Driver caught doing 122mph on 30mph road as UK’s shocking speed records revealed
Driver caught doing 122mph on 30mph road as UK’s shocking speed records revealed
The highest recorded speed on 30mph roads included in the analysis was 122mph
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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?"
Lifetime driving ban.
And 10 years in jail. That speed is taking the piss, and they need to come down hard on people who do ridiculous speeds.
Yup. Zero excuse for going that fast anywhere on public roads.
They should call it a “Lifetime driving ban plan” and call the fine a one off subscription to the service lmao
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 still convinced 90% of British people shouldn't be allowed to drive. Don't even understand how indicators work
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.
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...
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.
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.
Shocking!
I hope they get SLAMMED for that.
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.
Did they think they could drive faster than the radar who catch them or something?
Lucky car crimes don't count
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!
I wonder what were they driving? There's likely some I teresting data there!
Ford Focus with full body kit and wrap.