Hoon caught doing 225kmph in his FPV ute!!!!

[STINKY NINJA]

I thought past mundijong rd was a 110 zone,either way good job for getting caught.haha its only a crime if you get caught,i mean what a silly boy...

[IDT]

If he is from Falcon he should well know that road is a camera hotspot. He was being a knob and should consider himself lucky it was a camera that caught him and not a roo. Throw the book at him. No excuse for that level of stupidity.

[jas98]

Originally Posted by Kevaclone

Whilst listening to the scanner one evening a few years ago
Heard a call from a Camera van for a HWP car to do a Patrol on the Logan Motorway as they just had an XR6T fly past at 260kph, all they could see on the image was the last two letters of the numberplate and the XR6 Turbo badge
so a bit more than 260 and you'll be right

so 261kph?/ pice of cake. now get my grave dug for tommorow. lol

seriously we have all done stupid speeds before, but i have not done anything near that!!

[jas98]

Originally Posted by MAFIA

Car impounded for 28 Days, loses licence for 6 month and fine will be around $400-$1000 mark!

in qld 3.5 year ago i lost me licese for 6 months and 933 buck fine and 8 points (even though i only had 4 on p plates) for 142 in a 100 zone.........


he will get court appearance, massive fine (id say arounf the 4 grand mark) and if he has been caught speeding/hooning/being a dick in teh past before then i wouldnt be suprised he he gets jail time..


the cops here are after a orage ve commodore that fled from cops...last i herd the cops were well over 200kph and the car was pulling away! (in a 100 zone) so the cancelled the chase (gave up?? lol) they lost the car but it had no plates (this was saturday just past) there asking for public help

[Dave R]

225 on a 3 lane freeway at night in an FPV, it would have only taken seconds to get there from 110, Brembos would stop him fairly well too. I'm not making excuses for him but you hear about people doing this kind of thing in Corollas - now that's stupid. It only takes seconds in a muscle car.

I'd lock him up simply for being silly enough to get caught by a bloody camera of all things. I'm surprised he didn't report it stolen after seeing the flash.

[PHANTMXR6]

I can't see anywhere in that report that says it's an FPV??
Are we just assuming it's an FPV because the media have reported it as a Ford performance utility?

[jas98]

think it was on news and they showed the car etc...not sure

[XBROO]

Live and learn speed kills, but like others have said we all were young and stupid once.

[new2ford]

That's a normal motorway speed in Germany (at least for BMW/Audi/Mercs) and the police don't bat an eyelid, yet here it is hooning?

I came back to Australia yesterday and going onto the motorway out of Sydney limited to 100-110 I felt like I was trapped in a still-life painting!

[FGII-XR6]

some of you think this is funny. we are not talking about a momentary lapse going over the limit for a few seconds. if you have ever been stupid enough to do this kind of speed ( I have , not proud of it) you will know what I mean, at these speed you know you're moving and you need to have your wits about you.
the slightest loss of concentration at these speeds and it's game over, as I said I was stupid enough to be guilty of this many years ago and was lucky enough to survive and learn how stupid I was.
if you want to do these speeds use the track not the road and don't joke about idiots who do these speeds on the road, it's not funny

[new2ford]

The slightest loss of concentration at anything over 90 is probably going to be fatal so yes you need to concentrate at speed, that's obvious.

[aussie muscle]

Originally Posted by trentski

Well at least we know that you need to be going faster than 225kmh to get through before the photo is taken

mythbusters did a segment on outspeeding the speed camera. even a lambo couldn't escape it. they ended up using a rocket dragster, which was able to get through the camera without it photographing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4pE1KBsWb0

[duaned]

An idiot like that does not deserve a thread on this forum. Time to move on.

[flappist]

There is a time and a place for everything.

I have done over 200km/h on roads in Australia many many times when the open zones were about (and will do again soon if all goes to plan).

I do not know this particular road as to how busy or dangerous it was at the time but based on some of the replies here I suspect the whole "speed kills" brainwashing campaign is support of the speed camera tax and vilifying all car enthusiasts is working very well.

Yes they guy was going fast on a road that has a limit that may or may not be appropriate but to come out and say that the only place where it is safe go faster than 110 is on a track is just naive and myopic.

[FGII-XR6]

Originally Posted by flappist

There is a time and a place for everything.

I have done over 200km/h on roads in Australia many many times when the open zones were about (and will do again soon if all goes to plan).

I do not know this particular road as to how busy or dangerous it was at the time but based on some of the replies here I suspect the whole "speed kills" brainwashing campaign is support of the speed camera tax and vilifying all car enthusiasts is working very well.

Yes they guy was going fast on a road that has a limit that may or may not be appropriate but to come out and say that the only place where it is safe go faster than 110 is on a track is just naive and myopic.

