ANY just to make you laugh - Racing Driver speed awareness course

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Thu 19 Dec 2019 06:54
ANY just to make you laugh - Racing Driver speed awareness course - oldroverboy.

Just Hilarious.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7808023/Racing-dr...l

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Thu 19 Dec 2019 08:53
ANY just to make you laugh - Racing Driver speed awareness course - Cris_on_the_gas

It's the Daily Mail " Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story"

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Thu 19 Dec 2019 09:23
ANY just to make you laugh - Racing Driver speed awareness course - oldroverboy.

It's the Daily Mail " Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story"

Why? It is now reported in exactly the same way in other newspapers...

Was he picked on because it was an Aston Martin?

How many others were caught at that speed?

Was it actually 50 + 10% + 2mph? or or or?

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Thu 19 Dec 2019 10:36
ANY just to make you laugh - Racing Driver speed awareness course - Cris_on_the_gas

Yes would think the actual speed was in excess of 52. Criteria for Speed awareness between 10% +2mph and 10% +9mph. So maybe super good racing driver got his 5's and 6's mixed up.

Edited by Cris_on_the_gas on 19/12/2019 at 10:36

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Thu 19 Dec 2019 13:16
ANY just to make you laugh - Racing Driver speed awareness course - alan1302

Also it was an aveage speed of 52mph - wonder if he had been seen going a lot quicker and then vewry slow to try and average it out.

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Thu 19 Dec 2019 16:32
ANY just to make you laugh - Racing Driver speed awareness course - Middleman

I would like to see evidence that action was taken for travelling at 2mph above the speed limit. All police forces in England & Wales subscribe to the National Police Chiefs' Councils' guidelines that suggest that action should not be taken below (Limit +10% + 2mph). Some in fact allow a small amount more than that. I have seen a number of reports and claims of enforcement at lower speeds but have never seen any evidence of it.

More than that, the report says that the driver has been "ordered" to attend a speed awareness course. Nobody can order a driver to attend such a course. The police offer it as an alternative to either a fixed penalty or court action but the driver is free to decline the offer. Courts have no powers to order course attendance.

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Thu 19 Dec 2019 23:16
ANY just to make you laugh - Racing Driver speed awareness course - Miniman777

It's the Daily Mail " Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story"

Why? It is now reported in exactly the same way in other newspapers...

Was he picked on because it was an Aston Martin?

How many others were caught at that speed?

Was it actually 50 + 10% + 2mph? or or or?

Likely the court was attended by an agency reporter who syndicated copy to the Press Association or direct to the papers. Hence the similarity of the stories.
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Fri 20 Dec 2019 14:33
ANY just to make you laugh - Racing Driver speed awareness course - Middleman

It was probably 58 or 59mph. Many people treat the point at which enforcement begins (57mph in a 50 limit) as de facto a revised limit.

Edited by Middleman on 20/12/2019 at 14:34

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Sat 21 Dec 2019 14:14
ANY just to make you laugh - Racing Driver speed awareness course - Theophilus

The suggestion that because he has competed in the Le Mans 24hr "where cars regularly pass 200mph" he was safe to exceed the limit is in any case completely irrelevant.

He is not being penalised for driving beyond his competence to control a vehicle, but as the headline states is a "speed awareness course" - it seems he was unaware of (a) the speed he was travelling at; (b) the speed limit in force and (c) the consequence of exceeding the posted limit.

Edited by Theophilus on 21/12/2019 at 14:15

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Sat 21 Dec 2019 16:06
ANY just to make you laugh - Racing Driver speed awareness course - Bromptonaut

It was probably 58 or 59mph. Many people treat the point at which enforcement begins (57mph in a 50 limit) as de facto a revised limit.

I'd be very interested to see the NIP if it was indeed 52 in a 50 (although that would probaly be 55 on speedo). Like Middleman I think he's complaining that he was only 2 mph outside the 10% + margin. Cake and eat it territory.

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