240 KMH Vid on Youtube

Sizzler

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/gardai-in-hunt-for-240kmh-youtube-boy-racer-1329234.html?from=dailynews

Can't seem to find it, but I'm guessing if the cops find the driver he better buy a scooter

CapnMark

Located here aswell, http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=55508309&posted=1#post55508309

Seems that they might catch the b*stard aswell

Anan1

"It is behind bars that person needs to be," he said.:)

Alun

Anan1 wrote: »

"It is behind bars that person needs to be," he said.:)

I didn't know Yoda worked for the Donegal Gardai

Max_Damage

Link to the video?

Alun

Max_Damage wrote: »

Link to the video?

It's been taken off Youtube, but over on the Donegal forum there's a link to a copy of it on some file sharing site.

mthd

http://rapidshare.com/files/102846203/get_video.flv.html

Cionád

What a f*ckin eegit

Run_to_da_hills

Anan1 wrote: »

"It is behind bars that person needs to be," he said.:)

Behind the bar of his local pub, this guy is laughing at the cops at this minute .

Sherifu

mthd wrote: »

http://rapidshare.com/files/102846203/get_video.flv.html

Lightspeed, hope he's caught.

Gandalf23

This is being discussed on "The Last Word" on Today FM now ...

Sherifu

Gandalf23 wrote: »

This is being discussed on "The Last Word" on Today FM now ...

Listening now, thanks.

cancan

Must have been a headwind that day - there is another 10mph top end unaccounted for....

Sandwich

Surprised he is being given a hard time. If, in his opinion, he was driving safely, then isnt it OK, whatever his actual speed was?

Cretin for Youtubing it tho.

Sherifu

Sandwich wrote: »

Surprised he is being given a hard time. If, in his opinion, he was driving safely, then isnt it OK, whatever his actual speed was?

Cretin for Youtubing it tho.

Safely?

Incredibly, at the moment the speedometer hits the top speed, the driver appears to take both hands off the steering wheel to point it out to the front seat passenger who is holding a camcorder.

Link

Safely is irrelevant anyway. He should never drive again.

mike65

No such thing as 155 mph safe on an open two lane road.

Mike.

MarkR

155 mph isn't safe on any public road in the country. If you think it is you are over estimating your driving ability.

cancan

Zee germans might have something to say about that.

But with the level of irish driver training, anything over 20kph is not safe...

Never seen a parked car crash, and I've never heard of and irish accident hapening at these high speeds.

Law abiliding citizens seem to have no problem crashing below the speed limit anyway.

niceirishfella

This guy need a good fooking hiding.
That's all i'm going to say on this Thread.

Alun

cancan wrote: »

Zee germans might have something to say about that.

Not even in Germany can you drive at those kinds of speeds on a normal 2 lane road. If anything their speed limits on these types of roads is lower than ours.

Rowley Birkin QC

How about this numpty?

Its basically outside my house.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=M9hCC3-sALk

eamon234

What a f*cking moron

Rowley Birkin QC

My thoughts exactly.

Looks like a yellow reg though so not much point sending it on to anyone I'd imagine.

Mental Mickey

bigkev49 wrote: »

How about this numpty?

Its basically outside my house.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=M9hCC3-sALk

F**kin idiot. "People" like that should be banned from driving any type of vehicle FOR LIFE!!!!

Sandwich

MarkR wrote: »

155 mph isn't safe on any public road in the country. If you think it is you are over estimating your driving ability.

You'll come in for a lot of criticism if you make comments about what is or isnt a safe speed for other people to drive at. Current thinking by many is that you, and you alone, should be able to decide what is a safe speed. If you keep at or below that, then you should not be penalised or criticised for doing it.

astraboy

I've seen far worse driving on the roads. Yes there is a time and a place to be drifting the ass of your car all over the place, and a relativelty busy 2 lane road is not it, the messing is inappropiate yes but hardly justifies a call to arms! Maybe I'm looking at the wrong video? No surprize the guy was driving a toyota corolla twin cam though, they have been the offical messers cars since 1988!

Mental Mickey

Sandwich wrote: »

You'll come in for a lot of criticism if you make comments about what is or isnt a safe speed for other people to drive at. Current thinking by many is that you, and you alone, should be able to decide what is a safe speed. If you keep at or below that, then you should not be penalised or criticised for doing it.

He's right though...............speeds like 155mph are only acceptable in one place............on racetracks, not bloody public roads. If that guy thought it was safe to drive at 155mph, he's a f**king MORON!!!!

astraboy

Sandwich wrote: »

You'll come in for a lot of criticism if you make comments about what is or isnt a safe speed for other people to drive at. Current thinking by many is that you, and you alone, should be able to decide what is a safe speed. If you keep at or below that, then you should not be penalised or criticised for doing it.

Yawn. When we made those comments the words "common sense" were used, and the comments were directed at dual carriageways and motorways where the risk of head on collisions with vehicles travelling the other way are slim to none. 155 mph on a wet 2 lane road is stupid, and also dangerous driving so speed limits don't even need to come into it, yet you drag the debate down to your level.

