152mph M5 caught speeding - not anyone on here I hope!

[DanX5]

Quote "Police 'looked at each other in disbelief' as they tried to catch BMW M5 driver, 28, doing 152mph on rural A-road."

Full story here:

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/9831825.Car_is_cl...

[E38Ross]

ouch, that's got to hurt.

I wonder if the road was quiet, and whether any children or bunny rabbits were killed in the process.

[Neil.D]

Prison.

st.

[greygoose]

Suspended prison sentence, pretty stupid to be doing double the speed limit really.

[blugnu]

He says it was only 140-ish. So not so fast at all, really ...

[mmm-five]

It wasn't exactly any old twisty, narrow, 'rural A road' it was a dual-carriageway bypass called the A35.

Yes, 150mph is taking the pee, but I'm not sure I'd have been sticking to 70mph either.

[HammyHamster]

The punishment doesn't fit the crime surely?! A prison sentence seems very harsh. Would a knife-wielding mugger get the same punishment?

[mrmr96]

HammyHamster said:

The punishment doesn't fit the crime surely?! A prison sentence seems very harsh. Would a knife-wielding mugger get the same punishment?

Just for clarity; he was done for "dangerous driving" not "speeding".

[VinceFox]

disclaimer: I AM NOT ENDORSING THIS BEHAVIOUR...



but, it is a VERY long, straight, wide stretch of road. the sentence doesn't seem consistent with other offences and the relative danger caused by them.

[E30M3SE]

These days anything at those sorts of speeds gets turned into dangerous driving and then 'your' looking at a stretch. He should count himself lucky it's suspended.

Don't agree with it but that is the way it is.

[VinceFox]

purely playing devils advocaat here, but what does 60 in a 30 get you? how about 80 in a 40?

[blugnu]

VinceFox said:

purely playing devils advocaat here, but what does 60 in a 30 get you? how about 80 in a 40?

it gets you there in half the time

[VinceFox]

blugnu said:

VinceFox said:

purely playing devils advocaat here, but what does 60 in a 30 get you? how about 80 in a 40?

it gets you there in half the time

oh for f... no, look, listen...

• pinches bridge of nose

[rudecherub]

VinceFox said:

purely playing devils advocaat here, but what does 60 in a 30 get you? how about 80 in a 40?

It should be considerably more. Where limits 20/30/40 are imposed *should* be for good reasons.

e.g. A school, a village, a not yet bypassed historic main road blighted conurbation, and or to bad planning allowing ribbon development on an otherwise NSL road.

Whereas an open NSL road does not have the same dangers.

But of course at 70+ the human brain ceases to function and drivers are incapable of driving circumspectly at higher speeds because they aren't Germans.

[VinceFox]

that upper NSL figure REALLY needs looking at.

[pjv997]

I don't know the road in question but have driven de-restricted autobahn's in Germany that are only two lanes and equivalent to many UK dual carriageways.

Seems disproportionate punishment compared to my perception of sentencing on many violent crimes, or burglary, or car theft, or....

[tjlazer]

It is a fairly ridiculous thing to end up in prison over when absolutely no one gets hurt or is in any danger...obviously he's massively over the legal speed limit and has admitted as much but even so a custodial sentence (whether actual or suspended) seems contrary to the public interest. Still you can go to gaol for 2 years for nicking some pants from Topshop if you happen to do it in August with your mates wearing a hoodie so what do I know?

[tyrrell]

It is a very good straite bit of road and it is very easy to get up to very high leptons of speed but 152 mph is another league.

[ecain63]

Although just along the road from me, it wasnt me!

[Jazzer]

A female friend of mine was done for 138mph on the M11.

When asked in court if there were any mitigating circumstances, she looked straight at the magistrate and said:

"Well Sir, it had just been serviced, with new front brake pads.

And the tyres were top of the range Michelins!"

The look on the magistrate's face (and mine I'd imagine) was priceless!!

{She received a 28 day ban and a £300 fine}