To name and shame this speeding twat...

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Someone I knew from school has posted on their facebook, a video of them driving (what I can gather is a new car) at 140mph down a duel carriageway (only 2 lanes), and was also stupid enough to film it and post it on facebook. I left a less than amused comment and expect to be unfriended shortly.

Shall I share it highlighting the stupidity and hope it goes viral before he deletes it or me...there was no shot of the speedo so useless for the police....

I currently have a clean licence and 1 million+ accident free miles under my belt.

Me too. But that doesn't change the fact that today could be the day that I get into my car today and kill someone. I don't care how 'highly trained' someone is; I don't care if you're Michael Schumaker - you have NO justification for driving this fast on a public road.

The ability to handle a car and to judge driving conditions only takes you so far. That is why there are accidents involving even highly trained advanced police pursuit drivers and racing car drivers on tracks. You cannot compensate for everything.

The difference is that racing car drivers can justify the risk because everyone on the track has given informed consent to that risk. Police car drivers can justify the risk for a greater good - capture of a dangerous criminal, ability to save someone's life by arriving in time, etc.

What is the justification for your average Joe? Wanting 5 more minutes in bed or the sheer thrill of it?

Great drivers drive within the legal limits and don't intimidate other road users by wankerish behaviour.

Anyone driving otherwise is a total twat and a danger to everyone including themselves.

Great, great post Clara.

My husband is blue light trained- reasonable and NECESSARY speed is what it's about. After seeing a pedestrian with their head caved in due to a cunting speeding twat, he certainly agrees there is nothing worth speeding for.

Shop the bastards who drive badly. They hurt far too many people.

I have always had a clean licence. I win.

Comparing an advanced-trained police officer in a marked, purpose-built and religiously maintained vehicle with blue lights and sirens going, on the way to an emergency where every second might count, to an experienced driver in even a good car, is hilarious.

So Jeremy Clarkson wannabes post on mumsnet! Who knew?

AKAK81 - you evidently drive like a git. Please try not to harm any of our loved ones when you end up in the inevitable pile of twisted metal. Not because of your speed but because of your arrogance.

OP - YANBU, sounds like you scared the twat.

Well AKAK81 is coming across as a bit of a twat but as s/he pointed out there are fewer and fewer unrestricted sections on German autobahns and, at the risk of being flamed, I have regularly driven at speeds that you are all busy hoiking your judgey pants at on those sections along with large numbers of other German road users.

However I do keep to the speed limits where they exist and I do keep speed down when driving conditions merit it.

But AKAK81 will hopefully find out very soon that speeding on French motorways is a pretty stupid idea as they have a lot more traffic police than in the UK and are also introducing averaging speed cameras (and are also cracking down on foreigners that speed).

AKAK sounds like you've been lucky so far to keep your license at all, let alone it being clean. If you speed then sooner or later you'll get caught out - hopefully sooner in your case for safety reasons.

Fecklessness, overconfidence and arrogance do not a safe driver make.

I drive on blue lights for a living, I am an EMT with a northern ambulance service. The first thing a good driver asks themselves is, do I need to be driving this fast. AKAwhatever there is no need whatsoever for anyone other than a poice officer in pursuit to drive at 140mph. I am trained to drive at high speed and can do all the points that you mention. Unless you are also a trained and regular blue light driver you can not and are a danger to other road users. It is not enough to simply have read Roadcraft, thnat is the easy bit, the hard bit is applying it, all of it not just bits when you remember. That is what a blue light training course does, it teaches you to put roadcraft into use in a critical honest environment.

Once we are trained we drive at high speed on blue lights every working day, even so we get into bad driving habits. We are reassesed on our driving regularly and it is ALWAYS an eye opener to realise how many bad habits we have picked up. Your lack of training and experience combined with your self rightous arrogant manner makes you the worst person on the road, someone who believes they are compenetent but are in fact stupidly ignorant. Your first two weeks of a blue light course would address your arrogance and would be very painful for you. Driving on a German autobahn in a straight line for 10-15 mins does not make you a safe high speed driver. Please do not drive near any of my family or friends.

My Father had to be cut out of a wreckage by Firefighters many years ago. The Firemen told him if he was on the Passenger side he wouldn't have survived. His car was stationary and he got quite literally wrapped round the Lamppost. The people that hit him were Joyriders being chased by Police at a speed of 80mph. I dread to think what Damage 140mph can do! :(