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Blimey! I must remeber this excuse next time I'm stopped for speeding.
- Thread starter Cadiz Seagull
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BensGrandad
New member
Our car a Kia has MPH on the outer ring with KPH in the inner as is the case with most imported cars. Would not German cars be the reverse KPH outer and MPH on the inner?
Megazone
On his last warning
It's even worse that it was in KPH.
He must have thought he was nearly driving 200 miles an hour?
He must have thought he was nearly driving 200 miles an hour?
Eh? 101kph = 63mph
grubbyhands
Well-known member
Didn't the fact that everything else around him seemed to be going backwards ring any bells. Just goes to show what you can get away with IF you can afford to hire a top lawyer. What a c*ck!
StonehamPark
#Brighton-Nil
His Solicitor's excuse was that the speedo was reading in Kph so Toure read the speed wrong.
He was doing 101mph so the speedo would be reading 162kmh.
So Toure either knew he was doing 162kmh by looking at the speedo or thought he was doing 162mph.
So the solicitor's excuse is just ridiculous.
Ninja Elephant
Doctor Elephant
- Feb 16, 2009
- 18,855
I made the same mistake to be fair.
How has he gotten away with this?! Whatever the calculations, is he claiming a maths fail?!
BensGrandad
New member
I took it the solicitor said he took the reading of 101 to be 101kph not 101mph but If he was doing 101 mph and thought that it was 101kph did he not notice the difference as I am sure most normal drivers would but then I forgot he is a footballer.
Megazone
On his last warning
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
I think his lawyer is claiming he thought he was doing 101kph which is about 65mph. Which is about as big a chinny reckon as you could get. NOBODY could be thick enough to be doing over a ton and think its 65mph, not even a footballer.
That's why lawyers are paid fortunes I suppose.
Megazone
On his last warning
I made the same mistake to be fair.
How has he gotten away with this?! Whatever the calculations, is he claiming a maths fail?!
You didn't. Notters has got it wrong.
He escaped being banned so it wasn't that ridiculous
Cadiz Seagull
Grey bearded old man
- Thread starter
- #13
Do you think he had the same solicitor as Oscar Pistorious? He managed to persuade a court that Oscar was just unlucky and it could have happened to anybody
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
I made the same mistake to be fair.
How has he gotten away with this?! Whatever the calculations, is he claiming a maths fail?!
He pleaded guilty, got six penalty points and paid a massive fine of £1665. Automatic bans for driving over 100mph, but he was 1mph over so not banned due to the kph mixup.
BensGrandad
New member
Algernon
Well-known member
Nothing to do with being able to hire a top lawyer.
More to do with coming up against a starstruck Magistrate and Prosecutor.
More to do with coming up against a starstruck Magistrate and Prosecutor.
studio150
Well-known member
Why wasn't he also charged for driving a foreign registered vehicle which has clearly been imported on a permanent basis given his contract with City and therefore should have been registered as a UK vehicle.
Also if it has the wrong speedometer than the car must fail a type approval test and therefore should be impounded.
Also if it has the wrong speedometer than the car must fail a type approval test and therefore should be impounded.
middletoenail
Well-known member
How much do you think he gets paid? I thought he was on something like 200k a week?
Vegas Seagull
New member
- Jul 10, 2009
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Safer in a top of the range Porsche @ 100 than some 10 year old rust bucket steering wheel shaking @ 70
Megazone
On his last warning
Give the man credit. It wasn't long ago his whole team forgot to send him a birthday card. An obvious under lying reason to why he was driving so dangerously.
Hope he pulls through.
Hope he pulls through.