your manoeuvre.
So 120mph. A good 70% over the speed limit. All this happened without the driver really noticing.
Jog. The. f
k. On.Comprehension isn't one of your strong points, is it? If you read it properly you will see that the actual amount not really noticed amounts to about 20mph.
In other words, you think you're going 30mph faster but you're actually gong 50mph faster.
Or is it anything goes for the sake of scoring points?
Whatever it is, f
k off now and go bother someone elseI'll reasonably regularly be doing the sort of speeds frowned upon by the hand wringers, but I'm bothered enough about my license not to let it happen without knowing......obviously that rule goes out of the window when reversing out of the garage, as I made clear in my earlier post, but, being a Billy Bigbks type, who sees the instructions in Veet for men, with regard to not liberally spreading it on the knob and plums region, as a challenge, lives on the edge, bends all the rules, and laughs in the face of danger, I've learnt to live with the occasional accidental lapse of discretion.
Can't wait to be a red bull swilling company director, the fun they must have!
ks type, who sees the instructions in Veet for men, with regard to not liberally spreading it on the knob and plums region, as a challenge, lives on the edge, bends all the rules, and laughs in the face of danger, I've learnt to live with the occasional accidental lapse of discretion.Can't wait to be a red bull swilling company director, the fun they must have!
I think Pete's scenario is fairly realistic. In a car with long gears, an auto box and loads of torque, you could quite easily fail to noting quite how much speed you were putting on. But you would know you were obliterating the limit and should, in any case, keep an eye on the speedo in a car like that!
S14 said:
Last night wasn't great. It's my own fault I know but on a nice quiet stretch of motorway at 1am on a Sunday night I got nicked doing just over 120mph. Not good but if you take these risks you have to face the consequences.
You do yes.S14 said:
Currently I have a clean licence and I need my licence for work. I won't loose my job as I am the director but it will be a pain.
It will be yes.S14 said:
What do you lot reckon I will get?? Worst case and most likely it's a ban. With a very good solicitor and a lucky mag on the day I'm hoping (praying) for 6 points and a bigger fine.
That sums it up just about spot-on. S14 said:
Thoughts please guys? Btw the police were very nice and just doing their job, I knew what I had done and made my bed so now I must lay in it!
What a refreshing attitude.It would seem bans for 120mph are hard to come by these days so you may well be lucky. Parhaps they should stand magistrates (and perhaps some nuggets posting herein) on a track and have cars drive past at 70mph then 120mph; bans will probably be more common then.
It's down to luck of the draw in the make up of your bench but you have summed up the likely outcomes quite well.
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