Chased a 2008 mustang gt with my patrol car.

[chevyguy45]

It all depends on the officer. If its just 5 over i usually will not pull someone over. We've even been told on our busy highways if the flow of traffic is going 5-10mph over we should let it be. It would cause more traffic problems to go racing through traffic to catch someone barely exceeding the limit.

[Doug_Scott]

It all depends on the officer. If its just 5 over i usually will not pull someone over. We've even been told on our busy highways if the flow of traffic is going 5-10mph over we should let it be. It would cause more traffic problems to go racing through traffic to catch someone barely exceeding the limit.

 

I would imagine if you picked one out of a many traveling along at 10 over would get you the "why me, everyone else was doing it" argument. When you get that argument, what answer do you give? The cops that I know use the "when you go fishing, do you catch all the fish?" answer.

 

Going back to another post, it is not really the speed that causes issues, it is the speed difference that creates the issues. Drivers running at the speed limit of 60mph in a large pack are expecting all cars around them are also happy at 60mph. The one big change on Ontario roads is the effect of the 50kmph over law. Used to be pretty common to have cars/bikes running at close to 100mph across the top of Toronto on the 401. Made it near impossible to changes lanes safely some nights.

[chevyguy45]

Thats what we say. We normally have someone "leading the pack" they come by speeding so everyone behind them speeds up. So we try to get the first car to let everyone know. Had three cars yesterday chasing each other on the highway running about 100mph. One of the guys said he was only doing it because they were. The guy driving the second car said he did it because he was on the phone with the police and he needed to get close for the license plate.

[MikeNH]

 

Used to be pretty common to have cars/bikes running at close to 100mph across the top of Toronto on the 401. Made it near impossible to changes lanes safely some nights.

I've heard that 401 used to be a raceway before too. The 100 km/h (62 MPH) just seems so slow. Most of the area is rural, the highway is in excellent condition so one should easily be able to run 75-80 on roads like that. Most people seem to do that already anyhow. Of course once you get near Toronto it all changes as traffic around the city is horrible sometimes.

[Doug_Scott]

Thats what we say. We normally have someone "leading the pack" they come by speeding so everyone behind them speeds up. So we try to get the first car to let everyone know. Had three cars yesterday chasing each other on the highway running about 100mph. One of the guys said he was only doing it because they were. The guy driving the second car said he did it because he was on the phone with the police and he needed to get close for the license plate.

 

Should be very easy for the second car to prove his story. Could he prove it? Since he must have call the cops(cops aren't going to call him to ask for his assistance) a simple press of the redial button on his cellphone should do it. How do you keep a straight face when the younger generation drivers(driver in the second car had to be under 25, and likely even being under 20) come up with some of the stories you get?

 

My mother used to have a 1964 Galaxie 500XL back in early 70's. Car had the 390 engine and no exhaust from h-pipe back. She got stopped for speeding (80 in a 60, mph back then), cop walked up to her window and asked (actually yelled) "where is your muffler?", my mother said without missing a beat, "in the trunk". Officer then asked if she knew how fast she was going, she said "80", he asked her why are you going so fast with your child in the car(me)? She said, again without missing a beat, I am almost out of gas, so I was hurrying home before I ran out. No ticket for either offence, and no discussion either. The officer just looked skyward and sent us on our way. Those were the good old days of living in a small rural town in Ontario Canada.

[chevyguy45]

No he didn't. Our 911 call's or even non emergency call's will show up in the system. I just told him he didn't and yeah he was only 18.

[chevyguy45]

It can be difficult to stay serious with some people. They are still so immature even people in their 30's these days.

[Beer Belly]

Top Gear (TV Show) recently did a comparison, the Crown Vic didn't fair too well

[Doug_Scott]

Top Gear (TV Show) recently did a comparison, the Crown Vic didn't fair too well

 

Compared to what? Which Top Gear, original or US one?

[chevyguy45]

It was top gear u.s. And to be fair they were using 98-2002 models which were the worst accelerating and handling crown vics. In 2001 they switched to performance improved heads which gave more power. Then in 2003 the entire frame was changed along with better breaks and better steering. The last performance update was in 04 with a mercury marauder like airbox. Its all little changes but if you take a last year crown vic (2011) it will outdo a 1998 hands down. Those were some miserable driving cars for me.

[Beer Belly]

It was actually at the beginning of a more recent batch of Pursuit Cars they played with, where they had 3 Crown Vics chasing a Mini Van.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rCCEn_lHUs

[chevyguy45]

Alot of that show is BS. I have chased cars that were much quicker than the van and kept up. I dont even like crown vics especially compared to my charger but they could have atleast used the newer models. All they were doing was building hype for the new cars.

[Amiodynski]

In IL, if your doing 55 on the Highway (posted speedlimit) your going to get rear ended! You have to do atleast 15 over to stay out of the way. Most people do 20+over and are still getting blown off the road. It's crazy, but it's true

 

 

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[Doug_Scott]

In IL, if your doing 55 on the Highway (posted speedlimit) your going to get rear ended! You have to do atleast 15 over to stay out of the way. Most people do 20+over and are still getting blown off the road. It's crazy, but it's true

 

 

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It actually is not true at all. After the first accident the highway would be stopped in both directions for miles while people gawked. Now no one can even do the speed limit.

 

In Canada we have multilane highways that prevent being rear ended by the blind faster drivers.

 

Using the logic of speeding to stay safe is one of those that comes from someone attempting to use humour as an excuse. I seriously doubt you have ever even seen an accident caused by someone doing the speed limit and being over-run by a pack of speeding cars. Even if you were, the impact would be exactly the same as being hit while sitting still by a car racing by at 15mph.

[StinkyCheese]

135 on I4? I call BS! Everyone knows I4 is a parking lot :-p