is there such a thing as accelerating too quickly?
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I got a ticket for using my fog lights in foggy weather a couple of years ago 
The grumpy policeman said it wasent foggy enough to have them on
Saturday night gone for cigs (live country side) stopped in town by plot doing alcohol tests, waved me in and noticed that i had fog lights on uh uh
Saw my drivers license and realized i was 30 years old and not "how can a smart looking 18 year old effort a nice car like that" year old
Me thinks this policemam would rather be at home with the wife and drink tea and watch telli
Hence the utter b****** about my fog lights on in a deserted town at night and the fact that i have to drive to my house outside town in the foggy weather
The grumpy policeman said it wasent foggy enough to have them on
Saturday night gone for cigs (live country side) stopped in town by plot doing alcohol tests, waved me in and noticed that i had fog lights on uh uh
Saw my drivers license and realized i was 30 years old and not "how can a smart looking 18 year old effort a nice car like that" year old
Me thinks this policemam would rather be at home with the wife and drink tea and watch telli
Hence the utter b****** about my fog lights on in a deserted town at night and the fact that i have to drive to my house outside town in the foggy weather
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Originally Posted by gridgway
John if you are worried about the making up of inbetween events, why were you were musing over the G3 VM to txt thing earlier?
I was attempting to point out that the highway code tells us how to join a motorway, which is at odds to the original poster's way of doing it. Sounds dead on topic to me. Anyway I can see that you are "more than a match for me" to quote monty python's "argument" sketch.
Graham
I was attempting to point out that the highway code tells us how to join a motorway, which is at odds to the original poster's way of doing it. Sounds dead on topic to me. Anyway I can see that you are "more than a match for me" to quote monty python's "argument" sketch.
Graham
not really wanting to argue or be little anyone mate, that wasnt my intention at all.
about the phone network, it was simply a pi$$ take, people started to make events up, so i gave a possible reason for defense, thats all.
anyway, alls well that ends well 'n' all that.
cheers
john
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Hoskib,
none of us were there so we really can't comment on whether your acceleration was dangerous. Agreed it does sound a bit odd, but as the only person that saw it was the policeman, and as he's a damn site more qualified than I am to judge these things, I'll side with him for now. Sorry.
However, stopping on the hard shoulder of a motorway is dangerous and should be avoided at all costs. To answer a text message is not a good enough reason to stop there and put your life at risk. The quantity of lorrys (for example) I see on a daily basis straying a metre onto the hard shoulder makes me NEVER want to stop there, and if I have to (in an EMERGENCY) I certainly wouldn't be sitting in the car for long.
As we don't 100% know the circumstances of the text incident we can argue the toss about it for a few more days if you want, but for the sake of living a bit longer, consider yourself lucky for now and think about reconsidering your options if you have to do it again.
Don't want to see another scooby statistic of that nature on our highways.
Rich
none of us were there so we really can't comment on whether your acceleration was dangerous. Agreed it does sound a bit odd, but as the only person that saw it was the policeman, and as he's a damn site more qualified than I am to judge these things, I'll side with him for now. Sorry.
However, stopping on the hard shoulder of a motorway is dangerous and should be avoided at all costs. To answer a text message is not a good enough reason to stop there and put your life at risk. The quantity of lorrys (for example) I see on a daily basis straying a metre onto the hard shoulder makes me NEVER want to stop there, and if I have to (in an EMERGENCY) I certainly wouldn't be sitting in the car for long.
As we don't 100% know the circumstances of the text incident we can argue the toss about it for a few more days if you want, but for the sake of living a bit longer, consider yourself lucky for now and think about reconsidering your options if you have to do it again.
Don't want to see another scooby statistic of that nature on our highways.
