Woman in BMW caught at 214 km/h

[James]

A Johannesburg woman was arrested for speeding on the N1 south in Midrand over the weekend, Johannesburg metro police said on Sunday.

The 33-year-old woman was pulled over after she was clocked driving at 214 km/h in her BMW, spokesman Wayne Minnaar said.

"She told officers that she was in a hurry to get to her home in Florida as she works as a site manager and was working until late."

Minnaar said the woman would appear...read more here: Woman in BMW caught at 214 km/h

 

[simon]

214 is way too fast to be driving on roads, don't want that person to go to jail, but the car should be confiscated and license should be suspended for 10 years. Should she be in violation of that then something more serious should happen.

 

[Graal]

Nah, I think jail is the perfect place for her. Let's face it, speeding is bad enough, but if you drive 214 then it shows you have absolutely no regard for the other road users. At 214 if anything unexpected happens you're almost certain to cause an accident which endangers other peoples' lives, which you are definitely aware of when you drive at those speeds.

I say give no mercy to people driving at ludicrous speed.

 

[Glordit]

214 is way too fast to be driving on roads, don't want that person to go to jail, but the car should be confiscated and license should be suspended for 10 years. Should she be in violation of that then something more serious should happen.

She'll be driving with in 2 hours of loosing her license.

 

[simon]

Nah, I think jail is the perfect place for her. Let's face it, speeding is bad enough, but if you drive 214 then it shows you have absolutely no regard for the other road users. At 214 if anything unexpected happens you're almost certain to cause an accident which endangers other peoples' lives, which you are definitely aware of when you drive at those speeds.

I say give no mercy to people driving at ludicrous speed.

where do you drive the line at ludicrous speeds though? Yes 214 is way over the limit, but putting her in jail doesn't help much when they are so overcrowded with serious criminals who have killed already.

She'll be driving with in 2 hours of loosing her license.

Well I know there is a lot of rubbish on the side of the N1 etc, she could drive a dirt cart or a bike with a bin to clean up the litter on the roadside for the next 3 months for a few hours a day? it helps to put a big sign on her saying "I drove 100km over the speedlimit, now I pick up your rubbish on the roadside". I for one would throw a tomato at her

 

[Fivel]

where do you drive the line at ludicrous speeds though? Yes 214 is way over the limit, but putting her in jail doesn't help much when they are so overcrowded with serious criminals who have killed already.

So what would you do with someone who effectively waves her middle finger at the law? The problem in our country is that the law is broken with with little or no consequence.

 

[simon]

So what would you do with someone who effectively waves her middle finger at the law? The problem in our country is that the law is broken with with little or no consequence.

basically what I said above, comunity service, car(s) confiscated, fines, probation and license revoked for speeding at least. If she was drunk well that would be a different story.

 

[HavocXphere]

meh...Germany has drivers doing that regularly...hell you can find 300kmph. And yet they have few incidents.

They don't have shtty drivers, shtty cars and shtty roads though...and managing the whole mess is a traffic department with a #1 priority being extracting revenues.

Yes occasionally someone will wrap a BMW around a tree and die. But lets focus on the head on taxis collisions with 15+ dead first.

Honest I should start selling common sense in a bottle...

 

[Graal]

Let's see. How about reckless endangerment.

Reckless endangerment: A person commits the crime of reckless endangerment if the person recklessly engages in conduct which creates a substantial risk of serious physical injury to another person. “Reckless” conduct is conduct that exhibits a culpable disregard of foreseeable consequences to others from the act or omission involved. The accused need not intentionally cause a resulting harm. The ultimate question is whether, under all the circumstances, the accused’s conduct was of that heedless nature that made it actually or imminently dangerous to the rights or safety of others.

Sounds like the definition fits. So when someone shoots a gun in the middle of a mall and gets locked up for reckless endangerment, it's fine, but when someone does almost double the allowed speed limit, endangering other peoples' lives on the road, she should be let off the hook with something as simple as community service? I really don't think so.

Anyway, as far as I know anything over 30km/h over the speed limit is grounds for being arrested if you get caught.

 

[simon]

Let's see. How about reckless endangerment.



Sounds like the definition fits. So when someone shoots a gun in the middle of a mall and gets locked up for reckless endangerment, it's fine, but when someone does almost double the allowed speed limit, endangering other peoples' lives on the road, she should be let off the hook with something as simple as community service? I really don't think so.

Anyway, as far as I know anything over 30km/h over the speed limit is grounds for being arrested if you get caught.

Firing a gun in a shopping mall is almost guaranteed to get somebody hurt.
I am just glad this lady didn't hurt anybody.
What I am saying is prison isn't a nice place, not many people I would want to send there. For people who speed I do think that there are more constructive ways for correction then to send them to prison.
If the person goes to prison, likely they will be raped, abused and could become a more serious criminal because that is prison life. On the outside they will lose their job, likely their house etc etc.
Doing community service and having their car taken away on the other hand means government gets R100 000 (sale of ladies car) to go into better policing, she gets community service so roads get cleaned up, if there is signage others will know what will happen should they speed and get caught, her license gets suspended so she legally has to take a long hard look at what she did before she gets behind a wheel again.

 

[The Joker]

Driving 100Km/h over the speed limit shows your life and the ones around you mean nothing to you.
I reckon a hefty fine R30 000 in this case should be enforced, she should also be added to a list where if she is caught speeding again her car gets impounded for 90 days + above fine.

Jail time for speeding in SA isn't something that'll happen in the near future. Although I reckon if you do these speeds you are pretty much attempting to murder someone.

 

[McT]

214 is way too fast to be driving on roads, don't want that person to go to jail, but the car should be confiscated and license should be suspended for 10 years. Should she be in violation of that then something more serious should happen.

I like your line of thinking. Maybe a two year suspension, but if the same offence is committed within a specific period, then a longer suspension must be enforced.

As a part of the penalty the offender should be made to do community service as well as attend a defensive driving programme. Not advanced drivers ; defensive driving.

Nah, I think jail is the perfect place for her. Let's face it, speeding is bad enough, but if you drive 214 then it shows you have absolutely no regard for the other road users. At 214 if anything unexpected happens you're almost certain to cause an accident which endangers other peoples' lives, which you are definitely aware of when you drive at those speeds.

I say give no mercy to people driving at ludicrous speed.

Jails are already over "stocked" with miscreants. Taxpayers pay for each of these lowlifes. Jag should be a last resort, maybe?

She'll be driving with in 2 hours of loosing her license.

And that is where enforcement comes into it. One day when our Metros & SAPS are operating efficiently and not taking bribes, they will eventually catch up with her, and that is when impact of penalties & value of fines are hiked.