420mph... in a taxi?

If only our local taxi firm could achieve the speeds that Welsh cabbie Tom Matthews has been accused of.

 

Matthews was fined £60 and given three penalty points for winding up his 12-year-old Vauxhall Cavalier to... 420mph. The incident was recorded by a speed camera.

 

"There has been a printing error," said Matthews. "If they insist I was going that fast, I should be a Grand Prix driver."

 

The Mid & South Wales Safety Camera Partnership has apologised and blamed 'employee error'.

 

http://www.topgear.com/content/news/stories/1477/

I would get an expert opinion on the top speed of a Vauxhall Cavalier then I would have taken them to court and plead not guilty. Then claim costs when they can't prove the offence. But I hate Taxi drivers, I wonder what speed he really was going... over the limit :rolleyes:

I would get an expert opinion on the top speed of a Vauxhall Cavalier then I would have taken them to court and plead not guilty. Then claim costs when they can't prove the offence. But I hate Taxi drivers' date=' I wonder what speed he really was going... over the limit :rolleyes:[/quote']

 

I would put money on it being 42 MPH, over the limit.

 

But still...

 

...it's like the brick wall being caught doing 50 mph, or the cyclist caught doing 89 mph.