A picture from the past...………….(March 2015)////////////
Little Zed on the Prairie...…..
Little Zed on the Prairie...…..
LITTLE CAR ON THE PRAIRIE
- Thread starter FRANKIE
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Wow Frankie you can see for miles, not a cop in sight, I hope you opened her up????????
Happy new year Frankie
Mike
Happy new year Frankie
Mike
Smooth road surface also.
Maybe the Cops were behind him, who was driving at that point, I'm guessing it was Huw?
Tony.
It was @GazHyde who, when he first saw this picture, said that the road ahead was like the red 'S' in our logo Zroadster.com..
Actually, Hugh (@miller1098) actually got a personal welcome from the USA. Here was his welcome sign...........'
Followed by his welcome ticket>>>>>>>>>>>
It was @GazHyde who, when he first saw this picture, said that the road ahead was like the red 'S' in our logo Zroadster.com..
He did Frankie, I remember that mate.
Tony.
better than being locked up.............................
That looks like an advisory Frankie, as it only says alleged speed, didn't they actually know how fast you were going ? 
Having not had a speeding ticket over there, not really sure what they look like - been really lucky tbh
Having not had a speeding ticket over there, not really sure what they look like - been really lucky tbh
I know someone who has also been lucky, although she did get a severe telling off 
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Tony.
.Tony.
Other members have heard this story before but I always love telling it over again. Hugh and I (@miller1098) had left Vegas and were headed back East to Jersey. We had to cross Arizona and New Mexico. The interstates there are wide open and hardly any towns along the highway (Interstate 40) so there is hardly any population going across the desert. As a result, while the speed limit is 75 mph, no one really does that as we're in the middle of nowhere. With the local towns hard pressed for cash, the local smokies have enough work in their own small towns as they are spread a little thin so they usually don't patrol the interstates. They usually leave that to the state police who are also spread a little thin. Also for many years, the cops just let people do what ever speed they want. The truckers love it as they can get to where they're going without fear. Hugh and I were on our way back east and I was driving on this open roadway. I was doing between 90 and 110 mph. With that car, you hardly know it. Hugh was surprised to be on a road where it went straight for miles and miles and you couldn't see the end of it in the distance. The 2 lanes each way are separated by a grass median but if you look at the road in the distance, it is so far away, it appears to merge into one small black line on the horizon. I just had to pull over so Hugh could get behind the wheel. I had driven in the UK and one just never sees roads so straight for such a distance. When he got behind the wheel, it must have felt remarkable to him to drive, not for a minute or two, but for HOURS at speeds often over 100 mph. He had a smile on his face that wouldn't quit!!! I mentioned to him that the further east we got, the more populated it was and the more chance we would have of getting a speeding ticket. My mistake was not telling him where to start to begin being careful. I can't remember if I had driven for a while and then given the wheel back to him, but it was getting on to evening and he was driving and I was sitting in the passenger seat (on the right) and must have been starting to snooze off a little. I woke up as I heard the car running over the rumble strip that is on the right side of the right lane. This strip is there to wake up drivers that might be starting to fall asleep. I looked over at him and asked if something had happened to the car. He stuck his right hand up like he was hitch hiking and pointed to the back of the car. I turned around and looked backwards through the back window (I'm sorry to say that we had to put the top up as we had gotten beaten up by the blast of wind from the back of the car for the last 1,000 miles doing high speeds.) A good distance back was a police SUV with his lights flashing. I guess Hugh knew they were after him. There were two officers in the SUV. They both got out of their vehicle and approached our car on either side. I wasn't sure how fast they had clocked Hugh but I knew that police in southern states can be a lot of trouble, especially if you're from out of town. Hugh was about as far 'out of town' as you can get. The officer on Hugh's side asked for his driver's license and the one on my side asked for the registration and insurance card. There was no license plate on the car, just the placard from the dealership, but in the inside windshield on my side was the temporary documents needed that were clearly visible to the officer on my side of the car. Before I could get the rest of the documents out of the glove box, the officer on Hugh's side told him: "You're going to have to come with us". I thought "Holy s***, they going to lock him up in some some small town jail. He'll have to wait for a court hearing or trial. It might not be for weeks!! In retrospect, that wasn't a logical thought but my mind was fearing the worst. The officer on my side of the car seemed to have forgotten to see the rest of the documents as he just said to me: "OK, you can go now but your friend is going with us." He was very polite. I screamed for him to wait. I told him that he was from another country. I said that I didn't even know where they were taking him and that I wasn't familiar with the area. He said that they were from Shamrock and that's where he'd be. I said that I had no idea where that was. He said that it was the a few miles from the last exit we had just passed. I asked him how to get there and he gave me some fast instructions that I could just about follow. In the meantime, Hugh had gotten out of the car and was being led back to the police car. I wasn't sure if they had put handcuffs on him or not. I thought, O God, that poor guy. What's he thinking now? I told the officer on my side that I would just follow them. He told me that I couldn't do that as they were going to cross the grass median and that it was against the law for me to do that. He said I could go to the next exit and cross over to the other side and get back on the interstate there. I asked how far that was and he said it was in the next state in Oklahoma. I had no idea how far that was. I should have had the presence of mind to take a quick video of Hugh being led away into the police car and them pulling away, crossing the median strip and going back the other way. I was too shaken up to do that but it would have been great video now, looking back. Could you imagine me saying in the video: "See you mate. Hope you had a nice drive!! I'm heading home. Bye!!" I think Hugh would have gotten a kick out of it. The Oklahoma exit was about 9 miles away. After turning around and heading back, I got off the exit that the officer was talking about. There was a traffic light at the end of it and I had to stop for it before I made a left to get to Shamrock. I took that moment to call Hugh on his cell phone. It occurred to me that he might not have it as he could be behind bars and it was taken away from him, or he might be in a court before a judge and couldn't answer. To my surprise, he answered. He told me to come towards town and that he was waiting by the side of the road and I could pick him up. I thought Wow, that was fast, what happened? I thought I'd have a tough time spotting him but not long after entering the town, there he was waving me down. He seemed very relieved getting into the car. He told me he had been in front of the judge already. The judge told him he couldn't drive that fast and to be more careful. Naturally he had to pay a fine. I can't tell you how much is was, you'll have to get that from 'ol 107 in a 75 himself. I had to laugh a bit at the way he was holding the ticket in his hand like a trophy saying: "Yeah, Smokey really got me!!!".................................FrankieThat looks like an advisory Frankie, as it only says alleged speed, didn't they actually know how fast you were going ?
Having not had a speeding ticket over there, not really sure what they look like - been really lucky tbh