Driver caught doing 122mph on 30mph road as UK’s shocking speed records revealed
Almost half of police forces record speeds of more than 90mph on 30mph roads
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“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?"
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.
Any kind of residential area with a long straight road...
Unrelated, but God damn I hate Reach websites. Makes me irrationally angry every time I stumble upon one.
I was literally thinking of Mauldeth Road as an example of where you could do this but absolutely shouldn’t.
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.
Those are rookie numbers. 764 mph in a 30mph zone is where it's at nowadays.
If pedestrians don't vaporise into nothing then you're clearly not going fast enough.
The goal is to have the sun never set on you.
Shocking!
I hope they get SLAMMED for that.
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.
Did they think they could drive faster than the radar who catch them or something?
Lucky car crimes don't count
I'm still convinced 90% of British people shouldn't be allowed to drive. Don't even understand how indicators work
I wonder what were they driving? There's likely some I teresting data there!
Ford Focus with full body kit and wrap.
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!
Lifetime driving ban.
Yup. Zero excuse for going that fast anywhere on public roads.
Driving is a privilege, licenses should be revoked way more often than they are.
These people would then drive on the roads without a license and are likely to get into car chases to get away.
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