Article: Man caught at 234km/h

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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he disregarded a law that was enforced for a reason. the speed limit wasn't 120 during the day, 200 in the evenings, it's 120 all of the time. when he chose to speed he knowingly chose to ignore the law and endanger people.

edit: i speed too, as i have speedign fines to prove it, but how can you not know that you are doing 200? i can understand doing 71 in a 60 zone
 
"He was travelling with his girlfriend in a blue Kawasaki ZX-19...
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ZX-19 WTF is that?? Surly they mean ZX-9, pretty old bike was in production from 1994 till 2003
 
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nightjar said:
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.
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Oh dear. A "When-we".

Thought you lot where extinct by now
 
Mach III said:
100% safe. Should not be charged with anything in my opinion.
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I drive that stretch of the road every day and I also happen to live next to that stretch of the R21 so I get to see and hear a lot of the "accidents".
It seems that a lot of the people heading for Tappet Valley (East Rand) in the evening have boy racer fever.
If you drive 120 in the left lane you still have idiots who come flying up your rear.

This idiot did it on a Sunday morning and there is definitely other traffic on the road at 11AM so he should get locked away IMO.
All it takes to wipe out an innocent family is a blow out, someone who does't spot you approaching at 200+km/h in their rear view mirror or an animal running across the road.
The cold, hard truth is that the laws of physics still triumphs ABS, EBD, ESP, etc.

If the e-tolling ever gets pushed through I hope they implement average speed trapping.
 
Neck_Monster said:
he disregarded a law that was enforced for a reason. the speed limit wasn't 120 during the day, 200 in the evenings, it's 120 all of the time. when he chose to speed he knowingly chose to ignore the law and endanger people.
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+1

There are many people who own very fast and capable cars. When I need to drive above traffic legal limits, I take my car to Tarlton race course.
 
dlk001 said:
+1

There are many people who own very fast and capable cars. When I need to drive above traffic legal limits, I take my car to Tarlton race course.
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My sentiments exactly. If you can afford a fast sporty car, you can afford to take it to the track.
 
nightjar said:
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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I saw a C32 AMG get torn into pieces after the (sober) driver lost control all by himself at high speed. And by pieces I mean pieces. He killed himself and his 2 passengers.

Road cars are not designed for high speed, I'm sorry. They can go fast but they cannot cope when things go wrong. If a racing car crashes at high speed the driver has a good chance of walking away. When a road car crashes at high speed the occupants will be lucky to survive, let alone leave the scene under their own power.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
My sentiments exactly. If you can afford a fast sporty car, you can afford to take it to the track.
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Absolutely.

At a race course, you can control many conditions upfront and be aware of risks.

On a public road (especially in SA), you are not in control of most hazards (human and road conditions).

Driving within legal limits gives you time to respond adequately to unforeseeable hazards, reduce the risk and consequences.
 
nightjar said:
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.
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I love this! I was born in Leicester in England but only 1 person in 100 can spell it. Going into Angola from Namibia it became LUX (like the soap) since that was what the foreign gentleman translated Leicester UK as. Why do they need to know such irrelevant details?
 
Slootvreter said:
Sweet jesus look at everyone waving their moral flags now! :rolleyes:
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To be honest I do not speed. I cruise at 100 - 110km/h on the freeway, only exceeding the limit to overtake. And driving on heavily policed suburban roads (I pass through 3 speed cameras twice a day) ensures that I have gotten used to obeying speed limits.

Strange as it may seem, some of us do actually drive responsibly.
 
In Australia hardly anyone exceeds the speed limit, even in the outback where you might not see another car for hours. Leaving Alice Springs a car left about 2 mins ahead of us. I saw him in the distance all the way to Darwin, we had both been doing 100km/hr all the way
 
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