My story for others to learn from...

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Thanks for sharing blk6t... 150 is not hard to do at all (even in a NA Bseries XR6). Who on this forum can say they have never done those speeds on a freeway somewhere late at night?

PS, where were you booked?

Originally Posted by GTP owner

I don't think you are an idiot - you just made the same kind of mistake most of us make when we are young and full of testosterone.

It does illustrate a point though - and that is: Why did you stop? Given the punishment is so harsh, i could understand why someone would do a runner. Now, don't take that i am advocating doing a runner, but I think that the harsher the punishment is, the more extreme the measures people will take to avoid being stopped.
The next part of that problem therefore becomes : How do you stop people doing a runner? Does a harsher penalty actually work? I know that they have just increased the penalty for failing to stop, but does this actually encourage someone to try even harder to get away?

So I think your post is great, and raises some interesting points. Namely that you learnt your lesson, and have come to appreciate the damage caused by crashes in cars. I just wish we could get the same message out about suicide, (which take double the number of lives per year that MVAs do)

As said above, look up Skye's law

Originally Posted by TheInterceptor

Yeh im goin agaisnt the grain.
If mr copper wasnt there, you would have pulled back in and slowed back down. Life goes on.

To me its very much an overeaction and ties in with the same old mantra which is a total toss.

Yes people are going to disagree, call me an idiot and whatnot but i dont care, im not a do gooder and i know my limits and my vehicles limits, im not sucked into this speeding garbage.....unlucky that you were caught, very unlucky...

And how can i reserve speed for the track when i drive what i drive? Slower than anything else on the track and higher center of gravity....yeh good thanks.

Least you learnt something...Happy trails.

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