Brit police nab country's fastest speeder ever
When Tim Brady punched the accelerator in the Porsche 911 Turbo he was piloting down a rural road in Oxfordshire earlier this year, he could never have imagined that the action would become a moment of infamy. After all, he had to feel pretty confident that no police were on speed patrol where he was, else he wouldn't have wound the car out to 172 MPH. Unfortunately for him, the fuzz was there, and yesterday, Mr. Brady officially became the fastest speeder ever caught in Great Britain when he pled guilty to charges of dangerous driving. His 172 MPH shatters the former high mark of 156 MPH set by a BMW M3 driver in Scotland. That guy went to jail for five months, which doesn't bode well for Mr. Clark.
[Source: The Press Association via Breitbart]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Seminole 3:35PM (8/25/2007)
Meh, he's only the fastest one...... that's been CAUGHT.
But I guess telling that to women at the bar could work for him.
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Dino 4:12PM (8/25/2007)
Aren't bmw m3's limited to 155?
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Solo Racer 8:59PM (8/25/2007)
Only in North America or maybe just the U.S.
Jon 8:25PM (8/26/2007)
Yeah, you're right, there's an enormous difference between 155mph and 156mph.
epp_b 4:21PM (8/25/2007)
Considering that he's in Britain, he'll probably get the death penalty for speeding...
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vv 6:23AM (8/26/2007)
The UK doesn't have the death penalty. So that's fairly unlikely.
epp_b 12:47PM (8/26/2007)
It appears that your sarcasm detector is broken.
geo.stewart 4:32PM (8/25/2007)
Sentencing:
Mr Brady,
You are hereby sentenced to 6 mos. community service in America, teaching Driver's Ed to ignorant prima donna celebrities in Los Angeles. Your first class will have Lindsey Lohan, Paris Hilton,....
Mr. Brady: Uh, your honor, how bout life without parole?
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AMGoff 4:51PM (8/25/2007)
172mph?? At that rate he would have crossed the entire country in like four minutes...
The part I'm more intrigued about is doesn't the man over in Britain use Vauxhalls as patrol cars? How the hell would a Vauxhall have caught a Turbo??? He could have made it to the chunnel and been half way to Switzerland before the po even turned around!
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Cam 6:33PM (8/25/2007)
lol, excellent speed record :P
Over in the UK, we have a variety of cop cars for different purposes:
Vauxhall's are usually used for domestic like investigating complaints etc
Range Rovers are used on motorway work as they are big and easy to see at a distance
Volvo V70's tend to be for traffic policing and armed response units as well as BMW 5-Series
Some forces use Mitsubishi Evo's and Subaru Impreza's for the high speed chases
Amazing how he did it on a country road too.
Jimmy 4:52PM (8/25/2007)
what about smokey nagata?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAyE-SUYcj0&mode=related&search=
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Mehool 10:14PM (8/25/2007)
Yes, smokey hit 300kmph so I don't know why he's not the #1 offender. Maybe he wasn't prosecuted...?
cheezedog 5:01PM (8/25/2007)
Tim Brady is now my personal hero.
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Richard Warren 5:09PM (8/25/2007)
"The part I'm more intrigued about is doesn't the man over in Britain use Vauxhalls as patrol cars? How the hell would a Vauxhall have caught a Turbo???"
Ever hear of radio? You may outrun the car, you won't outrun the speed of light.
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nastinupe 5:16PM (8/25/2007)
Light waves and radio waves are not the same...
geo.stewart 5:19PM (8/25/2007)
maybe he morse-coded with his flashlight and used his radio to make sure it got through...
;-)
can't outrun the radio but you can outsmart it.
Luffa 5:24PM (8/25/2007)
All electromagnetic waves, including radio waves, travel at the speed of light
Jonathan Fung 6:23PM (8/25/2007)
Yup, Luffa is right. Electromagnetic waves (radio waves, light, microwaves, etc.) all move at the same speed, 300,000,000 m/s. Radio waves, which have a longer wavelength than visible light simply have a lower frequency.
C=wf
c=speed of light
w=wavelength (since I don't have a lambda key)
f= frequency
AMGoff 8:58PM (8/25/2007)
Wow... we took that a little too seriously now didn't we?
Thanks for the physics lesson and all but you might want to try some bigger sized panties next time!
yakapo 11:40AM (8/27/2007)
actually the speed of light is 186,282.397 miles per second.