Hoon caught doing 170 in 100 zone.

Driving at 170 kph in a 100 kph zone is dangerous driving and he should be charged with dangerous driving. He must have been fully aware that he was exceeding the maximum speed limit in Australia which is 120/130 kph(?)

In the UK the punishment for doing 100mph (160 kph) is normally a minimum of a 1 year ban. At his age that would normally mean taking a new driving test prior to getting his licence back.

I do not care if he is the best driver in the world driving the best maintained car in the world, the kid on pushbike, milk delivery man, mum pushing pram across road would not expect an idiot to be coming down the road at almost twice the legal speed limit.

Regards

Brendan

It was a nice metallic red Gti-R Pulsar.
Just consider he must be an OK driver to have made it to 78, presuming he has always driven fast.
I would love to Vmax my M3 but not game.
The problem with youngies is they just think they have the experience , oldies actually have it.
Regards Philip A

Agreed, there is no place for this sort of excessive speed on the road. I get my speed fix on race tracks in a road registered car. Join a car club that is formed for this sort of thing and you will have access as well, to a safe controlled, no speed limit envioronment with emergeny medical help on location and no inocent mums, kids or old folk acting as mobile chicanes.

Safe for all and inexpensive.

(PM me if any one in SE qld wants the name of a friendly club to join that has 13 or 14 of these days a year)

Nice to see that so many have never broke the law in their lives and always drive within the speed limits. :angel:

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Originally Posted by CaverD3

Nice to see that so many have never broke the law in their lives and always drive within the speed limits. :angel:

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I am sure there is a bit of hypocrisy around but you have to admit 70k over is a lot different to 10 or twenty.
Having personally been taken out "back in the day on a motorycle" by a hoon excessivley speeding through a red light tends to change your perspective a little.

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Originally Posted by McDisco

Sounds like your sympathetic to the hoons. What would you propose? do nothing?...just let them speed and be idiots?

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how about we give them legal venues to compete at, wether it be drags, burnouts, circuit racing, etc, where they can go and play up all they want?

wait..... such venues already exist.....

BUT (isnt there ALLWAYS a but)

1: such venues arent allways local, the nearest dragstrip to where i am is over 350km away..... nearest venue i know of for hillclimbs/short circuit sprints is 700km away.....
2: in more built up areas, organised dragracing events are so heavily policed its not funny, and god help you if you're not driving a camry when you leave a dragstrip, the cops WILL strip your car to defect it off the road, if they cant find something, they'll make it up..... nobody wants to put up with that bull****, so they avoid it...... works well for keeping people away!
3: ANY organised gathering of modified car enthusiasts attracts cops like crazy, just look how many pigs get ordered to shepparton when the springnats are on, same for every road in canberra is virtually checkpointed by police when the summernats is on.

what car enthusiast is going to attend any competitve event or show if they are going to be persecuted? much better odds when it comes to getting together with the gang in an industrial area or anywhere where the cops have a slight chance at being around? better than going to something where you KNOW the police are going to be, and where you KNOW you're going to be targetted, regardless of wether youve done anything or not

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Originally Posted by CaverD3

Nice to see that so many have never broke the law in their lives and always drive within the speed limits. :angel:

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Never said that i had always been a good boy . Have owned a few cars that do over the 200kph mark . But i was on my own way out in the countryside where i could see for miles . If i ever seen anyone coming i would slow right down . I have been booked 3 times for speeding . 1st : 63 in a 60 zone. 2nd : 85 in a 80 zone. and 3rd was 94 in a 80 zone . The last one was so high because i started to get on the gas a little early to the 100kph sign. But i have never done stupid speeds in a built up area or with other traffic or people around .

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Originally Posted by Fusion

Are you serious ! Modified or stock who cares it was dangerous . The old fart is 78 years old . the reaction time of a dead elephant FFS!

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still wanna knock the "old farts"?

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Originally Posted by leeds

Driving at 170 kph in a 100 kph zone is dangerous driving and he should be charged with dangerous driving.

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Nonsense! an empty motorway in would generally have a 100-110 kph limit, and driving at 160kph isnt necessarily dangerous. (I believe in this case it may have been a more built up area which makes it more risky however)

Its all down to cirumstances.

For example, doing the speed limit can be dangerous in certain conditions. heavy traffic, poor visibilty, bad weather, poorly maintained vehicle, etc etc, but 160kph can be perfectley safe if a decent driver in sensible conditions, such as an empty motorway.

I mean for heavens sake 160kph is only 100mph.

Rgds
Pete.

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Originally Posted by 911Racer

through a red light .

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Surely thats the main issue........