Someone got caught doing 250+ in northern Victoria!! someone else got caught doing180

[EDManual]

thats 180 in a 60 zone! ANyone found any news on this? apparently the 250 k bloke was arrested.

[LUXO_8]

Originally Posted by EDManual

apparently the 250 k bloke was arrested.

as you'd expect....

there are some morons out there arent there

[347_XR8]

Saw a news flash bout it. Parrently it was a guy from Elthem and it was North Victoria or North Melbourne, i can't remember.

[apolloxbgt]

Northen vic I heard them say.

[revcore]

Man.... Talk about crazy. That guy knew how to lose his license in style.
I'm glad I wasn't out driving on the same stretch of road he was on.

[TEKILA]

the guy who was doing 180 in a 60 zone was from eltham i recall.......on station street in box hill if any of you know the area.
not sure of the other guy doin 250 tho

i live in eltham and there was a bloke who lived 3 doors up from me was doin 120 in a 60 zone through elthams main rd. police chased him for about 5 minutes until he decided to outsmart the cops and detour his way back home. police questioned a man who witnessed the chase and eventually he was caught.
goes to show you cant outsmart the cops.

.......there sure are sum d!ckeads in this world

[Full Noise]

Originally Posted by AU_bullet

goes to show you cant outsmart the cops.

You've got that right. :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:



Cheers, Danny

[ARYAN]

On freeways , motorways whatever they are called people should be allowed to go faster than the 100 km limit..it just does not work..everybody speeds..in germany on autobahn you can go as fast as your car goes..so are germans idiots to allow this??
I have done 220 km in Germany and believe me it was safer than driving in crowded traffic..(by the way I come from Europe)

[buickman]

Lucky their both caught with no deaths or injuries. I just hope they learn their lessons at of this.As others have said there are race tracks were you are less likely to hit a tree, pole or another car with family's. At those speeds there is now way they would be able to control the car if somthing happened.

[Professor Farnsworth]

Look, the point is - as many people have said, time and place. Public roads = place for people to commute to and from their destination at the speed limit in relative safety, NOT an avenue for land speed records. If you want to go fast, do it on the track, where the only person you can really hurt is yourself, providing no one else is in your car or on the track near you.

I HATE these jumped up pricks that think they can outdrive anyone they come across simply because they can push a pedal in a straight line. It's amazing how many straight line speeders you can pass while you're still doing the limit, simply because they have no clue how to corner, and slow down like it's the most perplexing challenge they've ever had. Then, as soon as it's straight again, boom. Speeding on public roads, primarilly around others = selfish bullИИИИ that unfortunately, will never stop.

Why ? Because everyone thinks 'it won't happen to me'. Then when it does, they regret it for the rest of their lives. My, and most other people on this forum's car is capable of 200km/h, more if reprogrammed, but you have to use something called common sense, which sadly, isn't so common any more.

Hope they get their cars auctioned like that Sydney case mentioned here. Suck ИИИИ fellas, learn the ИИИИing lesson.

[Keepleft]

Originally Posted by ARYAN

On freeways , motorways whatever they are called people should be allowed to go faster than the 100 km limit..it just does not work..everybody speeds..in germany on autobahn you can go as fast as your car goes..so are germans idiots to allow this??
I have done 220 km in Germany and believe me it was safer than driving in crowded traffic..(by the way I come from Europe)

The problem in Australia, and in particular my home state of NSW, are that our road design guidelines in relation to freeway category roads allow for dedicated median U-Turn access points - intended for emergency use only. We DON'T use these in EU.

The problem is people generally (and Caltex employees & customers, per F3) use these daily as intersections, often cutting-in front of closing traffic which then impacts OR has to reduce speed suddenly to avoid same. On that basis it would be negligent to raise the 110km/h speed limit UNTIL these bays are removed AND we have mandatory, continouous median barrier to prevent crossover crashes.

I am working at closing three such bays on the F3 here in NSW near the Caltext twin service stations, numbers 40, 41 and 42.

[Full Noise]

Originally Posted by Keepleft

I am working at closing three such bays on the F3 here in NSW near the Caltex twin service stations, numbers 40, 41 and 42.

Be sure to let us know what eventuates with this. This is an area that requires more police enforcement.

Cheers, Danny

[kyro_02]

on skynews foxtel they have said the guy doin 250km/h for 100k's has been arrested and charged, and will face court tomorrow or something.. the other guy doing 181km/h was also caught

[Ultimate]

wow thats like fast. What car was he in

[nobbystang]

here's the link to the story in the Herald Sun of the guy doing 250kmh, police chased for 109 kms, talk about persistent, am glad to see they didn't call it off and actually caught this guy. Is also a mention of the other guy doing 180kmh.

http://heraldsun.news.com.au/common/...5E1702,00.html

[Ultimate]

Well doing 180 was driving a xr8. Do people think its bad rep for our v8 drivers having that power. Knowing stuff like this government will want limits on v8 next

[Aeron]

Originally Posted by Ultimate

Well doing 180 was driving a xr8. Do people think its bad rep for our v8 drivers having that power. Knowing stuff like this government will want limits on v8 next

I dont think it makes V8's look bad. I had a N/A VL Commodore 5 speed that could do 200Km/h and its a 6cylinder ИИИИbox

[LTDHO]

Put them both in jail.
Confiscate the cars and auction them of with money going to TAC.
Tools like this give enthusiasts a bad name.
Just proves that power to weight has nothing to do with it!