While you are right in the context you speak of, on a road with a limit of less than half the speed he was doing he is asking for trouble. When you have everyone doing 100 and he is doing 215 the risks are far greater . on a road where people routinely do greater speeds the drivers expect faster cars and act accordingly.
but in general the speeds we are talking are risky with the current roads and driver behaviour.
the chances of getting open speeds in NSW are less than zero bearing in mind the high traffic volumes and Harold Scrubby. Although open speeds are workable in NT they are not practical in higher population areas, I do see a valid case for 130K limits on freeways in more populated states though.

[flappist]

Originally Posted by au3xr6

While you are right in the context you speak of, on a road with a limit of less than half the speed he was doing he is asking for trouble. When you have everyone doing 100 and he is doing 215 the risks are far greater . on a road where people routinely do greater speeds the drivers expect faster cars and act accordingly.
but in general the speeds we are talking are risky with the current roads and driver behaviour.
the chances of getting open speeds in NSW are less than zero bearing in mind the high traffic volumes and Harold Scrubby. Although open speeds are workable in NT they are not practical in higher population areas, I do see a valid case for 130K limits on freeways in more populated states though.

Part of the problem there is that so many have been brainwashed into thinking that NSW actually stands for "Newcastle Sydney Wollongong".

Just how high are the traffic volumes between Broken Hill and Bourke?

[XR6_661]

Brrraaaaaap

[usernametaken]

125kmh over the limit is just stupid and dangerous.

The guy's a d*** head, plain and simple.

[pottery beige]

chew through a bit of juice at that speed.. outrageous selfish act think of the planet...

[tweeked]

Hysteria - and everyone is buying into it.

The reality is on a freeway of the quality that this is built to in this section, this speed on an equivalent road in Germany would be legal. So it is hardly a killing babies offence.

But others are not expecting it, so there is a danger IF there are other cars (the road is pretty empty late at night when I have been staying down in Mandurah)

However, you have to respect the law even if it is wrong, so he deserves a hefty fine and loss of license. Any more and it is out of step with any other fine, penalty etc. for whacking someone in a Pub for instance - which is far more likely to cause injury or death. To put someone in jail (like what some are calling for) for something like this (IF the road is deserted) is just stupid.

[T4ME]

Originally Posted by PHANTMXR6

I can't see anywhere in that report that says it's an FPV??
Are we just assuming it's an FPV because the media have reported it as a Ford performance utility?

Word on the street is it was a MK1

I think this kind of hooning should get more than 28 days.

The old safe word is getting stretched a bit here.

[Zaxx]

Maybe his flip down numberplate failed to operate....

[usernametaken]

how were his tyres?

wear?

inflation?

I don't care if he hurts himself, his choice.

what I do care about is the other person coming home on the same stretch of road at the same time.

[RedHotGT]

I'm very interested in the perspectives on this thread.
So - I have a challenge for all of the viewers out there.

ADD THANKS to this post if you have honestly done over 200km/h on public roads at any time during your life.

I'll explain why shortly - once we get some responses..........
(Sorry to hijack the OP - but I am going somewhere with it)

[cs123]

Originally Posted by loftie

I'll explain why shortly - once we get some responses..........

Because you're a cop?

[Keepleft]

Originally Posted by new2ford

That's a normal motorway speed in Germany (at least for BMW/Audi/Mercs) and the police don't bat an eyelid, yet here it is hooning?

I came back to Australia yesterday and going onto the motorway out of Sydney limited to 100-110 I felt like I was trapped in a still-life painting!

True dat, I recall arriving back in OZ as a kid back in 74' on hols from PNG, grandpa took me out in his old Holden ute from Cooranbong to Wyong, hit Hue Hue road lengths where it was (//) - he was doing typically up to 140km/h and complaining about people 'going too fast' as a bloke in a red black striped Ford went on by.

The same length is posted 80-90km/h max now, it use to be 100km/h.

Recall family doing the Hume 100-160km/h, Peats Ridge Road NSW CC 100-180km/h. Most time just relaxed travel 0-140km/h on those (//) zones.

If this WA bloke was doing 200plus with multitiudes of 'modern' AUS traffic,- he'd be a fool, on the other hand if he was 'alone' - don't care too much owing sight distances of a freeway (few hundred metres plus) etc and so on, the delinneation criteria in AUSROADS isn't that mmuch different to Euro freeway, though we permit steeper climbs.

[Grunter]

Originally Posted by loftie

I'm very interested in the perspectives on this thread.
So - I have a challenge for all of the viewers out there.

ADD THANKS to this post if you have honestly done over 200km/h on public roads at any time during your life.

I'll explain why shortly - once we get some responses..........
(Sorry to hijack the OP - but I am going somewhere with it)

For clarity sake, on NT roads 15 years ago. Given when the Gov drills into all theses days, I'm amazed I survived!

[DJM83]

Sounds like a few ppl in this thread have never broken the law.... Model citizens it seems.

[pottery beige]

I can honestly say that txting at 200kmh+ is difficult and a silly thing too do...

[MWTB]

Originally Posted by pottery beige

I can honestly say that txting at 200kmh+ is difficult and a silly thing too do...

Dude, try rolling a cigarette.