M6 motorway speeds?
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From: bod on 30 Jun 2010 07:32 Mike P wrote: > On 30 June, 12:18, Adrian <toomany2...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> bod <bodro...(a)tiscali.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were >> saying: >> >>>> I wouldn't have been dim enough to do an illegal undertake in front of >>>> a police car, whatever I did. >>>> I'd have hoped that plod might have pulled him over ... >>> It was an unmarked car in heavy traffic and several cars back. >>> Are you Superman, with Xray vision? >> I find it _very_ difficult to believe that TrafPlod in an unmarked would >> stop YOU in that situation, unless he believed that your manouvre was so >> badly executed as to increase the danger. > > I got stopped by an unmarked once. I overtook them in a 2CV. > > I wasn't actually breaking the limit, but they told me I looked like I > was "about to roll over and should slow down..." > > Mike P > > Hmm, is it possible to speed in a 2CV? :) Bod
From: Mike P on 30 Jun 2010 07:35 On 30 June, 12:32, bod <bodro...(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > Mike P wrote: > > On 30 June, 12:18, Adrian <toomany2...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> bod <bodro...(a)tiscali.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were > >> saying: > > >>>> I wouldn't have been dim enough to do an illegal undertake in front of > >>>> a police car, whatever I did. > >>>> I'd have hoped that plod might have pulled him over ... > >>> It was an unmarked car in heavy traffic and several cars back. > >>> Are you Superman, with Xray vision? > >> I find it _very_ difficult to believe that TrafPlod in an unmarked would > >> stop YOU in that situation, unless he believed that your manouvre was so > >> badly executed as to increase the danger. > > > I got stopped by an unmarked once. I overtook them in a 2CV. > > > I wasn't actually breaking the limit, but they told me I looked like I > > was "about to roll over and should slow down..." > > > Mike P > Hmm, is it possible to speed in a 2CV? :) I've driven a totally standard 2CV from Rawtenstall to Marlow in 2h45mins. Mike P
From: Adrian on 30 Jun 2010 07:39 Mike P <mikewpearson1(a)gmail.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: > You can, if you are , say , on a motorway or a 3-lane A-road (like the > A4 going into London) where all three lanes are moving at similar, but > slow speeds. On the one hand, HC163 On the other hand, HC160, HC168, HC169.
From: Adrian on 30 Jun 2010 07:40 bod <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: >> I got stopped by an unmarked once. I overtook them in a 2CV. >> >> I wasn't actually breaking the limit, but they told me I looked like I >> was "about to roll over and should slow down..." > Hmm, is it possible to speed in a 2CV? :) Oh, yes...
From: Ret. on 30 Jun 2010 07:51
Adrian wrote: > bod <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they > were saying: > >> Doesn't detract from the fact, that you did get done and Kev hasn't. > > Which doesn't detract from the fact that that's got nothing to do with > safe use of speed appropriate for the conditions. So you accept that speed in itself has nothing to do with road safety? Then how can you claim that I am driving dangerously (when I am patently not). -- Kev |