To the a***hole in the silver Evo.
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I applaud you, that man with the huge c**k that was willy-waving in his Evo last night.
Deciding that the empty 2 mile straight after Willingham was a terrible place to overtake, and instead doing it in the last 200 yards of the 30 zone - that was true genius. While you were quite capably showing off that you could overtake a V6 Shogun and a V6 Mondeo when they're cruising at 35mph, and while you were demonstrating your awesome manhood in accelerating such a powerful car to whatever you could in 2nd gear, did you take time to notice the car you nearly went head on into?
Didn't think so.
Next time your approaching that derestriction, you might want to take note of the villager's drives on the right hand side of the road. And if you see the owner of the grey car in the second last drive, you might want to wave and say thanks for him stopping so abruptly when he saw your crazy maneover?
And next time you're going to attempt to cleanse the gene pool of your stupid gene, please don't do it 2 foot off my nearside wing.
I spent half of Sunday afternoon washing and polishing the car because I like it to look good. Its not because I was tarting it up for its date with destiny when your impatience leaves a spinning Mitsu slamming me in the front wing because you've hit another car at 60+.
Rant over.
Good lesson learnt, 30 zones are there for a reason. They're not a wise place to be flooring it down the wrong side of the road.
Deciding that the empty 2 mile straight after Willingham was a terrible place to overtake, and instead doing it in the last 200 yards of the 30 zone - that was true genius. While you were quite capably showing off that you could overtake a V6 Shogun and a V6 Mondeo when they're cruising at 35mph, and while you were demonstrating your awesome manhood in accelerating such a powerful car to whatever you could in 2nd gear, did you take time to notice the car you nearly went head on into?
Didn't think so.
Next time your approaching that derestriction, you might want to take note of the villager's drives on the right hand side of the road. And if you see the owner of the grey car in the second last drive, you might want to wave and say thanks for him stopping so abruptly when he saw your crazy maneover?
And next time you're going to attempt to cleanse the gene pool of your stupid gene, please don't do it 2 foot off my nearside wing.
I spent half of Sunday afternoon washing and polishing the car because I like it to look good. Its not because I was tarting it up for its date with destiny when your impatience leaves a spinning Mitsu slamming me in the front wing because you've hit another car at 60+.
Rant over.
Good lesson learnt, 30 zones are there for a reason. They're not a wise place to be flooring it down the wrong side of the road.
Interestingly no speed is actually mentioned, apart from it being more than 35mph. AFAIK there is not (yet) a law stipulating maximum G that may be achieved during acceleration - although of course once we're all plugged into Tony Blair's GPS tax machine, any force greater than 1.00001 will no doubt be recorded and a suitably stringent fine deducted from one's bank account.
I think the nub of this is not so much speed but appropiateness. What was the limit on that stretch of road in 1980?
I think the nub of this is not so much speed but appropiateness. What was the limit on that stretch of road in 1980?
simpo two said:
Interestingly no speed is actually mentioned, apart from it being more than 35mph. AFAIK there is not (yet) a law stipulating maximum G that may be achieved during acceleration - although of course once we're all plugged into Tony Blair's GPS tax machine, any force greater than 1.00001 will no doubt be recorded and a suitably stringent fine deducted from one's bank account.
I think the nub of this is not so much speed but appropiateness. What was the limit on that stretch of road in 1980?
I think the nub of this is not so much speed but appropiateness. What was the limit on that stretch of road in 1980?
It was within the last section of the town where there are still houses & drives on both sides of the road. The 30 zone finishes about 10m past after the last driveway.
IMHO it was a rash and dangerous overtake when (literally) a few seconds of patience and the train of cars would have been out of the 30 zone and onto a long clear straight with no houses, driveways, t-junctions or on-coming traffic.
Regarding v-max, maybe an Evo driver can tell us how fast you'd be travelling if you floored in 2nd or 3rd gears from 35mph for about 2 seconds.
I'm just thankful now that I'm not contemplating how to put the front of my car back together, or having a memory of watching a horrible accident.
You may be right, though if the proverbial child suddenly ran out from a drive you'd still have no time to brake and hence kill it at 30mph - but that would be legal of course.
I wonder what the limit was before the 'speedkills' epidemic, and how much the actions of the driver were prompted by possibly being stuck behind a queue of mesmerised numpties for x miles.
You can't really have traffic proceeding at childsafe speeds (20mph or lower) just because there's a driveway nearby. Drop the limit from 30 to 20 and since each vehicle then takes 50% longer to reach its destination and get off the road, you instantly have 50% more traffic.
What the motorist has lost is the ability to make judgements, and merely obey orders. I remember the case of the bereaved mother whose child had been run down in a residential street. 'I don't know how it happened' she said 'The driver wasn't speeding'.
Hey, Tufty Club anyone?
I wonder what the limit was before the 'speedkills' epidemic, and how much the actions of the driver were prompted by possibly being stuck behind a queue of mesmerised numpties for x miles.
You can't really have traffic proceeding at childsafe speeds (20mph or lower) just because there's a driveway nearby. Drop the limit from 30 to 20 and since each vehicle then takes 50% longer to reach its destination and get off the road, you instantly have 50% more traffic.
What the motorist has lost is the ability to make judgements, and merely obey orders. I remember the case of the bereaved mother whose child had been run down in a residential street. 'I don't know how it happened' she said 'The driver wasn't speeding'.
