I have only gone 172mph once and in a Porsche many many years ago. Stupid and crazy but I was a kid not that it is an excuse.

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Britain’s fastest convicted speeder was jailed for 10 weeks today after police caught him doing 172mph in a Porsche 911 turbo on a rural A-road.

Tim Brady, a delivery driver, became the fastest speeder ever caught by a British speed trap when he admitted one count of dangerous driving.

He had been at the wheel a £98,000 3.6-litre Porsche 911 Turbo when he was clocked by a constable holding a speed gun on the A420 near Abingdon in Oxfordshire, at nearly nearly two and a half times the 70mph limit.

The 33-year-old, from Harrow, north London, had taken the vehicle without permission from Helphire, his then workplace, a luxury car hire firm with a base at Kingston Bagpuize, near where he was caught, Oxford Crown Court heard.
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Jailing Brady, Judge David Morton Jack said: “Your driving was criminally self-indulgent and utterly thoughtless of the danger you might be creating for the innocent.”

The previous record for the fastest car clocked by a speed camera to result in a conviction was 156mph - in 2003 by Aberdeen car dealer Jason McAllister on the A90 between Aberdeen and Dundee.

The court heard Brady nagged his boss Bill Maclachan the previous day to let him take the sports car for a spin but was repeatedly told no.

But Brady returned the next day, his day off, and took the vehicle out, claiming Mr Maclachan “did not say no to that idea.”

John Reilly, for Brady, said in mitigation that although he had been refused permission to drive the vehicle, employees at the firm often drove such cars.

“It was not company policy but sometimes blind eyes were turned,” he told the court. “It was almost an allurement that went with the job.”

Police were attending to another motorist who had been doing 115mph on the same stretch of road when Pc Peter Billingham clocked Brady going faster still with his speed gun.

When caught, Brady said: “Oh s***, oh s***, I’ve lost my job,” the court heard. He immediately resigned from his post.

Experts said a Porsche of this type, travelling as it was at 77 metres per second, would have needed 501 metres in which to stop.

Brady, who was carrying a colleague at the time, managed to stop in 681 metres, the car wobbling due to the heavy braking, police said.

Among the hazards on the stretch of dual carriageway were a staggered crossroads, parking lay-by areas and a pedestrian access.

Brady will have to sit an extended driving test before taking to the road in the future.

His parents, with whom he has been living in Harrow since losing his job, were in court to see him sent down.

A spokesman for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents said after Brady was sentence: “This was an absolutely terrifying piece of driving.

“Our roads are not race tracks or for breaking speed records. It is fortunate the police were there to take action before he ended up killing himself or someone else.

“Through his own selfishness, in what appears to be a lust for speed, he has completely disregarded the safety of others on the road.

“Even if he thinks he is capable of controlling a car safely at more than 170mph, he is making no allowance for the possible behaviour of other road users. They would never expect a car to be approaching them at that speed whether they were pedestrians or motorists. No-one would have a chance of surviving if there had been a crash.”

 

he was hauling a** it could have ended badly though if someone had been on that road

 

The last paragraph says it all.

My cousin is a Federal Highway Patrol officer here in Mexico, and he has pulled over his fair share of vehicles going over 150 mph. He remarks to the drivers, even though they claim they can handle the speed:

1. The speed limit is the law
2. Other drivers may not be able to react
3. Mexican roads are the pits

Fine here is about $50 USD and they hold your driver's license (Americans included) until you pay up at the Highway Patrol Station. However, unlike American state troopers, Mexican patrolmen stay on the side of the road out in the open in plain view and clock your speed.

 

sometimes i see local police sitting on their bikes with a radar gun in full view and still catching people.

 

What'd they catch him with??? Im sure they could have tracked him with a helicopter...

 

Actually, most helicopters will have trouble going that fast...

 

rofl.

As for how they caught him, they probably just radioed ahead to another cop to catch him at one of the inevitable roundabouts (traffic circles) that break up sections of 'dual carriageway' (divided highway).

 

Note, "He immediately resigned from his post", he didn't force them to fire him. I'm guessing he just pulled over.

 

Sounded like fun!

everything but the jail and losing a job part.lol

 

And how about the insurance rate and cost of fine?? Those will not be pleasant either.

 

What's "fun" about reckless driving? He could have killed himself and/or someone else. I'd call it a warped sense of "fun" at best.

 

Wow I wish I could see the look on that cops face when he saw his gun.

 

Where the hell can you go 175 mph in britain?

You can't drink tea at that speed you fool!