Sell your bike, delete your GTAM account, give away your gear and cut up your licence... We all speed.
It's a matter of degrees, don't you agree?
The stunt-driving legislation is about
excessive speeding, way beyond what would be considered a reasonable, garden variety 'oopsie' of even 20-30 km/h.
A lot of people are guilty of that level of transgression, myself included.
97 over? Not so very many, i'd think. I've only seen that rate of speed on the drag-strip, in the past 10 years. Prior to that in the few times that i did rates like that on public roads, dumb dumb dumb.. if i'd gotten nailed for that on public roadways, i'd deserve every penny of the penalty for that level of stupidity.
Oh ya... who the **** would step out into the road when a bike is screaming at 177km/h?
You'd be surprised.
I've been nailed while i was coming out of my own driveway many years ago, by some ****** doing well in excess of the limit, on a lightly travelled road. Bingo, Bango, Boingo, two vehicles written off, and a car into a house foundation. Accident reconstruction proved that the limit was exceeded by so much, that there was no reasonable expectation that i could have predicted the meeting of metal, while in the act of pulling out of the driveway.
All it takes is one kid, single-mindedly chasing a ball, a dog, or his friends, to prove that it can happen, with tragic results.
I hope this isn't the Predictor for the Coming of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, but i agree with Turbodish in this case. 172 was written for cases like this, whether we like it or not.
