Went for a leisurely drive with the wife today. We were crusing at around 70mph behind traffic, A1 northbound near ferrybridge when a black audi tt, we have the number of it, undercut us and proceeded to tailgate and bully all traffic undercutting and driving dangerously.

Imagine our suprise when he was stopped by the police. Our guess well in excess of 100 mph as he was driving off in the distance. Without doubt karma. My wife wanted to give the "loser" sign to him but I advised against it. He must feel like a real chump now he is banned for 6 months.

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Undertaking, tailgating and managing to get to 100mph still in sight?

He would easily get a ban, well in excess of 100mph surely?

My calculated guess would be between 120mph and 130mph.

Agree what can be proved is more to the point.
Regs

Op, I am glad for you that this sort of stuff is all you have to fking worry about!

Speed differentials between travelling vehicles are incredibly hard to judge accurately when you are travelling at 70mph yourself, especially if you're not an expert on vehicle speeds.

If the Audi was "only" doing 100mph then he is already 30mph faster than you and so he is not going to just creep past you, he's going to motor past you.

And as Streaky has noted, according to your statement, he was racing along at @ 120~130mph whilst tailgating traffic @ 70mph



Also, how did the Audi manage to overtake you in the left hand at @ 130mph?

Surely that means that the left hand lane was clear and so you should have been travelling in that lane?, after all, if you were driving at the 70mph speed limit as you say, then you couldn't have been overtaking anything and so you should have gone back into the left hand lane?

At the end of the day though, you have no idea what the end result of the Police stop was!

Yes, he may get a ban.
He may also get just a warning.
He may only get a FPN if his speed was low enough when the Police stopped him.
He may be off to the cells because the car was stolen.

perhaps he got a congratulations from the Police for at least using the left hand lane when it was clear unlike other motorists by the sounds of it!

Just because you get pulled for going over 100mph doesn't mean you automatically get done for driving over 100mph, trust Me!

Let's have a read of all his other threads then, you know, the ones about the real important stuff.
I am glad that you agree that such an incident is of very little significance in the scale of things, though.

All good points, 4rephill particular.

Yes, I believe it not to be clear. He undertook me whilst I was travelling circa 70mph around30ft behind another car I was waiting to overtake.

I saw the black audi shooting up the inside lane and subsequent to me, travelling significantly faster than the 70mph I was. He pulled direct in front of me in a gap that was not there without me having to break hard in order to avoid a collision. I watched as he tailgated 3 cars at 90mph before accelerating off at the speed I quote. I can be fairly accurate on his speed as I know how fast I was travelling at the time. I could have followed him and indeed overtook him had I wished but his erratic nature was disturbing.

Still I am pleased that at least the driver may get some advice on safe driving. (Having done an advanced motorist course myself it is helpful).

Incidentally I also agree that yes people do sit in the outside lane and potter along. However patience is a virtue and I always feel while not ideal, standing back and giving a flash is far safer than tailgating with your indicator on is far more dangerous a procedure.

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Did your AM course cover the meaning of various functions, like brake?!!

Bellende