Speeding in France

http://minilien.fr/a0jc7r

24-year-old bloke clocked at 118 mph, tries to evade plod at 162 mph.

Gets nicked. Licence revoked, bike confiscated. Due in front of the
beak in June. At those speeds, he's looking at porridge.

D.

 

Is he mainly in the shit for the speeding, or the uberspeeding while
trying to evade capture?

 

191 km/h (118 mph) is 61 km/h (38 mph) over the speed limit, and thus
takes him into 'delit' territory, which is a 'minor' criminal offence,
rather than a moving traffic offence. He was looking at six points on
his licence and a >= 1,500? fine, and/or a three-year suspension of his
licence.

Failing to stop (to 'obtemperer' as we call it) is a criminal offence,
IIRC the penalty is >= 3 months inside and >= 3,750?. The excess speed
will compound this ('mise en danger de la vie d'autrui' == 'placing the
life of another person in danger').

D.

 

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Sorry...

<= 1,500¤

D.

 

I would also speculate that if he managed to do 162mph, then he wasn't
on a standard limp Froggie-issue 106bhp machine, in which case he's
got some interesting 'non-homologation' issues pending.

 

Flashé? Haven't they got a word of their own?

 

Rubbish

My 1999 CBR600FX made about that sort of power and had a top speed of
162mph

 

"Ridiculizing Gendarmerie fleet of Renault/Peugeot/Citroen" is considered a
crime?

 

There's a real world difference of up to 10mph between the absolute,
absolute maximum that a skinny little pro road tester will wring out
of a carefully set-up and blueprinted factory bike, and what Joe
Grenouille will manage on the road.

OTOH, who knows if the gendarmes' radar was accurate?

 

What's more intriguing is that 'conventional wisdom' in France held that
radars were ineffective against motorcycles, as the latter have no flat
surface at the front off which Laura Noder can bounce her radar.

Once plod were in pursuit, however, I suspect that their onboard video
camera and speedos did the deed, and so the initial reading will
probably not be relevant.

D.

 

Well on my emasculated FJR1300, I saw an _indicated_ [1] 260 km/h, which
equates to 162 mph. Let's say 145 mph true. Is it beyond the realm of
imagination that a hypersports machine could hit a real 160 ?

D.

[1] I emphasise: _indicated_

 

We're too busy searching for a French translation of 'entrepreneur'.

D.

 

Ask George'


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Hah!

 

Foreign-built bike, probably.