Article: Man caught at 234km/h

A 33-year-old man has been arrested for driving at a shocking 234km/h on the R21 near Nellmapuis on Sunday, Gauteng traffic police said.

Busaphi Nxumalo spokeswoman for the traffic police said the man was arrested just before 11am on the offramp outside Pretoria driving a motorbike.
 
It is no use in just saying that a man had driven a vehicle at that speed. They should qualify his offense by saying ... for example ... it was in a residential area with lots of children running around ... then a criminal case could be made against this man.

I have driven a car at over 200 ... but that was on a deserted road in the middle of nowhere without another car in sight. Yet this man is about to be incarcerated for something many other people have also done before.
 
Picard said:
It is no use in just saying that a man had driven a vehicle at that speed. They should qualify his offense by saying ... for example ... it was in a residential area with lots of children running around ... then a criminal case could be made against this man.

I have driven a car at over 200 ... but that was on a deserted road in the middle of nowhere without another car in sight. Yet this man is about to be incarcerated for something many other people have also done before.
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You would have been locked up too if they caught you. It's not only putting other peoples lives at risk but also your own as well as all the money that must go to paramedics, rescue teams, etc when something goes wrong.

If people want to race around go to a track! That's what they are designed for.
 
Picard said:
They should qualify his offense by saying ... for example ... it was in a residential area with lots of children running around ... then a criminal case could be made against this man.
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Something like this maybe?

rpm said:
a man was arrested just before 11am on the offramp outside Pretoria driving a motorbike.
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At almost double the maximum allowed speed on ANY road, I am perfectly happy with him being incarcerated.

How can you justify this stupidity by saying it is ok because many other people have done the same?

There are places to go to legally drive fast. A public road is not the right place.
 
scudsucker said:
There are places to go to legally drive fast. A public road is not the right place.
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The roads and cars are made to handle high speeds but idiots in old wrecks make the roads unsafe.

Top speed never interested me but I always liked a decent average and on one trip (from Bulawayo to Kitwe) I was stopped at a Rhodesian army roadblock outside ****ie where the guys advised me that I had averaged 107mph from their check point just outside Bulawayo.

EDIT.
I can't believe the stupid f***ing censor.
It won't let me use the name of the town which is/was a major coal mining area and also the home of a serious game reserve - W.a.n.k.i.e
 
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scudsucker said:
Hwange now... Passes the censor.
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Thanks but I refuse to use it.
I was born in Northern Rhodesia and always put that as my place of birth in any official form that I fill in.
It resulted in a passport being issued with my country of birth recorded as Northern Zimbabwe.
 
scudsucker said:
At almost double the maximum allowed speed on ANY road, I am perfectly happy with him being incarcerated.

How can you justify this stupidity by saying it is ok because many other people have done the same?

There are places to go to legally drive fast. A public road is not the right place.
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Driving fast in a straight line is relatively safe, assuming that there is nobody nearby to injure or collide with. As said above, the problem with speed is not modern, well maintained vehicles, but older and less sturdy ones who 'spoil' it for everyone else.

That said, the law must be applied equally to everyone, and by that rule, he should be fined ( I think jail is excessive considering that nobody was hurt or injured, and he did it at an off peak time. Perhaps having his licence taken away for a month or two. )
 
bullzeye.za said:
Driving fast in a straight line is relatively safe, assuming that there is nobody nearby to injure or collide with. As said above, the problem with speed is not modern, well maintained vehicles, but older and less sturdy ones who 'spoil' it for everyone else.

That said, the law must be applied equally to everyone, and by that rule, he should be fined ( I think jail is excessive considering that nobody was hurt or injured, and he did it at an off peak time. Perhaps having his licence taken away for a month or two. )
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That is crap its not only the car that needs to be looked at. 99% of drivers on the road are not trained to be doing those speeds. Your reflexes needs to be tip top that is the reason why racing drivers are so fit.
 
bullzeye.za said:
Driving fast in a straight line is relatively safe, assuming that there is nobody nearby to injure or collide with. As said above, the problem with speed is not modern, well maintained vehicles, but older and less sturdy ones who 'spoil' it for everyone else.

That said, the law must be applied equally to everyone, and by that rule, he should be fined ( I think jail is excessive considering that nobody was hurt or injured, and he did it at an off peak time. Perhaps having his licence taken away for a month or two. )
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You are not the only person on the road. There are others driving to. Doesn't matter if you can drive perfectly fine at 240km/h. Someone else might suddenly swerve in front of you, then lets see if your reflexes can pull emergency manoeuvres at 240km/h. :rolleyes:
 
bullzeye.za said:
the problem with speed is not modern, well maintained vehicles, but older and less sturdy ones who 'spoil' it for everyone else.
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Dunno hey, I've seen many youtube clips of modern expensive 'designed for speed' cars take a crash (most are at slow speed even). Most accidents are caused by poor driving or bad road conditions... lets see how well your lambo handles hitting a pothole at 200KM/h...
 
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