Hey, Tufty Club anyone?
cj_eds said:
I applaud you, that man with the huge c**k that was willy-waving in his Evo last night.
Deciding that the empty 2 mile straight after Willingham was a terrible place to overtake, and instead doing it in the last 200 yards of the 30 zone - that was true genius. While you were quite capably showing off that you could overtake a V6 Shogun and a V6 Mondeo when they're cruising at 35mph, and while you were demonstrating your awesome manhood in accelerating such a powerful car to whatever you could in 2nd gear, did you take time to notice the car you nearly went head on into?
Didn't think so.
Next time your approaching that derestriction, you might want to take note of the villager's drives on the right hand side of the road. And if you see the owner of the grey car in the second last drive, you might want to wave and say thanks for him stopping so abruptly when he saw your crazy maneover?
And next time you're going to attempt to cleanse the gene pool of your stupid gene, please don't do it 2 foot off my nearside wing.
I spent half of Sunday afternoon washing and polishing the car because I like it to look good. Its not because I was tarting it up for its date with destiny when your impatience leaves a spinning Mitsu slamming me in the front wing because you've hit another car at 60+.
Rant over.
Good lesson learnt, 30 zones are there for a reason. They're not a wise place to be flooring it down the wrong side of the road.
Deciding that the empty 2 mile straight after Willingham was a terrible place to overtake, and instead doing it in the last 200 yards of the 30 zone - that was true genius. While you were quite capably showing off that you could overtake a V6 Shogun and a V6 Mondeo when they're cruising at 35mph, and while you were demonstrating your awesome manhood in accelerating such a powerful car to whatever you could in 2nd gear, did you take time to notice the car you nearly went head on into?
Didn't think so.
Next time your approaching that derestriction, you might want to take note of the villager's drives on the right hand side of the road. And if you see the owner of the grey car in the second last drive, you might want to wave and say thanks for him stopping so abruptly when he saw your crazy maneover?
And next time you're going to attempt to cleanse the gene pool of your stupid gene, please don't do it 2 foot off my nearside wing.
I spent half of Sunday afternoon washing and polishing the car because I like it to look good. Its not because I was tarting it up for its date with destiny when your impatience leaves a spinning Mitsu slamming me in the front wing because you've hit another car at 60+.
Rant over.
Good lesson learnt, 30 zones are there for a reason. They're not a wise place to be flooring it down the wrong side of the road.
Willingham nr Sotterly?
Between 7pm and 8pm?
I was overtaken on the A145 (London Road) by a White Evo going condsiderably faster than the 50mpg I was travelling at the time. Same one perhaps?
Edited by thewave on Wednesday 14th March 12:50
iaint said:
cj_eds said:
Regarding v-max, maybe an Evo driver can tell us how fast you'd be travelling if you floored in 2nd or 3rd gears from 35mph for about 2 seconds.
If it was one of the ones with the big turbos (FQ400?) then probably about 40
Flew past quite quickly - too quick to tell exactly what one, but fast enough to know it wasn't 40
he got away with it, and everyones still intact. So everythings well that ends well??
cj_eds said:
iaint said:
cj_eds said:
Regarding v-max, maybe an Evo driver can tell us how fast you'd be travelling if you floored in 2nd or 3rd gears from 35mph for about 2 seconds.
If it was one of the ones with the big turbos (FQ400?) then probably about 40
Flew past quite quickly - too quick to tell exactly what one, but fast enough to know it wasn't 40
he got away with it, and everyones still intact. So everythings well that ends well??
Until next time and the chances are it'll be some other poor sod that cops it rather than you. We all have mad moments, mostly thay don't have big repercussions but I do think that some people's judgement systems are broken from the risks they take
simpo two said:
You may be right, though if the proverbial child suddenly ran out from a drive you'd still have no time to brake and hence kill it at 30mph - but that would be legal of course.
I wonder what the limit was before the 'speedkills' epidemic, and how much the actions of the driver were prompted by possibly being stuck behind a queue of mesmerised numpties for x miles.
You can't really have traffic proceeding at childsafe speeds (20mph or lower) just because there's a driveway nearby. Drop the limit from 30 to 20 and since each vehicle then takes 50% longer to reach its destination and get off the road, you instantly have 50% more traffic.
What the motorist has lost is the ability to make judgements, and merely obey orders. I remember the case of the bereaved mother whose child had been run down in a residential street. 'I don't know how it happened' she said 'The driver wasn't speeding'.
Hey, Tufty Club anyone?
I wonder what the limit was before the 'speedkills' epidemic, and how much the actions of the driver were prompted by possibly being stuck behind a queue of mesmerised numpties for x miles.
You can't really have traffic proceeding at childsafe speeds (20mph or lower) just because there's a driveway nearby. Drop the limit from 30 to 20 and since each vehicle then takes 50% longer to reach its destination and get off the road, you instantly have 50% more traffic.
What the motorist has lost is the ability to make judgements, and merely obey orders. I remember the case of the bereaved mother whose child had been run down in a residential street. 'I don't know how it happened' she said 'The driver wasn't speeding'.
Hey, Tufty Club anyone?
They teach "no win-no fee" accident litigation at schools now instead of the Green Cross Code! Who mentioned Darwin...
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