Speed check question

 

Just got a speeding offence in the post thinking it was the one in question in this topic. Read more clearly and found out it was date 9th April while going up the Nass road too fast to meet Richie and Mick at the Red Cow hotel to go up north for the M Power Meet! 4 points within 2 weeks! No points on my licence till now! I am distraught. At this rate I will have to sell my car.

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That's just nasty.  You'll have to start listening to that beepy noise your car was making in Mondello!!!

Lads. I dont suppose any of you saw the three series in Dundalk ???????????????????? Speed Kills.The clampdown is part of a change of life / habit thing. Get used to it. Remember the cops are doing what they get paid for. Thats all.

kbannon wrote: Does that mean that if I venture 1kmph over the limit and your car will blow up? IMO your large statement should say that "Inappropriate Speed Kills" as driving within the speed limit can still kill someone (e.g. outside a school)

 

Yes you are right.But the guy that started the thread was more than 1 km over the limit. Try telling a mother or a father that you just performed an id on their child even if he was 21 ! Now do this twice in a six week period and see how it feels. There is a big difference between 5km over a limit and 20 km over the limit. I'm getting fed up looking at the carnage...... you should try it.

Personally, I don't trust the cops in this country, and if they can prosecute successfully without having to show proof of the speed you were doing, and that it was your car doing it, then I am very worried.  What's to stop them pulling people over at random, saying you were over the limit, and force you to fork out a fine to line the government coffers?  Scam.....

 

Worth a read:

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/ZZA12Y2002S21.html

As usual, it's written in fancy-pancy legal speak, but I think it more or less says that evidence has to be provided, which proves (insofarheretohitherandthither) the speed etc.  But, having read the page a few times, I'm still not 100% clear!! 

Homer Simpson voice: "Stupid legal jargon"

i do think that the car being an m5 is a lot to do with it!! about 5 years ago i had a Toyota supra twin turbo, savage machine !! and one day cops behind me and sirens on so i pulled in wondering what i did!! and the guard approached me ask for my licence and insurance and then asked me was my car a 2litre or a 3litre??? what says i confused! say no more!!

from the front your m5 looks different than the regular e39 m5

also on top gear james may tested the new bentley in dubai and the cops closed a very long road so he could test the 200mph top speed, but he only went to 180mph... very quickly mind you!!!