ice_white

On Christmas Day, I was driving along the A12, which was completely empty - hadn't seen another car for a couple of miles and none up ahead, so decided to floor it.

Just as I was reaching 120, noticed a ploice car up ahead which was parked sideways on a layby. Let off the gas and braked down to 90 and passed it.

I was expecting the lights to go on and for it to pull me over, but it didn't! Does this mean i got away with it???

Help appreciated,

Mark.

andrewdelvard

I'm not trying to be smart but was there anyone in the car???

ice_white

The thought had crossed my mind, but I couldn't see if there was or not. The way it was parked was a little odd (sideways) so it may have just been parked there to slow people down. If it was, it worked!

andrewdelvard

Saw the exact same thing on Christmas day on the M6. Car was parked sideways in clear view etc,,etc....But it was empty.
All show no go!

ice_white

I hope it was the same thing then. Either that or the copper was having a kip in the back seat!!

So, hopefuly, I've been a very lucky boy!

Bobby Peru

Was coming back from London on the M40, came round a bend near Oxford, as I come round notice there has been an accident on the side of the motorway, Police start running into the motorway and gesturing at me furiously.......I was doing 152mph!!! (there were no other cars on motorway!).

[Edited by Bobby Peru - 12/30/2002 9:42:19 AM]

beanchimp

I got stopped on the m40 for speeding a few years ago

I was told that I might be 'okay' driving at the speed I was doing, but he said a very valid thing to me

It isnt big or clever to speed, and next time I do speed, if I happen to have a blow out or am going to crash, could I please head towards the central reservation, as it makes there job much easier picking my body parts up, and they then stand a chance of identifying me

And that I might not 'give a t*ss' if I crash, but to think about someone else I might happen to plough into, or who might crash into my wreckage

Scaremongering yes, but he had a valid point

and it was an empty motorway I was on when I got caught

it slowed me down on the motorway to a more acceptable speed

Steve

mutant_matt

Are you sure it wasn't one of those cardboard cut outs they sometimes use just to slow people down?

Matt

Bobby Peru

Let's not turn this into a "moral" or "speeding is not good" thread.

beanchimp

i dont think we should be boasting about how fast we be doing on the motorways either

unless we are talking about the autobahns in Germany in the unrestricted zones

ice_white

Oh yes, I forgot to mention I was in Germany for xmas!

Richard Askew

Germany eh?? how about 173mph off GPS in a derestricted RS4

steve McCulloch

You've got away with it by the sound of it..

Its usually fairly obvious if its a mobile unit.. The police tend to outsource it now to white vans with Mobile camera unit signs all over them...

If it as a normal traffic car they would have had to do you with a laser gun and then come after you.. Normal police cars dont have the equipment to take speeds/license plate details... these are done by special units

If you'd actually overtaken an unmarked police car at 120mph and realised this straight away that may have been different.. though you'd have probably got away with it as how fast would they have been able to prove you were doing as they would not have followed you... perse..

ice_white

Cheers Steve, you've put my mind at rest!!!

I'll be a good boy from now on!!!

Mark.

astraboy

[Gordon Gekko]
Speeding is good. Speeding works.
[/Gordon Gekko}

astraboy.

PKB

Don't forget the feds montior this message board and I wouldn't be surprised if one day they start tracking what is said and using it as evidence, as they don't have any other important crimes to solve e.g. murders etc!!!!

Leslie

Beanchimp,

What you said it very good sense, and it is easy to understand what the Copper was saying at the time. Bob Peru must be an absolute maniac and certainly very selfish to take the risk of those sorts of speeds on the public highway, clear road or not. It certainly impresses nobody to swank about it to the rest of us. And before you start smoking Bob Peru, I am well used to very much higher speeds than that, but never on a public road!

Les

yoza

Speed kills.......

Its the same as every other drug,use it to excess and itll kill you,used in moderation you should be OK....

SiPie

Yoza

Makes your teeth rot pretty badly though

yoza

Yep ask Sean Macgowan from the Pogues