As for the traffic corps comment:

He pointed out that the traffic corps had increased its activity in the Barnesmore Gap, which is a stretch of road that has a history of being used by racers, and that hundreds of motorists were being caught for speeding there.

I wonder how many of these people caught were slightly over the limit? Bet its a nice straight road too if it was used for illegal racing, meaning the traffic corps was doing what it does best, shooting fish in a barrel during daylight hours. :rolleyes:

Rowley Birkin QC

astraboy wrote: »

I've seen far worse driving on the roads.

Where? In what way could it be worse??

Even if fcukwits want to drift on the road I would prefer to see it on a deserted roundabout at 2am, not on the main Cork/Dublin road in daylight hours where numerous accidents have happened.

astraboy

bigkev49 wrote: »

Where? In what way could it be worse??

Even if fcukwits want to drift on the road I would prefer to see it on a deserted roundabout at 2am, not on the main Cork/Dublin road in daylight hours where numerous accidents have happened.

Around cork city all the time! Not to mention when I'm driving to West Cork and there is an idiot oblivious to all around them in front of you. Bad driving does not mean the person has to be going fast. Also, I bet the guy was farily clued into what his car can and cannot do, and I doubt it was the first time he hung the arse of it out. He probably knew what he was doing. Still no excuse for that behaviour on a public road at that time of the day, there are plenty of drifting days on in tracks if he wants to do that sort of thing.

Mental Mickey

astraboy wrote: »

Around cork city all the time! Not to mention when I'm driving to West Cork and there is an idiot oblivious to all around them in front of you. Bad driving does not mean the person has to be going fast. Also, I bet the guy was farily clued into what his car can and cannot do, and I doubt it was the first time he hung the arse of it out. He probably knew what he was doing. Still no excuse for that behaviour on a public road at that time of the day, there are plenty of drifting days on in tracks if he wants to do that sort of thing.

Exactly. That kind of thing should not be allowed to happen on public roads, where totally innocent people are put at risk.

I hope that video got him into trouble??

:mad:

astraboy

Kind of hard to see the REG. Also, someone would need to actually report it, the cops don't spend all day waiting on youtube for idiots to post incriminating videos(I hope). The guy could also deny it was him driving.

E92

astraboy wrote: »

Yawn. When we made those comments the words "common sense" were used, and the comments were directed at dual carriageways and motorways where the risk of head on collisions with vehicles travelling the other way are slim to none. 155 mph on a wet 2 lane road is stupid, and also dangerous driving so speed limits don't even need to come into it, yet you drag the debate down to your level.

As for the traffic corps comment:

He pointed out that the traffic corps had increased its activity in the Barnesmore Gap, which is a stretch of road that has a history of being used by racers, and that hundreds of motorists were being caught for speeding there.

I wonder how many of these people caught were slightly over the limit? Bet its a nice straight road too if it was used for illegal racing, meaning the traffic corps was doing what it does best, shooting fish in a barrel during daylight hours. :rolleyes:

I agree 100% with this. Travelling at 240 km/h in unsuitable conditions is obviously not using common sense. I see no issue with 240 on an empty motorway though, but clearly if there was some traffic or it was on a even a good single carriageway then that is dangerous.

Cionád

E92 wrote: »

I agree 100% with this. Travelling at 240 km/h in unsuitable conditions is obviously not using common sense. I see no issue with 240 on an empty motorway though, but clearly if there was some traffic or it was on a even a good single carriageway then that is dangerous.

Yea, I agree, this case is by no means suitable.

Bunnyhopper

The original video should be available for viewing here (and - with any luck - for download in a QuickTime- and iPod-friendly .mp4 format).

(Apologies for the duplicate post, but it seems relevant here and in the Donegal thread.)

E92

In fairness that road is actually very good for a single carriageway.

It would have been very dangerous of course if the driver had to overtake.

I saw the speedo and it looked like if it was a JDM car he was onbly doing 110 or so.

If it was an Irish spec mph car then it looked like it was around 90 mph(~
145 km/h) which is a lot slower than 240 km/h obviously.

That wasn't that bad. The speedo didn't slow anything like 240 km/h anyway.

Unless of course they actually said on the video that they were doing 240, I don't know because the computer I'm on has no speakers! I'll check it when I get home later!

Tea drinker

Sandwich wrote: »

You'll come in for a lot of criticism if you make comments about what is or isnt a safe speed for other people to drive at. Current thinking by many is that you, and you alone, should be able to decide what is a safe speed. If you keep at or below that, then you should not be penalised or criticised for doing it.

I guess you never make mistakes? Only the other eejits on the road :rolleyes:
Even if you have papal infallability you still can meet your end when someone else makes a mistake, or simply does something unexpected, never mind a failure on the car.

Alun

E92 wrote: »

I saw the speedo and it looked like if it was a JDM car he was onbly doing 110 or so.