[nobbystang]

I noticed the guy doing 250 was in a bmw, on p plates i'm assuming. Is a good indication of how well the power to weight laws are working in Victoria, lol. you can't driva an xr8 thats limited to 200kmh but you can drive a bmw that will let you pull another 50kmh.

[Lukeyson]

Be nice if it specified what model XR8 it was

[FPV8U]

Originally Posted by nobbystang

I noticed the guy doing 250 was in a bmw, on p plates i'm assuming.

: Is that meant to mean?

[Dr Smith]

Originally Posted by FPV8U

: Is that meant to mean?

As the linked story shows, it was a 20 y.o. in a BMW with an 18 y.o. female passenger. Doesn't mention the car was stolen so unless he's a drug dealer or a lotto winner, or an incredibely successful high achiever that has worked 100 hour weeks all at overtime rates, then he most likely had a borrowed car (eg. parents) and he should have been driving with p plates, whether he did is another story. And you don't get many mid aged drivers caught at these rediculous speeds on public roads.

[FPV8U]

Originally Posted by Dr Smith

As the linked story shows, it was a 20 y.o. in a BMW with an 18 y.o. female passenger. Doesn't mention the car was stolen so unless he's a drug dealer or a lotto winner, or an incredibely successful high achiever that has worked 100 hour weeks all at overtime rates, then he most likely had a borrowed car (eg. parents) and he should have been driving with p plates, whether he did is another story.

My Fault i should have read the article :

[Keepleft]

The most serious offence on the face of it is the one detected at 180km/h in the 60km/h zone. This is obviously a built-up area, inherently far more dangerous than someone in a 110km/h dual-carriageway zone, full stop.

Rem, these are typically momentary speed 'top outs', not necessarily sustained, - owing the necessity to vary speed because of constantly varying road and traffic changes per length.

REM too - that on the rural Stuart Highway in NT, this is not an offence.

Each offender detected is guilty of 'exceeding the speed limit' and should plead so at court, but may or may not be found guilty of other 'speed related' charges.

What comes into this is 'manner', the length of road/duration, and factors relating to varying traffic density and so on.

Some at speed are quite tidy, yet others at the same speed can appear quite messy.

The 250km/h speed (70 metres per second) is normal, dry - daily autobahn speed, and I can tell you autobahn are not the ants pants of road building either.

IF we argue a '5 second reaction time' (hideously drunk/dead person performance) for an 'event requiring urgent action on part of the driver' to the 70 metres for 250km/h reality, thats 350 metres travelled before driver action to brake.

Add then to this 350 metre distance figure - the braking performance of say an FSM Niki from that speed (250km/h) to come to a full, safe stop, lets say 200 metres:-) a total of 550 metres SIGHT DISTANCE of a length of road would be required, and mathmatically is required to be considered safe.

The further you can see ahead so to speak, the better.

HOWEVER, other factors come into play that combat that mathmatical reality are for example, 'night driving and headlight' seeing performance, TYRE speed rating and pressure at point of operation, and indeed literally hundreds of other factors that I can think of can come into play that can prove various charges, but may not if they are not factual.

[gozza]

Originally Posted by nobbystang

on p plates i'm assuming.

speculation is a form of iggnorance

[nobbystang]

Originally Posted by gozza

speculation is a form of iggnorance

No just assuming he is because it happened in Victoria, the driver was 20, and P platers are required to do 3 years in the state. The article didn't state if he was or not which is very unusual for a newspaper not to. Normally the headline would have read P-plater caught doing 250kmh etc.

[Noddy]

Interesting thread, it so happens I had a chance meeting with a young lad driving daddy’s supercharged Jag yesterday. True, the T3's body kit/rear wing does attract a fair amount of ****ers but this guy took the cake. I had this guy riding my ИИИИ and then backing off for 50m's only to accelerate right up my ring again.

The single lane road divided into two and I slipped into the right lane and pulled up at the lights. I couldn't see the lights on this Jag he was so close to the back of my car. Anyway lights go green and I accelerated briskly from the lights for 100m's or so with this Jag following closely. We were gaining on some slow traffic at the base of this hill and I slowed but this young lad thought bugger that ill just cross through a gap in the island onto the wrong side of the road and keep the Jag nailed. I estimate that his speed would have been 100kph+, the Jag suspension bottoms out at the base of the hill and then continues up the other side not knowing if there was any oncoming traffic.

Only at the crest of the hill was he able to cross back over into the correct lane, it was truly a miracle that another car wasn't coming the other way. Well it didn't stop there, he then pulled over and waited for me to come past and then peel out in front of me a couple of times. In the end I pulled over in a side street. My wife said did you get the plate number? : Absolutely insane driving, if there had been motorists coming the other way the impact would have been enormous.

[Ultimate]

Lol yer funny that. You cant drive a xr8 with a 260kw motor but you can go and by a 4cylinder ricer and do it to 400kw at the rear wheel and keep at it

[TEaaron]

The guy doing 250km was intercepted in wangarata in a BMW

[[Tonko]]

the bloke in the beemer was 23 and was seen at the avenal turnoff, they didnt catch him for another 100 or so km, in wangaratta.has was clocked at 253km/h. or so they said on the news, that road is rough as in some spots so he got lucky.... still an absolute ****er though