are you sure, a guy on he GTI forum recieved a 2 year ban from footage he posted on youtube of him racing an RS4. they used that exact same method i said in my post to prosecute him. it was also on the traffic cop program where they said how they built up the case to prosecute

A conviction for speeding requires two corroborotaing "opinions" AFAIK. Two policemen will suffice - or a policeman and a Home Office approved device (as in the case of a speed cameras/radar devices) or, as in the case of the Gatso, two different points of corroboration:- the initial radar detection, the secondary "opinion" comes from comparison of the two photographs taken.

A video camera doesn't give this - but would possibly be sufficient for the lesser charge of careless driving.

We all mature driving wise as we get older. If he has a scare he should slow down. I'm 21, 22 in December and I've done dull things in a car. My 1st car was a 1.4 8v Astra Mk3. I had all of 60bhp to play with and would often rally through country lanes at speeds I'd now find hard to match in my vRS. When conditions are right we all like to go for a B road blast it's just many kids think they are invincible in a car.

Here is a recent case of death by dangerous driving. Happened this weekend. Boy only a year older than me bombed down the road at an estimated 110mph (when he crashed) with his girlfriend after drinking. He bounced off the cars at the side of the road like a pinball. Girl was killed and he was badly injured.

http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/news/Crash-driver-held-death-young-mother/article-2929840-detail/article.html

We all mature driving wise as we get older. If he has a scare he should slow down. I'm 21, 22 in December and I've done dull things in a car. My 1st car was a 1.4 8v Astra Mk3. I had all of 60bhp to play with and would often rally through country lanes at speeds I'd now find hard to match in my vRS. When conditions are right we all like to go for a B road blast it's just many kids think they are invincible in a car.

Here is a recent case of death by dangerous driving. Happened this weekend. Boy only a year older than me bombed down the road at an estimated 110mph (when he crashed) with his girlfriend after drinking. He bounced off the cars at the side of the road like a pinball. Girl was killed and he was badly injured.

http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/news/Crash-driver-held-death-young-mother/article-2929840-detail/article.html

It's never ending isn't it ey?

Another wasted life, and for what reason?

Pure ignorance, feeling of imortality and gross stupidity.

All the drum banging in the world doesn't stop them though, and it never will sadly.

We can only hope that police and road safety campaigns using shock and horror tactics might just prevent a few fatalities by making kids THINK regarding their actions.

Trouble is, some are just so thick and dense, they see it as great big joke, and simply laugh into the face of sound sensible advice and help, bit like our earlier postee mentioned regarding the bulging tyre episode.

, but Truvelo's use infra red iirc, and the flash towards you is well toned down apparently.

I wouldn't know though cus I always stick to the speed limit....cough.

Truvellos still flash, but through a Magenta filter ( this is supposed to be least offensive to eye) .

Failed last time for attempting to answer his mobile would you believe! :no:

I'm sorry?? Really? I mean REALLY?? What a d*ck! :rofl:

Truvellos still flash, but through a Magenta filter ( this is supposed to be least offensive to eye) .

They do have a strange flash that you almost think you've imagined! Definately has a red tinge to it (only been flashed by one of these at work in plod van I would like to add!)

I'm sorry?? Really? I mean REALLY?? What a d*ck! :rofl:

They do have a strange flash that you almost think you've imagined! Definately has a red tinge to it (only been flashed by one of these at work in plod van I would like to add!)

Yup! Hard to believe I know. Almost unbelievable isn't it?!

Total and utter **** he is, and I sincerley hope for the sake of other road users in his area that he does NOT pass his 2nd test in a weeks time.

He needs to grow up and come down off his pedestal before he should be let loose.

Apparently according to Mrs Ree, his mother asked him to slow down approaching road works last week, and he deliberately put his foot down. :no:

Good job he isn't my son, that's all I can say.

Yup! Hard to believe I know. Almost unbelievable isn't it?!

Total and utter **** he is, and I sincerley hope for the sake of other road users in his area that he does NOT pass his 2nd test in a weeks time.

He needs to grow up and come down off his pedestal before he should be let loose.

Apparently according to Mrs Ree, his mother asked him to slow down approaching road works last week, and he deliberately put his foot down. :no:

Good job he isn't my son, that's all I can say.

I hope he is paying for his lessons and tests. If he was my son I would be keeping him off the road for as long as possible.

Incredible, you just couldn't make it up !!

We had a similar situation near where we live with continual speeding so to stop him his Mum bought him a motorbike. Within a fortnight the teenager was dead and the road now has speed bumps.

What a tragedy. I hate speedbumps.

FACT

The single most common cause of death for girls aged 14-18yrs in the uk is to die in a Road Traffic Collision when in a car with a male aged between 18-25yrs old!

And my little sister wonders why i ban her from going out with boys older than her!!!

FACT

The single most common cause of death for girls aged 14-18yrs in the uk is to die in a Road Traffic Collision when in a car with a male aged between 18-25yrs old!

And my little sister wonders why i ban her from going out with boys older than her!!!

Yet another two.

http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/blackpoolnews/Teenage-girls-killed-in-crash.6643089.jp

BTW Sonner. Since when have brothers given a jot about their sisters and what they do?

A generous amount of paint stripper on his car should put his world back into perspective.

