Dumb Niece - What would you do ?

[krushavik]

Lets hope he's lean't his lesson, its always some one else gets killed.

 

[darkstar]

Is it? even if the motorway was empty, he's still putting Fossy's niece's life at risk.

Driving at 100 mph is no more dangerous than driving at 80 mph on an empty road in my opinion. The car is quite manageable in a straight line.

 

[al78]

Driving at 100 mph is no more dangerous than driving at 80 mph on an empty road in my opinion. The car is quite manageable in a straight line.

Ah, but can you guarantee that the road will remain empty for the duration of the 100 mph stunt.

 

[longers]

I used to drive like a front bottom, grew out of soon enough but it was a massive thrill at the time, which is why I did it.
I wasn't so keen on taking risks with others in the car as I didn't want lack of skill on my part to put anyone else at risk. Once I realised that this extended to others on the road as well I reigned it in. I managed to calm down a friend by telling him he might meet me coming the other way on a bike and have no chance of avoiding me, and he was what I'd class as a very good driver.

 

[Silver Fox]

The first bit of non hysterical advice on this thread. We were all young once

Indeed we were.

Take it you've never seen the slaughter and carnage that results from road crashes caused by excessive speed then.

 

[GrasB]

Driving at 100 mph is no more dangerous than driving at 80 mph on an empty road in my opinion. The car is quite manageable in a straight line.

Anyone can point the car in a direction & hope it stays in a straight line. If you actually need to control the car the difference between 80 & 100mph is huge in terms of control finesse. Not to mention in something like a low-end Corsa a road imperfection like a subsided road surface either side of expansion joint can use up almost of the suspensions dynamic capacity, that capacity is referenced to the momentum the car is carrying (mass x velocity) & a 25% increase in momentum is very significant.

 

[dellzeqq]

Driving at 100 mph is no more dangerous than driving at 80 mph on an empty road in my opinion. The car is quite manageable in a straight line.

the news from the police in Devon and Cornwall, is that the emptiness of the road is neither here nor there. Young men crash cars at high speed on their ownsome - other than their passengers.

http://www.leopardfi...e-investigators was sad watching. Apparently it was miserable in the making as well. We've impressed on The Kid that the greatest risk she runs is being in a car with boys who are intent on having (drving) fun.

I think, Fossyant, you've done a good deed. Take a bow!

 

[ColinJ]

Take it you've never seen the slaughter and carnage that results from road crashes caused by excessive speed then.

There is a hill down Rossendale Road from the traffic lights at Manchester Road on the western fringes of Burnley which motorists often drive down at excessive speeds, so there is often a police patrol car lurking at the bottom to catch speeding motorists.

Years ago, one of my colleagues was caught on that hill doing about 20 mph over the limit and was stopped by the police further down the road. They booked him and then gave him a road safety lecture. He told me that it was in-one-ear-and-out-the-other until the policeman picked up a scrapbook of photographs taken at serious RTA scenes locally and suggested that he take a good look at them. After a few pages of severed limbs and squashed heads he got the message...

 

[Gromit]

Something else you could show your Niece http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/8781617.Family_pay_tribute_to_15_year_old_Natalia_Wiley/

The 18 year old lad survived but his 15 year old female passenger died. The price of showing off.