Merseyside motorist caught doing 165mph banned

[BrilloPad]

Ermm, point of order. While this chap is clearly a major dick of some standing, he was driving on an empty motorway (watch the video) so all the hand-wringing talk of being ludicrously dangerous at that speed (in a car capable of a safe 200 mph, remember) is somewhat misplaced. Were he in Germany, he could be doing the same thing in traffic and nobody would bat an eyelid.

And another relevant question - how did he hire a car of that type with his record and being under 25...? Normally they won't even let you have a Transit without a clean history.

Thanks to elf and safety everything is ludicrously dangerous these days.

[VectraMan]

Back to the story - it said he was unemployed - where did he get his cash from to pay the fine and get the car?

Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you have spent the last 20 years working hard and have plenty of cash as a result.

And yes, nothing exceptionally dangerous about driving that fast. Motorways don't tend to have blind corners; if he'd come across some slower traffic he'd have had plenty of time to react.

[DimPrawn]

Someone doing 45 mph past a school as it kicks out is far more of a risk to human life.

It gives all the lentil munchers at the BBC something to wring their hands over.

Here's an interesting stat.

No one has ever been killed on a British motorway by a car travelling at over 200mph.

[proggy]

Someone doing 45 mph past a school as it kicks out is far more of a risk to human life.

It gives all the lentil munchers at the BBC something to wring their hands over.

Here's an interesting stat.

No one has ever been killed on a British motorway by a car travelling at over 200mph.

He broke the law, motorways in Germany were deigned with no speed limit in mind, the U.K ones were not. All speeders should be banned for life.

[Mich the Tester]

All speeders should be banned for life.

Proggy's reputation for making sweeping generalisations that miss the mark altogether remains intact.

[DodgyAgent]

He broke the law, motorways in Germany were deigned with no speed limit in mind, the U.K ones were not. All speeders should be banned for life.

A jobsworth... hang him

[DimPrawn]

He broke the law, motorways in Germany were deigned with no speed limit in mind, the U.K ones were not. All speeders should be banned for life.

But not sent to concentration camps.

[rhubarb]

motorways in Germany were deigned with no speed limit in mind, the U.K ones were not.

That's not entirely true.
I believe the M1 had no limit until that guy in the Cobra went up it at 160-odd.

[Mich the Tester]

But not sent to concentration camps.

No, just banned; we'll ban granny for driving 35 in a 30 zone; we wouldn't want her Victoria sponge cake to be mangled on the way to the village fête as she takes that tricky corner next to the church hall.

[malvolio]

He broke the law, motorways in Germany were deigned with no speed limit in mind, the U.K ones were not. All speeders should be banned for life.

So that's why the autobahn's are mostly two lane, heavily cambered and with no hard shoulders then... I always did wonder about that.