150 mph M25 8-10

[minky monkey]

Surrey road cops have just tweeted that they've seized a Ferrari California (with pictures) and nicked the driver for dangerous driving for the above speed.

Oops.

Edited by minky monkey on Thursday 12th March 23:52

[AlexRS2782]

Link - https://twitter.com/SurreyRoadCops/status/57614581...

[sim16v]

Think of the children... .and kittens!

[Cyder]

Excellent effort by the California driver.

[Dammit]

Getting nicked for dangerous driving is good work? I'd suggest it's the opposite.

[SkinnyPete]

Why only 150 and why bother stopping?

Some people dont deserve nice cars.

[st4]

Whats the justification for Dangerous driving (S2). Just the speed or other factors?

[Pixelpeep7r]

just prior to the lighting of the blues the driver of the Ferrari was heard shouting 'WATCH THIS!' to his passenger..

[ging84]

We're the drivers of the 2 police cars also arrested for the same offence?

[okgo]

dhead. Well done to the coppers.

There is a time and a place for over twice the speed limit, roads with other people are not it.

"were the police arrested for the same offence?" - what has happened to this place? It just seems to be filled with morons now.

[Pixelpeep7r]

ging84 said:

We're the drivers of the 2 police cars also arrested for the same offence?

i wouldn't have thought so seen as they were carrying out their duties.

[PoleDriver]

Cyder said:

Excellent effort by the California driver.

Pfft! Wasn't even trying!

[Hugo a Gogo]

Pixelpeep7r said:

just prior to the lighting of the blues the driver of the Ferrari was heard shouting 'WHERE'S MY fkING DINNER!' to his producer..

EFA

[Pixelpeep7r]

Hugo a Gogo said:

Pixelpeep7r said:

just prior to the lighting of the blues the driver of the Ferrari was heard shouting 'WHERE'S MY fkING DINNER!' to his producer..

EFA

[CAFEDEAD]

Andy Armstrong said:

@Horleytwit @SurreyRoadCops You ARE a twit! Police should be catching burglars not harassing drivers. Speed doesn't kill, just bad driving.

Surrey Roads Police said:

@Andya666 criminals use vehicles to get around so by stopping vehicles we catch criminals too!

Next up, nicking people for breathing.

[ging84]

Pixelpeep7r said:

i wouldn't have thought so seen as they were carrying out their duties.

Makes no difference to dangerous driving. If it was dangerous for anyone to drive 150 there at that time, it was dangerous for everyone, the law is very clear in that respect.
Without any other aggravating factors to make it dangerous driving, the police have either acted unreasonably by charging with DD instead of speeding or the drivers of the cars following also should have been arrested and thier cars siesed.

[okgo]

Are you having a laugh?

Police drivers go through a lot of training to be at the standard they are, they also have sirens and all of that which makes it a lot more safe for them to travel at high speed than a random member of the public.

[motco]

Lucky to find sufficient space on the M25 round there - at any time!

[ging84]

okgo said:

Are you having a laugh?

Police drivers go through a lot of training to be at the standard they are, they also have sirens and all of that which makes it a lot more safe for them to travel at high speed than a random member of the public.

The law is very clear that no of those factors make any difference to determining what is dangerous driving.
Nor does the fact that the person charged was in a very high performance no doubt with capabilities far beyond that of the police cars.

[Dave Hedgehog]

it used to be so much easier to try for the lap record, 20 odd years ago