Forum member on the BBC?

[ukdub]

Anyone else watch this last night. Around 15 minutes in

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tnqp4/Cars_Cops_and_Criminals_Fast_and_Dangerous/

Just wondered whether the BBC had to contact the member before showing this?

[Ifti]

What exactly should we be looking out for?

[MAT ED30]

14 min in the blue rs4 against an ed30 

[94Luke]

haha, I saw it too last night on the TV, couldn't quite believe it when I saw

[RedRobin]

14 min in the blue rs4 against an ed30 

....Can't think who that might have been!

Really not the best example of what they could have used to illustrate 'dangerous driving'. All it was, was speeding offences with two cars on a dual carriageway. Both cars are quite safe at 115 mph - They're designed and built for it, and so was the carriageway.

Did they ever find the blue RS Audi driver?

[ukdub]

14 min in the blue rs4 against an ed30 

....Can't think who that might have been!

Really not the best example of what they could have used to illustrate 'dangerous driving'. All it was, was speeding offences with two cars on a dual carriageway. Both cars are quite safe at 115 mph - They're designed and built for it, and so was the carriageway.

Did they ever find the blue RS Audi driver?

Counldn't of put it better myself RR.

[Poverty]

This is the 2nd forum member I know of to feature on one of these shows lol.

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[joesgti]

nice one ben! still makeing TV aperances!  

[RedRobin]

nice one ben! still makeing TV aperances! 

....Who's your agent, Ben? 

But, nobody get me wrong: I'm very pro police generally and very anti real dangerous driving. I think they just took the opportunity to show how they could use YouTube etc to their advantage and at the same time discourage speeding. The 70 limit is probably one of the very few UK road laws I disagree with. More discretion should be used.

[Sunglasses Ron]

Really not the best example of what they could have used to illustrate 'dangerous driving'. All it was, was speeding offences with two cars on a dual carriageway. Both cars are quite safe at 115 mph - They're designed and built for it, and so was the carriageway.

Exactly Robin, especially when you see them catching motorcyclists doing over 125mph in a 60, overtaking on solid white lines and then, nice as pie, giving them a fixed penalty FFS   What's that all about?????????????  
Just to rub salt in the wounds, they made it look like I lost       And what's the crack with the sound affects in the back ground..?

Wasn't actually watching it when it was on as I had an early night. Only to then get a flood of phone calls @11pm from my sympathetic mates    

[MAT ED30]

speed limit should be 80mph i think in uk

[RedRobin]

speed limit should be 80mph i think in uk

....Yep 

The whole of Europe should follow Germany's example. Jeeze, it's so boring coming back on the M20 after a trip through Europe.

[Sunglasses Ron]

As stupid and ridiculously dangerous as that truck driver was, I did laugh at his dance I have to say.. 

[MAT ED30]

speed limit should be 80mph i think in uk

....Yep 

The whole of Europe should follow Germany's example. Jeeze, it's so boring coming back on the M20 after a trip through Europe.

so true mate doing 150+ on the autobahn was a bit of comedown to 70mph in the uk 

[94Luke]

14 min in the blue rs4 against an ed30 

....Can't think who that might have been!

Really not the best example of what they could have used to illustrate 'dangerous driving'. All it was, was speeding offences with two cars on a dual carriageway. Both cars are quite safe at 115 mph - They're designed and built for it, and so was the carriageway.

Did they ever find the blue RS Audi driver?

I agree with this, people have it in their heads that speed is dangerous because of the (previous) government's campaigns the "Speed Kills". Yes, the drug might, but as Clarkson put it "Speeding has never killed anyone, it's suddenly become stationary that does". Now I hate people speeding near schools and built up areas, but there is a time and place for speed, and the only lives they were putting in danger there were their own as the chose to be in that car and do that - filming it was daft but he knows that now.

I think a person on ukmkvi's put it the best:

Wow, catching two speeding motorist on empty stretch of road from a video posted on a website... I'll sleep a lot better tonight now knowing the country is a much safer place.