Lorry pushing car video

[Paddy]

Nick is very good at picking up on alternative interpertations of the wording of the law, in this case he has made a plausable argument and the Magistrate bought it. Personally I think the Magistrate got it wrong. In front of a different magistrate he may not have got away with it.

Had they done him for not being in full control of the vehicle or driving without due care and attention they may have got a different result.

Although it is Magistrates Court; it may not necessarily been magistrates that Hear the case. When I contested my speeding offence ( 31mph on a dual carriageway with a 30mph limit) the magistrate walked out and in walked a Deputy District Judge.

[Spacecadet]

Where was that then?

Mega-city One

[Paddy]

Where was that then?

here

In 2006, it took 18 months to get to Court, two barristers and two police whiteness verses Paddy. I should have won the case but in summing up the DD Judge said “We can’t have every Tom, Dick and Harry contesting speeding fines in Court otherwise the Courts will be clogged up”

[Flubster]

I should have won the case

Why? Were you driving at or under the limit then?

[Paddy]

Why? Were you driving at or under the limit then?

I was actually doing 30mph, the case got down to and argument of was it 30 or 31mph. The position of my front tyre was considered by the Judge to be (something like) 3cm different from what was actually in the photograph. Had I enlarged the image and taken it to court it would have shown the difference, ie 30mph position. As it was the Judge took advantage and interpreted the position to be about 3cm ahead than what it really was thus making my speed 31mph.

[threaded]

Indeed sir, you are correct if the road tanker is empty, which I assume you deduced before you wrote your post (by using your infamous Threaded Time Machine™ to actually witness the driver picking up the empty tanker payload during the start of his shift) rather than obfuscate the rest of the board with verbal misdirects.

Threaded, as always, I embrace your intellectual colossus and the fact that you are the only person to respond to the derivative of the Navier–Stokes equation is an honour and also a timely reminder of how technically dehydrated the rest of the board are, so you and I can once again relish in our Heaviside step function smugness.

It's one of the skills I offer my clients.

Being a little bored, I've also worked out how fast they were going.

[al_cam]

Just spotted this update to this story.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/261848...98317#35998317

It plays you an advert before showing the article, so be patient.

[NickFitz]

Just spotted this update to this story.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/261848...98317#35998317

It plays you an advert before showing the article, so be patient.

Or you could look at the GMTV interview they use, thereby avoiding the annoying American newsreaders and advert

[Sockpuppet]

Ahem....my area of expertise I believe

or the change in handling characteristics and/or acceleration of his vehicle?

Its going in a straight line. Its probably got best part a 500bhp engine with 1000nm of torque. Safe to say its handling wouldn't have been affected.

Actually, if look closely, the tanker was totally empty, so there's an awful lot less momentum to conserve than you might suppose.

Correct.

Indeed sir, you are correct if the road tanker is empty, which I assume you deduced before you wrote your post (by using your infamous Threaded Time Machine™ to actually witness the driver picking up the empty tanker payload during the start of his shift) rather than obfuscate the rest of the board with verbal misdirects.

Threaded, as always, I embrace your intellectual colossus and the fact that you are the only person to respond to the derivative of the Navier–Stokes equation is an honour and also a timely reminder of how technically dehydrated the rest of the board are, so you and I can once again relish in our Heaviside step function smugness.

Or just look at the tag axles which are up as the tanker is running without a load Also there are no hazchem plates on the vehicle which indicated its probably been purged and cleaned even if not carrying harmful goods they usuallyc arry a "LOW HAZARD" plaque on tankers

[wobbegong]

Its going in a straight line. Its probably got best part a 500bhp engine with 1000nm of torque. Safe to say its handling wouldn't have been affected.

True, but I doubt he hit the Clio exactly dead on, and supposing the fact that there may well have been different tyre makes on the front to the back. A difference in drag coefficient as the tyres abraded must've caused some vibration if not noise and/or smell, if not, surely the oscillation of the car due to road surface and wind variations.