A generous amount of paint stripper on his car should put his world back into perspective.

I doubt he'd connect the events, sadly. A driving ban would do better.

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I doubt he'd connect the events, sadly. A driving ban would do better.

Meanwhile, corsa chavlad has seemingly vanished.

Haven'rt seen or heard him for a fortnight now.

I almost feel cheated. :wonder:

Meanwhile, corsa chavlad has seemingly vanished.

Haven'rt seen or heard him for a fortnight now.

I almost feel cheated. :wonder:

Was he cremated or buried?

Was he cremated or buried?

Who knows? Who cares?

Harsh, but true I'm afraid.

Stil no sign of him.

Nothing in the local rag, so I can only assume he's blown his 3 cylinder engine up or someone else has reported him, and the rozzers have had a word with him p'raps?

All in all, the local wannabe rally and racing drivers have been unusually quiet around here since the cold weather moved in. Most odd.

All in all, the local wannabe rally and racing drivers have been unusually quiet around here since the cold weather moved in. Most odd.

It's the opposite round here. The hill I live on is pretty icy at the moment with one or 2 wide junctions. Local chavs have been wheel spinning up the hill all this week. Everytime I hear a screech I'm waiting for the bang.

All in all, the local wannabe rally and racing drivers have been unusually quiet around here since the cold weather moved in. Most odd.

All in a ditch?

All in a ditch?

Sadly not.

He's back, ragging his 65 bhp Corsa around our streets again tonight.

Must have had an elastic band re-build.

Tomorrow night, I shall be mainly trying to obtain his registration number.

That is quite staggeringly horrendous.

You try to possibly save his life in essence, and you get a load of abuse!!

My sis in laws son is about to take his test again next week.

Failed last time for attempting to answer his mobile would you believe! :no:

Also not giving way.

He's one cocky big headed little get, always has been, and I have predicted to Mrs Ree that he'll wrap his first car up within 2 months of ownership.

I sincerley hope I'm wrong for his mothers sake, but it's got 'accident waiting to happen' written all over it.

Good god almighty. :no:

I almost regret saying this all those months ago.

Why?

Beacuase my prediction was absolutely spot on, and according to his deeply upset mother, "he was lucky to get out alive" after wrapping his newly aquired Pug 306 around a sign post exiting the M6 whilst driving too fast.

It was all so predicrtable though most sadly.

Hasn't stopped him going out and buying another one though mind, and oh yes, predictably it's "taught himself a lesson", apparently, so he says. :|

We'll wait and see on that one.

His new improved insurance premium should teach him a lesson pretty quickly.

Where I was at christmas, there were morons in corsa and polo pulling on the handbrake to intentionally kick out the rear end.

This however was done on a public road that isn't exactly quiet, was very icy and with pedestrians on the path, one of whom screamed as the car came towards them out of control (and missed).

It does seem that the new type of younger driver is a few more marbles short in the sensible department than many older drivers when they were young.

Not saying this kid did it on purpose, but publicly putting the car out of control in dangerous conditions is asking for it.

Anyway at least he walked out, I can vouch for the side impact protection on a 306, so he was lucky not to be in a corsa etc.

It does seem that the new type of younger driver is a few more marbles short in the sensible department than many older drivers when they were young.

Not saying this kid did it on purpose, but publicly putting the car out of control in dangerous conditions is asking for it.

My wife has a theory on this. For the last 20 years kids have been so mollycoddled and health and safety being what it is, we now have a generation of little darlings who can't evaluate risk on their own. They reach adulthood with no sense of danger, whereas previously Darwinism weeded some of the complete idiots out before they got their hands on a driving licence.

My wife has a theory on this. For the last 20 years kids have been so mollycoddled and health and safety being what it is, we now have a generation of little darlings who can't evaluate risk on their own. They reach adulthood with no sense of danger, whereas previously Darwinism weeded some of the complete idiots out before they got their hands on a driving licence.

I think your wife has a good point there

I do admit I was a bit chavvy in my youth (drove an MG Maestro EFI), but after I was a passenger in a car accident that was a fatal, I soon calmed down, sold the Maestro (I knew I would probably wrap it round a tree, plus I was fed up with the rust) and ended up in a Fiesta Festival Mk2..Insurance went down with a thump too.

My wife has a theory on this. For the last 20 years kids have been so mollycoddled and health and safety being what it is, we now have a generation of little darlings who can't evaluate risk on their own. They reach adulthood with no sense of danger, whereas previously Darwinism weeded some of the complete idiots out before they got their hands on a driving licence.

Sounds like my kind of thinking that.

We have the same problem round where I am on, My street is off a dual carriagway (30MPH speed limit) and on that stretch there is a couple of roundabouts, you usually hear the Impreza's bombing down at the weekend at stupid o'clock, screaming round the roundabout and back down the other side of the carriageway, we occasionally get the local lad in his corsa with a dent in one side showboating as he comes into the street, my house is near to a corner and is always fun reversing off the drive when said local lad bombs round the corner without stopping (the corner is a junction where you can turn left or right and people just bomb round it, it's quite funny as you give him the evils when your cleaning the car and he bombs round. When we had the snow and ice we had him and another boy in a off roader trying to drift round the corner, only for him to belt the kerb and damage his alloy wheels.