If it was an Irish spec mph car then it looked like it was around 90 mph(~
145 km/h) which is a lot slower than 240 km/h obviously.

I watched the video very briefly too, and fast forwarded through much of it, but purely subjectively, and speaking as someone who has driven (legally) at those kinds of speeds many times, I have to say that I too have my doubts. It just didn't look as fast as they were claiming it to be to be honest.

jetski

I didnt see "two hands off the steering wheel" ?

Youtube version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fM5JaWQWTk

Sherifu

It's irrelevant where his hands were. The guy is a moron and should never drive again. There is no defence for this idiot.

jetski

Course its relevant.

wasent it stated in the independent "the excited driver momentarily removes his hands" where there is no footage of that, so how could they know? id also like to know how they know the driver was excited..... usuall crap printed by papers/Anita Guidera

astraboy

For all the holy marys saying the guy should never drive again etc, he did'nt kill anyone, or even hurt anyone. Yes, he put himself into a position where there was a higher possibility of injuries or death in the event of a crash, and while his actions were foolish, there are far worse crimes going unpunished or even having the criminals let off easily. This was a case of a young guy being a foolish young guy and pushing his subaru too fast for the road. Yet he has'nt hurt anyone. Granted this is the sort of behavior that will likely make this guy top story on the RTE news some Saturday after he drives into a tree in Donegal Friday night, but the hang em and flog em brigade are a bit OTT in this case.

He broke(ok SMASHED) the speedlimit but the newspaper exegratted the speed and how dangerous his actions were. To be honest anything up to 100 mph on a good road(read, motorway) is not that fast in a well equipped car. The road in question was wet and a 2 lane road so not suitable for the speed IMO however.

Sherifu

I'm not a 'holy mary'. I do think he's an idiot and very lucky nothing happened.

astraboy

Sherifu wrote: »

I'm not a 'holy mary'. I do think he's an idiot and very lucky nothing happened.

Accidents can happen at any speed. Saying the guy should never drive again is a over the top and I'm sticking by that statement.
I'm not saying he should go unpunished, but as usual a case of a young fella being a young fella has been blown up to high heaven by the media. You'd swear he was murdering nuns in the video the way some people go on.

There is a time and a place for testing the top speed of your car and that was not it I'll agree 100%.

Sherifu

The place is a race track where he's the only one who's putting his life at risk.

astraboy

Sherifu wrote: »

The place is a race track where he's the only one who's putting his life at risk.

Even if he did it on a deserted motorway it would'nt be so bad. There was a good few oncoming cars in the vid so the road was not deserted. Love the way the media blow it far out of proportion however, without a sane debate on speed limits and road safety in this country, road safety is going to go nowhere.

One other issue. In the UK the availability of track days where you can bring your car and drive it as fast as you like in a controlled environment, are widespread. We only really have Mondello and the number of trackdays is very small and they are expensive too. Maybe more of these events would benefit everyone, if only to let people see what the limits of their own driving and car are.

Andrewf20

..and in a similar vain, 380km/hr on public roads. At night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uaSUcUhMLI&feature=related

MarkR

Sandwich wrote: »

You'll come in for a lot of criticism if you make comments about what is or isnt a safe speed for other people to drive at. Current thinking by many is that you, and you alone, should be able to decide what is a safe speed. If you keep at or below that, then you should not be penalised or criticised for doing it.

I don't see anyone even coming close to criticizing me, bar you. Whose current thinking exactly? Because I haven't heard the RSA, gardai, politicians, judicial services, or people in general making this claim. Just you and your mates in the pub? In germany on a autobahn, with no oncoming traffic and no junctions, in good weather, with a good driver and a well serviced car, then yes, this speed would be acceptable. On a dreary wet day with an inexperienced driver on a road with people passing a few feet away in the other direction is reckless, pure and simple. There aren't any roads in Ireland designed for that speed.

astraboy

MarkR wrote: »

I don't see anyone even coming close to criticizing me, bar you. Whose current thinking exactly? Because I haven't heard the RSA, gardai, politicians, judicial services, or people in general making this claim. Just you and your mates in the pub? In germany on a autobahn, with no oncoming traffic and no junctions, in good weather, with a good driver and a well serviced car, then yes, this speed would be acceptable. On a dreary wet day with an inexperienced driver on a road with people passing a few feet away in the other direction is reckless, pure and simple. There aren't any roads in Ireland designed for that speed.

Guys being a clown, ignore him. Hes always trying to rally up those of us on this forum that believe most speed limits do little for road safety. We have presented him with arguments grounded in reality and based on hard facts, yet he cannot bear to see his precious speed limits criticized or the law itself questioned.

Sherifu

astraboy wrote: »

Guys being a clown, ignore him.

Indeed, I didn't find his post worthy of a response.

D_murph

Sherifu wrote: »

Indeed, I didn't find his post worthy of a response.

X2^ people should not dignify his BS with a response. he might go away when he realises that he cant get a rise out of anyone :rolleyes: