Unsafe at any speed?

[Martin4x4]

84 year old man stopped by Humberside Police for driving Nissan Micra at 100mph on M62

[R8Steve]

I'm not sure what to make of police posting peoples offences on twitter to be honest. Fair enough they don't name him and block off the reg but it just feels inappropriate to me.

[heebeegeetee]

Bloody well done!

[Hugo a Gogo]

yawn

[MyVTECGoesBwaaah]

Blimey, the actual top speed of the car can't be to far off that!

[vinnie01]

Is it wrong to feel somewhat impressed? I'm not sure what's more impressive the Micra doing 100 or the 84 year old

[RizzoTheRat]

Parkers quote it top speed as 96mph so definitely a good effort.

[Impasse]

No mention of the chap driving dangerously, just exceeding an arbitrary number. But a nice picture of a Nissan Micra in case you were unfamiliar with the model.

[R8Steve]

RizzoTheRat said:

Parkers quote it top speed as 96mph so definitely a good effort.

Perhaps he can use that in mitigation in court

[IanCress]

I'm pretty sure that shape Micra came with a 1.2 engine, not a 1.0 as the police have stated.

How can you be a Police officer and not have an indepth knowledge of Micra engine sizes!?

[RobinBanks]

My granddad had a 1.0 litre Corsa when he died in 2004. He reckoned it wouldn't do 100mph but the Daewoo Espero he had before that could.

[Jezzerh]

Traffic bobbies got nowt better to do than share every collar on social media. Give him a ticking off then get back looking for untaxed and uninsured drivers pls.

[Rick101]

Maybe had to do 100mph to catch him up, therefore Micra must have been doing 100mph too.

[ging84]

R8Steve said:

I'm not sure what to make of police posting peoples offences on twitter to be honest. Fair enough they don't name him and block off the reg but it just feels inappropriate to me.

It's either a stock photo or an absolutely mint 10 year old car

edit
took me about 2 minutes to find it

Edited by ging84 on Thursday 13th August 16:27

[Ozzie Osmond]

R8Steve said:

I'm not sure what to make of police posting peoples offences on twitter to be honest. Fair enough they don't name him and block off the reg but it just feels inappropriate to me.

Frankly after the way the police behaved with their Cliff Richard enquiry nothing surprises me any more. The merest sniff of an allegation and they'll hang you out to dry in the media.

See also - "plebgate"

[lostkiwi]

Ozzie Osmond said:

Frankly after the way the police behaved with their Cliff Richard enquiry nothing surprises me any more. The merest sniff of an allegation and they'll hang you out to dry in the media.

See also - "plebgate"

Is that not more an issue with 'Social' media and the way most people are happy to pass judgement on the basis of an incomplete story?
There are numerous cases of social media having destroyed the wrong persons life.

[0000]

We're still pretending a 70mph limit is appropriate though.

[Debaser]

Good effort!

[Jasandjules]

I would say well done him, as long as he still have suitable reactions.

[stargazer30]

Wow, 100mpg in a 1L Micra, I didn't think that was possible. Maybe the 1.2L, but the 1L bubble micra was gutless.