BMW helps nail 105mph V-sign biker
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Story from the register:
A 45-year-old biker who thought it was a bright idea to give speed cameras the two-finger treatment while travelling at up to 105mph, on the grounds that his visor was obscuring his face and he had no registration plate on the front of his BMW, has been banned for a year, The Telegraph reports.
Bus driver Philip Coffey appeared before the beak at Luton Crown Court earlier this week on 10 counts of dangerous driving after he was tracked by police "with the help of BMW and a national registration database".
The jury at Luton Crown Court cleared Coffey on Tuesday of dangerous driving, but found him guilty on nine counts of careless driving. He then offered a guilty plea to a further nine counts of speeding last year in Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard and was duly banned for 12 months and slapped with a £900 fine plus £600 costs.
Judge Michael Kay, QC, told Coffey: "Some of these speeds were eye-watering. You decided to take the system on and I am pleased to say you lost." ®
BMW doing 105mph and getting caught
My worry is that there may just be the odd photo of me!
The Register said:
A 45-year-old biker who thought it was a bright idea to give speed cameras the two-finger treatment while travelling at up to 105mph, on the grounds that his visor was obscuring his face and he had no registration plate on the front of his BMW, has been banned for a year, The Telegraph reports.
Bus driver Philip Coffey appeared before the beak at Luton Crown Court earlier this week on 10 counts of dangerous driving after he was tracked by police "with the help of BMW and a national registration database".
The jury at Luton Crown Court cleared Coffey on Tuesday of dangerous driving, but found him guilty on nine counts of careless driving. He then offered a guilty plea to a further nine counts of speeding last year in Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard and was duly banned for 12 months and slapped with a £900 fine plus £600 costs.
Judge Michael Kay, QC, told Coffey: "Some of these speeds were eye-watering. You decided to take the system on and I am pleased to say you lost." ®
BMW doing 105mph and getting caught
My worry is that there may just be the odd photo of me!
rsv gone! said:
black-k1 said:
My worry is that there may just be the odd photo of me!
Oh come one... not you K1. You're our rock! Our pillar of decency!
You're right. When I go past front facing cameras I would not stick two fingers up! I can't count passed 1 and I don't use my index finger!
It can be entertaining to set the old Gatso's off on opposite side of road. May, allegedly, once of had the occasion to do this to a small convoy of vehicles on an A road. Saw them coming, may have accelerated slightly (allegedly) thus setting camera off. The drivers may have been puzzled by camera flashes but probably not as much as photo lab when confronted with Funeral cars including Hearse in somewhat of a hurry to get to funeral!! 
I'm sure I'll pay for it later in life.
I'm sure I'll pay for it later in life.
I know, and regularly ride past the cameras in question all the time. The roundabout leading on to that road is a bit of a knee down favourite. I've had many a bike fly past me when i've been not exactly been hanging around. I suspect a lot of bikes trigger those cameras all the time. I guess they've been waiting ages to make an example of someone. I suppose the moral is, by a 'blade, much more common
black-k1 said:
What is interesting (worrying!) is that the police appear to trust BMWs data more than the DVLA in Swansea, otherwise they wouldn’t need to ask.
I would have imagined the police would have taken the photograph of said bike and rider to the local BMW dealers asking if they could identify the accused.
The Biker said:
It can be entertaining to set the old Gatso's off on opposite side of road. May, allegedly, once of had the occasion to do this to a small convoy of vehicles on an A road. Saw them coming, may have accelerated slightly (allegedly) thus setting camera off. The drivers may have been puzzled by camera flashes but probably not as much as photo lab when confronted with Funeral cars including Hearse in somewhat of a hurry to get to funeral!!
I'm sure I'll pay for it later in life.
I'm sure I'll pay for it later in life.
you bad man.
R80GS and R100GS, amazing bikes just keep going on and on, love my 100GS - the one bike I will never sell no matter what.
As for the case, the guy was a right numpty. First BMW would have to give out the numbers etc, two he wasnt riding a common bike but the real nail in the coffin... Has anyone seen the picture? He put some dodgy fog lights on the top of the fairing, looked bloody stupid. Anyway, I doubt there is another bike with that light configuration in the world never mind the country...
What a dick!!!!
As for the case, the guy was a right numpty. First BMW would have to give out the numbers etc, two he wasnt riding a common bike but the real nail in the coffin... Has anyone seen the picture? He put some dodgy fog lights on the top of the fairing, looked bloody stupid. Anyway, I doubt there is another bike with that light configuration in the world never mind the country...
What a dick!!!!
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