a 94 Supra and a 03 M3 were busted racing in Richmond... 15 days without their licenses and the cars were impounded for 48 hours.

Charges are speeding and something else... Reckless driving maybe?

they said the cars were seen zipping in and out of traffic doing around 90-100 in a 60 zone...

Barely sounds like racing to me

And that sentence is a joke... Whats the big deal of have no license for 15 whole days... It should be ALOT longer if they want to cut down on the street racers... And not only that, but the cars should be impounded for LONGER then the license suspensions...

lets see how they feel about nothing being able to drive their cars even tho they are 'allowed' to drive

As it is, they can't drive for 15 days, but the cars are impounded for 2... Big deal, unless it isn't their car. In which case its probably mom and dad's car... Hopefully the parents would never again let them borrow the car...

Oh well, maybe a few more deaths will make the penalities stiffer...

 

Yeah you would think with all the hype they would be tougher on people street racing but like anything else there isn't too much out there that really scares you from doing it

 

I thought that a person could lose their license for a whole year if they are caught street racing...............fifteen days - if they drive those cars, they can easily afford the fines.......and the time is no biggie.
They will be at it again as soon as they get the cars back.
This is not a sufficient deterrent.

 

thats a slap on the wrist 15 days , what ever happend to a 6month suspension they where saying, the goverment always says there going to do one thing and then do anther its time they all get together and think together as a collective unit for once


but hey its just my .2 cents

 

I bet the supra won

 

I have no problem with tougher suspensions, however i do have a problem with the way they are issued. Seems like cops have an awful lot of power to pull the car off the road, when it seems like the cases are marginal.

 

I agree with Draco here. Tougher suspensions are needed, however, I'd like to see clearer definition of what street racing is.

My point is that I am not into a high speed run in traffic, but like most people, I do like to GET ON IT once in a while. And, when a respectable car comes up alongside me and throws a rev, I might be very inclined to do a little WOT spurt. I might not even get up high enough to break the speed limit (it may be a very short spurt up to 100 km/hr), but if a police office has full discretion, then as soon as he hears two V8s at WOT, he or she may instantly claim "street racing".

Now perhaps that is street racing: two cars matching speeds on a public road. But what if you are well in front of traffic (hence, not likely reckless driving)? What if you don't actually break the speed limit (or do so insignificantly)? Should you be labelled a street racer and lose your license for 6 months? I can see that happening. What if I'm by myself on an open road and take a hard run - am I street racing by myself?

So, what do they do then when "soccer mom" (for example only)is driving her minivan in the merging lane and gasses it to merge? Likely she won't be breaking the speed limit but she's goosing the car/vehicle just as much as I may be (and perhaps at the same speeds) and pushing the limits of a stock vehicle. Where do you differentiate? Does it all come down to intentions... or what the officer THINKS your intentions are?

What I would like to see is an officer that has enough sense (or guidance through clearer rules) to know when two cars (or even a single car) is merely going for a harmless "stretching of the legs", or speeding, or street racing. Each of those three classes has to be treated seperately, but I can see endless possibilities for overlap.

 

lol....streetracers in MiniVan's. It reminds me of the time my Mom in her Pontiac Transport WAXED my Aunt in her Ford Contour (V6)

Draco....you might have been singing a different tune about the tougher suspensions - if the cops on a certain part of highway in a "nice" part of town had caught you doing what you were doing that night I was out with you

I just want street racing to go back to the way it was in the last part of high school...organized!



however...now it seems unlikely

Andy

 

Maybe

 

 

I feel the same way

 

cops have the ability to pull your licence for up to two years on the spot.