Driver caught speeding past child cyclist at an "eye-watering" 61mph in a 30mph zone outside school

Apart from the fact that it apparently looks cool and makes you more aero as a driver the low driving position (which is entirely a choice given the adaptability of modern car seats) makes it harder for the police to prove who was driving. Given 61 in a 30 should result in a ban my money is on the registered keeper taking points for the failure to identify.

They should get enough points to ban the keeper, then!  Not knowing who is driving your car - unless you had reported it stolen some significant time before - should be a serious offence, IMO.

It is fairy serious - 6 points and a fine, but there is indeed a case for the punishment to be upped to the equivalent of the offence being covered up - which would focus minds.

Hear, hear.

I see more and more people driving that have their eyes barely above the top of the steering wheel, then when they're parking, they're leaning right up to be able to see the front (assuming they're not using a camera or just not bothered). It never seems to occur to them that they need to be able to see properly when driving on the road. Unfortunately all the convenience aids in cars now seem to mean that everyone is so used to the car doing all the work for them that the driving has gotten far worse.

Thought I was the only one who had noticed this. It's not confined to a particular age group or vehicle type either. Have been getting concerned about the numbers of drivers whose head is barely above their steering wheel or door panel. 

Edit - I must have responded exactly as the troll was (I assume) banned. Due to the uniquely terrible way this site has been bolted together, It's just appended my reponse to the next comment down, which is why this comment doesn't have anything to do with one it's replying to.

To be fair, "... it's probably not a child" has got to be one of the funniest takes Nige has ever come out with.

But yeah, if you scale the cyclist on the left up so that their wheel is the same height as the cyclist on the right, they're still just over half the size of the cyclist on the right. If (as is highly likely) they're riding a bike with smaller wheels, they'd be even smaller in comparison. The cyclist on the left is very obvioulsy a child.

There is only one uniquely terrible thing around here and it's not the way this site has been bolted together

Small - far away

Their banishment took my reply with it. I postulated that if they couldn't tell if it that was an adult or a child, that may explain their terrible takes on NMOTD over the years.  

I asked if they had tried not being a wazzock. Seems like that was the straw that broke the camel's back....

Even a child knows this.

*an alleged child

Either a child, or a very odd looking man in an XXXL helmet.

It looks to me like there are three cyclists. With one mostly obscured by the guy at the front.

Is this a sock puppet account?

bikes wrote:

It looks to me like there are three cyclists. With one mostly obscured by the guy at the front.

It does look odd around their left leg - almost like there is a blue shoe slightly above a white shoe and a front wheel in the midst of a turn.

Perhaps another child (can't imagine another adult being some completely covered by the guy in front)?
Could also just be some rubbish by the side of the road.

Perhaps a smaller child on a tagalong attached to the adult's bike?

Without the need for any photo altering comparisons, since they are only 151m from the cop with the speed camera and cycling toward him, I am thinking that they cycled right by him a few seconds later and he had every opportunity to confirm it was indeed a child before he composed the original social media post. Why do some trolls try and deflect blame with the most easily disproved crap?