10 Weeks Porridge = Porsche172 MPH

[carreraboy]

Sentenced today, apparently it was a 911 presumably a C2S .... PORSCHE emphasised in the editorials...he worked for a hire car co and got carried away...

[BlueNGT]

997 Turbo wasnt it!?

[dazren]

BlueNGT said:

997 Turbo wasnt it!?

[carreraboy]

They all seemed mystified that he was actually doing 172MPH he must have still been in fourth! Save it for VMAX!! They (Police) calculated he needed 500 metres at 172MPH to stop.....

[Paulburrell]

I know he was a naughty boy, but for f**ks sake what good will sending him to jail do to anyone??? The only lesson he will learn is next time go to Germany or give up driving and start savagely beating old ladies for their pension money. The latter activity seemingly only attracting a community service sentence. This Country has gone mad.

[sidicks]

dazren said:

BlueNGT said:

997 Turbo wasnt it!?

BBC website confirms Porsche Turbo:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/700...

Sidicks

[anonymous-user]

Paulburrell said:

I know he was a naughty boy, but for f**ks sake what good will sending him to jail do to anyone??? The only lesson he will learn is next time go to Germany or give up driving and start savagely beating old ladies for their pension money. The latter activity seemingly only attracting a community service sentence. This Country has gone mad.

To the write of the above: GOOD MAN , NEVER A TRUER STATEMENT!

500m at 172mph , are they going off the highway code from 1902 or something , surely not?

P

[Wanta996(Gotta)]

Strange that he is going to do time as no-one was hurt, people are getting away with a shorter sentence for allot worse.

[DSM2]

Just heard this on the ITV news. He was doing almost 3 miles per SECOND according to them. It would take at least 500 yards to stop from that speed!

[9hellheaven]

yes he was a naughty boy, but do you know what far worse people do far worse things and avoid clink on a daily basis.
Over the top sentence if you ask me, on the other hand the do gooders who of course never put a foot wrong in this world will be overjoyed.
I wouldnt mind if the playing field was level but it isnt and never will be.
A famous saying springs to mind and I forget whos quote it was but it goes...
"DONT DO AS I DO..DO AS I SAY"...

I read a few weeks ago that they are looking at making it Illegal to travel at speeds in excess of 50 mph with a child in the car..any car.
It will happen if this cotton wool state gets its way..needless to say a big fine will be attached to that also!

[*CQ*]

DSM2 said:

Just heard this on the ITV news. He was doing almost 3 miles per SECOND according to them. It would take at least 500 yards to stop from that speed!

Someone can't add...either that or Porsche have developed a 'new' turbo

[USS Bozeman]

3 miles a second - LOL - must have had one of them Fast & Furious nitrous kits plumbed in !

[Silver993tt]

DSM2 said:

Just heard this on the ITV news. He was doing almost 3 miles per SECOND according to them. It would take at least 500 yards to stop from that speed!

hmmm.....that's 10,800mph. I assumed he managed to hit the red line in 6th then

[Dr S]

Silver993tt said:

DSM2 said:

Just heard this on the ITV news. He was doing almost 3 miles per SECOND according to them. It would take at least 500 yards to stop from that speed!

hmmm.....that's 10,800mph. I assumed he managed to hit the red line in 6th then

Amazing piece of kit, this 997TT...

[Davel]

Whilst the scum bag who had an illegal pitbull, which killed a little girl, only got 8 weeks....

[hot66]

taken without consent ... his boss refused his request to take the car out for a drive, so he took it anyway :roll: ... assume this had some bearing on his sentance

[garyjones1962]

DSM2 said:

Just heard this on the ITV news. He was doing almost 3 miles per SECOND according to them. It would take at least 500 yards to stop from that speed!

From the BBC web site:

Insp Martin Percival, of Thames Valley Police, said: "All road users share a great responsibility to others and need to realise that high speed increases the chance of failing to react to an emergency, let alone take sufficient action to resolve it."

Insp Percival said the 172mph speed equated to 77 metres per second.

"To put that into context, the average duration of a single blink of the eye is 0.3 seconds, during which time the car would have travelled 23 metres (five car lengths)."

[carreraboy]

Do you think if he was driving a souped up TVR or BMW he would have got less porridge?

[anonymous-user]

Don't think it would have made any difference what he was driving. I think he deserved a reaming too. Anyone who thinks it's safe to drive at 172 mph down the A420 needs locking up anyway.

[ScottL]

Just out of curiosity how many metres does it take to stop a 997TT (assuming standard steel brakes) from 172mph?