Clarkson Has A Speeding Ticket At Last.

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29674351

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2798103/you-not-argentina-jeremy-gear-presenter-clarkson-gets-speeding-points-30-years.html

Doing 80 something in a 60 mph zone. Deserves everything he gets, although I expect he thinks its the nasty, unnecessary speed camera and not his dangerous driving that is at fault. What a twit !

[bazwillrun]

"Clarkson Has A Speeding Ticket At Last"
so youve had to wait all this time just for that.....

the fact that its a 60mph limit tells me all I need to know, hardly a pedestrian back street is it...as to dangerous driving, how do you know he was driving dangerously, just because he was faster than the limit doesnt mean that it was "dangerous"...dangerous to who ?

what a petty little bitter person you are mikey....let me guess , youve never ever driven faster than the speed limit then..no of course you havent

[Daffy6543]

Clarkson has experience of driving many different cars, very quickly, in various environments and weather conditions. I would argue that he was not really a danger to other road users as he is a good/advanced driver.

[janbee]

Mikey, thank you for the BA.
xx

[mikey4444]

Glad to be of service Janbee...at least there is two of us that recognises him for whathe is ! According to somebody on here, he must be a "good driver" as he was caught exceeding the speed limit ! I would have thought that the definition of a good driver would at least include obeying the law but apparently not.

My purpose here today was to show the hypocrisy of this man. He has campaigned consistently against speed cameras but we now have the delicious irony to see that he has at last been caught by one. But he is not alone in thinking that speed limits shouldn't apply to them, as lots of people in Britain seem to have the same idea.

[ummmm]

What he is? What is he?

[Baldric]

/// According to somebody on here, he must be a "good driver" as he was caught exceeding the speed limit ! ///

Who said that then Mikey, are we looking at the same thread?

[tonyav]

Considering it's his first speeding ticket in 30 years he hasn't done to badly.

[-Talbot-]

He has campaigned consistently against speed cameras but we now have the delicious irony to see that he has at last been caught by one


That isn't irony, if he campaign for them that would be irony.
Right or wrong? (I am willing to be corrected)

[Daffy6543]

That is not what I said mikey and you know it! Don't twist my words to try and make me look stupid.

[mikey4444]

But is it his first ticket in 30 years ? In his own words, it isn't :::::

"In 2008, Clarkson claimed in a talk at the Hay Festival to have been given a speeding ticket for driving at 186 mph on the A1203 Limehouse Link road in London"

This is taken from his Wiki entry but he seems to be confused about whether he had a ticket of not. But it was enough to cause a fuss at the time ::

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7424651.stm

Another case of shooting his mouth off and then having to apologise afterwards.

[jackthehat]

186mph would have got him more than a speeding ticket.
He uses a lot of hyperbole; I think that might just have been one such occasion.

[ummmm]

Sometimes, Mikey, you come across as quite ***.

[tonyav]

If he had got nicked doing 186 mph do you not think he would have been banned from driving for some time.

[ummmm]

Of course he would have.

[tonyav]

mikey, you forgot to to tag this on the end of your
"In 2008, Clarkson claimed in a talk at the Hay Festival to have been given a speeding ticket for driving at 186 mph on the A1203 Limehouse Link road in London"

Copy and paste.

"Well, somebody did. Obviously it might not have been me."

[Prudie]

How on earth can you judge someone on one speeding ticket? It's a piddly penalty for him anyway so I wouldn't rub your hands with too much glee mikey.

[mikey4444]

He either did get a ticket driving at 186 mph or he didn't. My best guess is that he didn't, purely on the grounds that the A1203 Limehouse Link Road is not long enough for that speed to have been achieved, even in a Veyron.

So why did he say it in the first place ? As a high-profile figure in the motoring world, he should be campaigning for road safety, not continually mocking the authorities in their fight against speeding. Instead he continues to behave like a silly school boy, who thinks its funny to sit in the back of the class, farting away to amuse similar juveniles like him.

[jackthehat]

He said it because.......that's what he does!

He doesn't take himself seriously, it's a pity that so many other people do.

[Svejk]

I agree Talbot. Well spotted. ;)
You always seem full of malice, mikey. I'd seriously seek some counselling or something. It cant make you happy, can it?

[ChillDoubt]

IMHO, 80+ in a 60 mph zone isn't massively excessive.
If he had been doing that in a 70 and was pulled he would in all probability be given a stern warning by the traffic bobby under ACPO rules.
50+ in a 30 is far worse in my book and given that he wasn't endangering(he wasn't charged with dangerous driving as is claimed in the OP) other road users, along with his driving experience means this is pretty much a non-story TBH.
Had he been weaving in and out of traffic at excessive speed I could understand the furore but he wasn't.

In response to this:
I would have thought that the definition of a good driver would at least include obeying the law but apparently not.
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Countless F1 drivers have been caught speeding, inlcuding Damon Hill and Lewis Hamilton. I'll wager that they're a tad more than 'good drivers'!!