Driver caught doing 122mph on 30mph road as UK’s shocking speed records revealed
One driver hit 167mph on a 70mph stretch of the M1, the RAC said
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Speed cameras were invented to check cornering speeds to optimize racing lines. Good to see them put to use for their original intention.
Really? Didn't know that! Do you know which series came up with it?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus_Gatsonides
Hence "Gatso camera"
I'm not sure it's a great idea to publish these like some sort of high score table.
We've got enough dickheads without them competing to see who can be the biggest.
Uk measures in mph?
We got stuck in a weird halfway point between imperial and metric. We are mostly metric, with a few holdovers. Road speeds being the biggest one.
Yup!
“Well now you see, we are staging a homage to William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and we're a little late for the dress rehearsal. I'm playing the eponymous hero. Romeo, not Juliet.”
"You're playing the male lead in a homage to William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and you're late for the dress rehearsal. Do you think this is a sufficient reason to travel at 48 in a 30 zone?"
Lifetime driving ban.
And 10 years in jail. That speed is taking the piss, and they need to come down hard on people who do ridiculous speeds.
They should call it a “Lifetime driving ban plan” and call the fine a one off subscription to the service lmao
Yup. Zero excuse for going that fast anywhere on public roads.
how do you even manage that? was it just a particularly poorly designed road where they slapped a lower speed limit on it? because i cannot imagine being physically able to reach that speed on most low-speed roads.
The data here is simply the maximum recorded speed, which includes a bunch of edge-cases and one-time events, and is not a mean speed value. Even a stock corolla can hit 200km/h given 1km of straight road to wind up on.
Any kind of residential area with a long straight road...
I was literally thinking of Mauldeth Road as an example of where you could do this but absolutely shouldn’t.
Unrelated, but God damn I hate Reach websites. Makes me irrationally angry every time I stumble upon one.
Shocking!
I hope they get SLAMMED for that.
Those are rookie numbers. 764 mph in a 30mph zone is where it's at nowadays.
The goal is to have the sun never set on you.
If pedestrians don't vaporise into nothing then you're clearly not going fast enough.
Did they think they could drive faster than the radar who catch them or something?
Lucky car crimes don't count
I wonder what were they driving? There's likely some I teresting data there!
Ford Focus with full body kit and wrap.