Rich
Originally Posted by EVOLUTION
FFS, what does it matter, did he break the law??? NO
, if the slip road was on to a motorway and he pulled on to the hardshoulder of the slip to read/reply to the text then he did break the law technically.But it's better (in my opinion) to do this than replying whilst driving, althugh both potentially carry the same penalty
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Originally Posted by pete higham
if you had a very urgent text i think you would stop too
you dont know his circumstances
you dont know his circumstances
The fact he admits to stopping to reply implies he had read the text message on the move, or how did he know it was important? Poxy O2 have started filling my inbox with uniportant "you have just missed a call from...." messages
(ps why can't you quote a quote in a reply?
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Originally Posted by EVOLUTION
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not really wanting to argue or be little anyone mate, that wasnt my intention at all.
about the phone network, it was simply a pi$$ take, people started to make events up, so i gave a possible reason for defense, thats all.
anyway, alls well that ends well 'n' all that.
cheers
john
not really wanting to argue or be little anyone mate, that wasnt my intention at all.
about the phone network, it was simply a pi$$ take, people started to make events up, so i gave a possible reason for defense, thats all.
anyway, alls well that ends well 'n' all that.
cheers
john
Graham
PS not clever enough to do the smiley thing!
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Originally Posted by SteveScooby
Just to be picky , if the slip road was on to a motorway and he pulled on to the hardshoulder of the slip to read/reply to the text then he did break the law technically.
But it's better (in my opinion) to do this than replying whilst driving, althugh both potentially carry the same penalty
, if the slip road was on to a motorway and he pulled on to the hardshoulder of the slip to read/reply to the text then he did break the law technically.But it's better (in my opinion) to do this than replying whilst driving, althugh both potentially carry the same penalty
you may very well be right about the law, so i will take that one back, appoligies everyone...
BUT, looking at it from another angle.... He did make the choice to stop and read it rather than reply, that much is pretty clear. This might be agaist the law
, but so is driving whilst texting. And for one moment, stuff the law, what if he had crashed whilst texting, wiped out another car with a couple and there 3 kids in the back???? people end up seriously injured or worse.... that wasnt possible if he was stopped....looking at it that way, by stopping on the hard shoulder, he could have been involved in an accident, but not have caused one, or am i wrong there as well....
all of the arguing is based on the texting issue here, you have all clearly missed the point of the topic
is there such a thing as accelerating too quickly?
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What you'll find has happened is that the police have misinterpreted the intentions of the driver.
The police have probably noticed the driver having sat on the hard shoulder. This has been brought to their attention and so proceed to investigate (curiosity)
When the driver has pulled away and accelerated smartly (or accelerated a lot quicker than the majority of vehicles on the roads today) on to the motorway, their curiosity has now risen to another level and so they've decided it's worth stopping the vehicle to find out why he was stopped and why he accelerated at such a rate of knots.
The police may possibly have thought that the driver had seen them and so didn't want their attention, in words, it could have looked like the driver had for example, a stolen vehicle.
Now, with that scenario, if you had your car stolen and the police came across a situation like this, wouldn't you be glad there actually doing there job in trying to locate the stolen vehicle?....
The police have probably noticed the driver having sat on the hard shoulder. This has been brought to their attention and so proceed to investigate (curiosity)
When the driver has pulled away and accelerated smartly (or accelerated a lot quicker than the majority of vehicles on the roads today) on to the motorway, their curiosity has now risen to another level and so they've decided it's worth stopping the vehicle to find out why he was stopped and why he accelerated at such a rate of knots.
The police may possibly have thought that the driver had seen them and so didn't want their attention, in words, it could have looked like the driver had for example, a stolen vehicle.
Now, with that scenario, if you had your car stolen and the police came across a situation like this, wouldn't you be glad there actually doing there job in trying to locate the stolen vehicle?....
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maybe so, but can i ask did he ask for your docs??? and proof of ID????
And on another note, i wouldnt want my car back if it was stolen, it never ever feels the same. Im sure there are people that will agree on that one.
Sorry, the people who are covered FC any way.
And on another note, i wouldnt want my car back if it was stolen, it never ever feels the same. Im sure there are people that will agree on that one.
Sorry, the people who are covered FC any way.
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