http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3683441.stm

 

In the current climate, I'd think he's looking at a stretch at Her Majesty's pleasure. 150 mph is bad enough - but to be caught doing that whilst on the phone.........!! FFS!

 

they go so over the top though, bet she's never driven anything faster than her diesel clio, now driving something like that at 150mph would be dangerous (though where she gets shooting a shotgun in a crowded steet from i don't know) but a big german saloon is designed to drive at those speeds and having driven a M5 for a while know he could probably have take his hands off the wheel and if it was quiet been on the phone (probably a built in hands free thing but maybe not, the article doesn't say) without causing any danger to others. I think we should sponsor some of these pen pushers to get behind the wheel of a big merc or beemer and then follow them covertly with a speed gun, bet they realise it's quiet and comfortable and more than capable of being safe at three figures, might change their minds and/or we could do them and see how they like it

 

P.S. it was the crail thrash maxpower weekend so bound to be more police out than usual, so he should have known better, explains the reason there were so many caught as well.

 

I tend to agree to some extent - it's not quite like driving up the pavement past a school at 150 mph and splatting peds (have you ever played Carmageddon?)! Over 130mph on the UK roads and you are risking your liberty; if you can't do the time you shouldn't do the crime! Granted that possibly the driver wasn't aware such a heinous crime was being committed - its probably only common knowledge amoung petrolheads that speeding is seen by the authorities as more anti-social than burglary, for example

 

:insertexpletivehere: riiiiiight..... I guess that the Northern Territories and deristricted autobahns must be strewn with the carnage of all the cars that are uncontrollable above 70mph

As for the comparison with a loaded shotgun on the streets I would love them to explain why this analogy can be allowed to stand when in the very recent past a good friend of mine phoned the police to report a man brandishing a samurai sword outside his house and was told they would not attend as he said he wouldn't be able to identify the culprit's face. Guess motorists are just too easy prey for improving ones crime statistics...

Tif (hacked off with the country going to the dogs (IMO))

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tifosi Red

 

Quote at end of article!

"Last year car dealer Jason McAllister was jailed for five months after he drove his BMW at more than 156mph on the A90 between Aberdeen and Dundee. "

Think a sentence could be handed down!

 

I think he was driving without insurance too.

 

Wish they'd get their facts straight, on the article about the 156mph man linked from the link at the top of this thread is says he was driving whilst disqualified.. and then on another article, without insurance.

Ho Hum. Also mentions that he was doing 120 in a 40 at one point