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85% Of Car Drivers Break 20mph Speed Limits, Reveals U.K.’s Department For Transport
I believe it 100%.
I started riding with a Garmin bike radar and installed an app that tells me exactly how fast a car is going when it passes, and the majority are over the speed limit.
Just the other day, in a 60 km/h zone, I clocked two cars going 125 km/h.
If I thought for a second that police would charge these drivers using photo/video evidence, I’d fork over the $500 to get the radar with a camera built-in and report each and every speeding driver that passes me.
In Denmark we have the lovely new law that if you drive more than 100% over the speed limit and over 100 kmh or drive over 200 kmh at all or drunk driving with over 2‰ they confiscate the car and you are not getting it back at all. They confiscate the car regadles of who owns the car (with very few exceptions) and that is also if it is leased. So far since when the law started they have confiscated over 2000 cars in two years. It’s my favourite law of all laws right now. The fine for driving crazy is also nicely proportional to your income and it removes the car so the person cannot just drive without license afterwards.
@kkarhan@mstdn.social@TDCN @Showroom7561 Personally, I think banning.someone from driving hurts them harder than loosing a vehicle, as one can't just get a new driving license - the loophole that allowed one to just make a new license in another EU member state has been closed for those barred from (re)issue of a license.
@TDCN @Showroom7561 that being said penalites should always be proportional to one's total aggregated income.
Trust me they are still banned from driving for a year or more if this law triggeres
@TDCN that's quite low.
People speeding 100% over limit usually get barred for life from attaining any permit unless they get medically certified to be able to drive.
And even then they'd likely not face charges for speeding alone but literally charges for attempted homicide by gross neglect and recklessness.
I mean if one's driving like 100km/h on regular city roads they don't just loose their license but face serious jailtime.
And I think that's more than justified.
@TDCN Like there's difference between "driving fast" and "being an antisocial asshole and seemingly wanting to commit vehicular assault against any random person that happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
I said “or more” because I don’t know the details. Depending on what you did you can get banned for much longer or even face jail time if it’s very severe. It’s individual and depends on the offence