6 month ban for Doncaster driver

[gsewell]

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/month-ban-Pors...

Having watched the video on Look North a few times, where they only showed the hard braking when he spotted the police camera, it looked like a good straight piece of road with good clearance to the bikes. So, ok 113mph was a little excessive when there are so many witnesses, but a 6 month ban?

At least the magistrates agreed that it was not "dangerous".

[911p]

Link to vid?

[Magic919]

The braking but does look a bit iffy. Fast those 996s.

[agtlaw]

911p said:

Link to vid?

speeded up ITV video

normal speed video

Edited by agtlaw on Wednesday 9th January 17:02

[edition]

Surprised he said that it wasn't dangerous. i wouldn't have said the speed was the issue..... More the dodgy swerve into the verge then the lockup.

Nasty bit of driving!

[SalesManager]

He should appeal if poss for an excessive sentence.

[agtlaw]

SalesManager said:

He should appeal if poss for an excessive sentence.

6m is probably a totting up ban.

[Pesty]

I've never seen a camera van on that road. I'd better watch out.

[thegoose]

agtlaw said:

6m is probably a totting up ban.

article with video link said:

A driver from Lincolnshire caught on camera doing a 113 miles per hour in a 60 zone has been banned from the roads for six months and fined for careless driving.

[rob.kellock]

Careless driving is 3 - 9 points or discretionary ban. I'm with agtlaw, totting up ban is more plausible explanation unless anyone knows otherwise?

[GreatGranny]

I think 6 months is too lenient! (Sp?)

He was doing over 100 on a single carriageway road whilst overtaking a line of bikers with pedestrians on the side of the road and braking so hard he locked up and swerved so clearly not in full control.

If it was a GTR would you be asking for a reduced ban and saying it was too harsh?

[agtlaw]

Goose, I had read that. It is more likely to be a totting up ban than a ban for the offence.

[VinceFox]

managed to make a very expensive car look really cheap.

[Pope]

From bbc website http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/england/lincolnshire

Mr Judd, who had been driving home from Skegness, was found guilty of carless driving and speeding.


Carless driving - haha tricky!

The underperforming was probably MAF sensor which put on his psm light and switched the system off allowing the lock-up.......

The bikers all need a chat for bunching up imo - no distance between them at all and all in line....

[911p]

I should think he'd have got a much lesser consequence had he simply completed the overtake and not done any braking.

As for the lock up, a faulty MAF is actually a plausible explanation!

[Mutt]

The video looks rather sped up to me, plus there is going to be a certain amount of foreshortening effect from the camera. Still, probably not the brightest move ever made extra special by the clouds of smoke from the lock up.

[graemel]

and his anti lock brakes don't work either

[Diderot]

Mutt said:

The video looks rather sped up to me, plus there is going to be a certain amount of foreshortening effect from the camera. Still, probably not the brightest move ever made extra special by the clouds of smoke from the lock up.

This. Comically sped up. And surely the bikers are keeping up with him?

[TonyB66]

I think he was lucky to get away with only 6 months. I thought that it was automatically 12 months if caught doing more than 100mph?

[FisiP1]

Whatever caused that swerve under braking was the worst part about that IMHO.

Looks like there was loads of visibility and plenty of width on the road.

Seemed a case of staying on the opposite carriageway for the shortest amount of time while overtaking rather than speeding for the sake of it (not that that probably has any bearing to the law, but its a reasonable argument from logic).

Bikers looked too close together as well.

Edited by FisiP1 on Tuesday 8th January 23:19