Came off them 6weeks ago! Worth a try, but not for me, much rather do it naturally!

That is prob one good thing about driving a skoda, if id been in your car they would have nicked me right then and there!

Agreed, as the top speed would have been much higher :P

Well they had me on video doing, which i got to watch! amazing bits of kit they got, do feel bad iv wasted their time dealing with stupid old me!

did you get a copy of the video

Very lucky, but as has been mentioned, far more effective at making you think about your speed than a photo/summons 2 weeks later.

Not that 140mph is really that unsafe on a motorway :sofahide:

Chris

well done for getting away with nothing, i wasnt so lucky

this is why i think the police force is a farce and a joke at best, i was clocked doing 103 at 4am on an empty M40, and i got to go to court and managed to avoid a ban, but received 5 points and a £260 fine, according to the police, 130 is classed as dangerous driving and if caught can get up to 6 months in prison, what a country we live.

the police are so consistent, good on them

Nice one, glad for you. Firstly though there is no such thing as an attractive police officer or at least not in Devon & Cornwall! Where were you caught. Must have been your lucky day, traffic officers usually dont use their disgression, speeding is speeding in their eyes and anything over 100mph is a definate court appearance, heafty fine and optional 6 month ban.

Maybe you did the right thing (lots of sorry, sorry and looking scarred usually helps) sometimes officers (me included) can tell when 'strong words of advice' will do the trick, i remember having the same after doing 70mph in a 30 zone, chasing my mate up the middle of a residential road. I was 18yrs old, got a boll@cking and it did the trick.

did you get a copy of the video

Funny, but i didnt think to ask!!!:rofl:

Nice one, glad for you. Firstly though there is no such thing as an attractive police officer or at least not in Devon & Cornwall! Where were you caught. Must have been your lucky day, traffic officers usually dont use their disgression, speeding is speeding in their eyes and anything over 100mph is a definate court appearance, heafty fine and optional 6 month ban.

Maybe you did the right thing (lots of sorry, sorry and looking scarred usually helps) sometimes officers (me included) can tell when 'strong words of advice' will do the trick, i remember having the same after doing 70mph in a 30 zone, chasing my mate up the middle of a residential road. I was 18yrs old, got a boll@cking and it did the trick.

It was bristol on the M32. One was attractive, but the other was a dike! (and not the good kind:rofl:)

Agreed, as the top speed would have been much higher :P

Ahh, but would you have been doing less than 4000 RPM???!!!!

all i could think was there goes me licence AGAIN!!

Anyway, moral of the story is dont drive like a complete tart, i CERTAINLY wont be anymore!

You are VERY lucky you got away without anything, its just a pity loosing your licence previously didn't teach you anything tho'

And how many of us have never tried to max out our cars?

And how many of us have never tried to max out our cars?

i did in my ibiza although was on a private run way of course, and 153 on the gps

I got caught at 101.98 :rolleyes: couldn't have been 99.8 when i was 17 on the motorway and recieved 6 points and a revolked licence so basicly i just had to resit my test and im now sitting on 6 points so if i get caught again im snookerd..........

how long do points stay with you for ? don't go over 100 its really not worth it :(

points count on your liscence for three years,and stay on for 4,

You are VERY lucky you got away without anything, its just a pity loosing your licence previously didn't teach you anything tho'

Well i lost it before for sitting in my car p*ssed, so i learnt not to drink if your going to drive. But now iv been pulled for speeding iv learnt not to speed........Im a slow learner! I Hope i dont have to run someone over to no thats not 'the done thing':rofl:

The 'actual' police (as opposed to cameras) seem more concerned with dangerous driving than exceeding the speed limit. That's good IMHO.

Yes you were lucky, do what most sensible people do, and learn from your mistake - I certainly did.

This is going back a few years, it was a couple of weeks after I'd picked up my 'new' (2 year old) Hyundai Accent (1.3 petrol, 86BHP) - I was going down the A1(M), driving like a tw4t, doing an indicated 105mph when the traffic allowed, and intimidating 'slow' drivers. Got pulled by a MARKED! car that had followed me for just under 2 miles. Got a stern talking to from the 2 officers, court appearance (pled guilty by post) and managed to escape with 4 points and a small fine.

Didn't drive like that again!!!

I'm one for believing the rules and penalties should be applied consistently. If the penalties are too harsh then maybe they should be changed. If someone commits an offence, then having a job which relies on a license should not be a valid defense in court (you should have learnt the other times you got caught). If I now go do the same as you did on a clear motorway, I'm almost guaranteed a ban.

Does no-one else think that if he really was doing 130 then they would have charged him? Maybe they didn't have evidence perhaps, but otherwise that is quite an extreme speed to be caught doing.

Probably yes, after all he was doing almost twice the speed limit.

But only they know why they decided not to.

No I think it's the stern word approach. There was a chap on one of those cops programs, he was driving like a plonker.

The officer quite rightly scared the **** out of him for a few minutes, you could see this guy was devastated to a point of being a fumbling buffoon.

Confident the office had made and moreover his point was understood, he let the guy go. That was a for a dangerous driving on video offense.

So I know it happens, I just hope I learn before I get stopped. Only a few weeks ago I began to out drag a car out of some road works, not really trying and only about 100 yards before the extended no cones end sign. Just as my cruise stopped accelerating, I got the shock of my life as his siren went on and then he carried on; phew...

I'd rather have a face to face, be scared witless than a flash flash sentence.

As to loosing your license for being drunk while sleeping, I know a few like you. We've possibly been there certainly some of us here, myself, out camping and soaked etc open car to get something or hide from the elements; often after a few...wrong time wrong place and that's me snookered; yet having no intention of driving, but it could look very very different.

I suspect the officers were just luckily in the mood to b@llock rather than do a load of paperwork. As for video evidence, although its the best evidence, two officers can both write statements stating what they have seen and then its up to their performance at court on the day to get a prosecution. Video evidence isnt totally necessary.

you can be prosicuted on the pocket book evidence alone, sounds crazy but its fact.

Believe me i wont be doing more than 70 ever again!!!

I give it 3 months:D

And how many of us have never tried to max out our cars?

Never, its not worth my licence

Does no-one else think that if he really was doing 130 then they would have charged him? Maybe they didn't have evidence perhaps, but otherwise that is quite an extreme speed to be caught doing.

Well as said before, i even watched the video evidence of me doing that while in the back of the car, so they could have done what ever they wanted with me, but thankfully they didnt.

I do think its abit unfair that i got away with it, and someone else doing less speed wouldnt, but i do think iv learnt my lesson from the who experience.