Those sort of speeds should be a permanent driving ban or a lengthy one with a harder than normal test to be passed after.

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I blame the car manufacturers and the government so tempting to have a moment of madness it only takes a few seconds to reach these speeds

140mph can be achieved in perfect safety in the right conditions. This really is a 'so what'? moment....

No it's not. It's against the law whatever your personal opinion.

Let me state at outset that I do not support, condone or, needless to say, participate in driving at such speeds on our roads.

There are a number of statements in this thread that deserve comment.

Firstly it is total idiocy to say that it is impossible to react to to situations when driving at 140 mph and that representative should be asked to provide evidence to support his ridiculous statement. Has he never seen motor car and cycle racing, has he never driven on the autobahn in Germany or watched Top Gear etc.?

It is no excuse but it is an issue that modern motor cars make it far too easy to drive too fast in a whole range of situations some of which do not need high speeds but just plain bad and dangerous driving but current policing policy or speed cameras will do nothing to identify them or improve driving standards.

Our motorways are NOT 70 mph motorways they are designed to allow far higher speeds in safety but have a random 70mph limit imposed on them. Anybody that has driven in countries where higher speeds are allowed, e.g. most of Europe, can testify to this and some are not as well designed but have no blanket limit imposed e.g. Germany.

Having passed my driving test in the 60s in the rain with hand signals and had the pleasure of driving on our roads before the nanny state plastered the country with speed limits, cameras and road signs, all be it in cars that would barely break 70 mph, I cannot understand why we continue to waste money building motorways and then prevent them being used in the way they were designed for. Ordinary multi-carriage way highways would be far cheaper and sufficient and it is only because a reasonable proportion of drivers push the speed limits to the maximum that motorways work today as well as they do.

I have no doubt that some of the responses on here are from drivers who think it is perfectly correct to drive in the overtaking lanes of multi-carriage way highways when they are not overtaking but that's another subject

There are many debates/arguments around various sites about the 70mph limit. I personally think 70mph is fine but we are all entitled to our opinion.

At the moment 70 means 80 or 90 to some but raising it to a modest 80 would likely mean 90 or 100 to some with all the inherent dangers.

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Agreed. Even with the 70 limit far too many motorists drive far too close together resulting in the sort of carnage that occurred a week or so ago.

Just imagine how bad it would have been if traffic had been traveling faster.

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