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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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.
Possibly just after a speed limit change?
Yes, the road has changed from 45 to 30, so naturally we'll go...checks notes...120.
Yeah not saying it was an appropriate speed for the previous area 😅 (except if the road was closed and competing in a wrc rally or something) just maybe explains how it was physically possible.
There's a road near me that clearly should be a 50 but they can't be arsed so they've just slapped to 30 limit on it. It's long straight has no hills has two lanes and a central reservation, it's a perfectly safe road.
But at 150 mph that road would be a death sentence, because it has a very very slight curvature to it, so slight that you barely even notice that you are going around the corner your brain just automatically has you turn the steering wheel ever so slightly. At 150 though the motion would probably destabilize the car.