Speeding - Plod And the Law...
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Wow, that is a catchy title...
Of course this is purely a theoretical question.
If you are speeding and you go passed Plod, who then gives chase, if they don't catch you, how long do you need to worry?
For example if you overtake an unmarked car, at high speed and it then lights up like a christmas tree....
Or if you are on a dead straight bit of NSL, travelling a bit quicker than the letter of the law stipulates, when a marked vehicle travelling in the opposite direction does a U-Turn and follows you....
Or even if you notice some blue lights in your miror at night, but you move your right foot away from the following car, and they don't catch up...
I was just wondering...
Of course this is purely a theoretical question.
If you are speeding and you go passed Plod, who then gives chase, if they don't catch you, how long do you need to worry?
For example if you overtake an unmarked car, at high speed and it then lights up like a christmas tree....
Or if you are on a dead straight bit of NSL, travelling a bit quicker than the letter of the law stipulates, when a marked vehicle travelling in the opposite direction does a U-Turn and follows you....
Or even if you notice some blue lights in your miror at night, but you move your right foot away from the following car, and they don't catch up...
I was just wondering...
If your on the A303 doing really silly speeds having a bit of a burn up as you do (not these days though).
15 Miles & 12 mins it took for them to catch me up....
By which time I had slowed down a bit as I was running out of fuel.
"Rather enthusiastic driving" was the comment as they sat me in the 2.5 Vectra, showed me the Vascar unit & handed me a 96mph ticket.
3 points & £60 later, to be honest they knew I was well & truly over the ton but they only caught me & clocked me once I'd slowed down a bit.
Fair Cop - but they will keep coming
15 Miles & 12 mins it took for them to catch me up....
By which time I had slowed down a bit as I was running out of fuel.
"Rather enthusiastic driving" was the comment as they sat me in the 2.5 Vectra, showed me the Vascar unit & handed me a 96mph ticket.
3 points & £60 later, to be honest they knew I was well & truly over the ton but they only caught me & clocked me once I'd slowed down a bit.
Fair Cop - but they will keep coming
cptsideways said:
If your on the A303 doing really silly speeds having a bit of a burn up as you do (not these days though).
15 Miles & 12 mins it took for them to catch me up....
By which time I had slowed down a bit as I was running out of fuel.
"Rather enthusiastic driving" was the comment as they sat me in the 2.5 Vectra, showed me the Vascar unit & handed me a 96mph ticket.
3 points & £60 later, to be honest they knew I was well & truly over the ton but they only caught me & clocked me once I'd slowed down a bit.
Fair Cop - but they will keep coming
never court me once when i was driving retire with an unbroken record
suppose it depends if they have any recording equipment in the car for your plate and speed. I've been stopped before doing well over the limit, but the Bib were originally facing the other way, with no recording equipment, and only got me cos they saw I'd had to stop for a red light about 200m later... got a talking to and no more
A few years ago I was shaking down my tarmac spec rally car on full slicks, loadsa lights la de da.
I came up to a roundabout and saw the plods hidden in the road to my left, which was a hairpin left almost as I approached it.
I thought, 'If I carry straight on they'll get my number/ chase me etc.'
So I whacked on my main beams, six spotlights (all with 150watt bulbs) and made the hairpin left, blinding poor old plod as I did so.
I shot down the lane and re appeared on the main road about 3/4 mile further on.
Plod was tearing down the main road towards me.
I shot across the road in front of him and left him for dead in the lanes.
The funny bit was, where I live is very flat, with the roads on elevated dykes taking the form of longish straights and sharp corners around the fields. As I was going on one side of a field, plod was going the other way on the other side of the field.
This went on for a bit until I snuck home.
The next week plod stopped me as he recognised the car (it was an ex works Ford)and asked me if I was the driver the previous week.
I told him No (as you do!) but I had let a guy drive it who wanted to buy it. I gave him a description of a guy with a beard, glasses etc(as far removed as possible from my appearance).
Plod confirmed that was the guy he had seen driving it and told me not to let him drive it again!!!
Funny at the time, but maybe you had to be there....
I came up to a roundabout and saw the plods hidden in the road to my left, which was a hairpin left almost as I approached it.
I thought, 'If I carry straight on they'll get my number/ chase me etc.'
So I whacked on my main beams, six spotlights (all with 150watt bulbs) and made the hairpin left, blinding poor old plod as I did so.
I shot down the lane and re appeared on the main road about 3/4 mile further on.
Plod was tearing down the main road towards me.
I shot across the road in front of him and left him for dead in the lanes.
The funny bit was, where I live is very flat, with the roads on elevated dykes taking the form of longish straights and sharp corners around the fields. As I was going on one side of a field, plod was going the other way on the other side of the field.
This went on for a bit until I snuck home.
The next week plod stopped me as he recognised the car (it was an ex works Ford)and asked me if I was the driver the previous week.
I told him No (as you do!) but I had let a guy drive it who wanted to buy it. I gave him a description of a guy with a beard, glasses etc(as far removed as possible from my appearance).
Plod confirmed that was the guy he had seen driving it and told me not to let him drive it again!!!
Funny at the time, but maybe you had to be there....
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