Biker undertaking.

[HJFazer]

I don't think it's that bad... Well, other than not seeing the police car. I mean, you don't know how long he's been sat behind the car, it might have been refusing to let him passed for ages... That said I wouldn't do it very often.

The pulling over to the petrol station is too close though.

[Phil]

Watch the video again.

He was under 70mph before he passed the car on the nearside. He may have crept over 70 but not much more than 75mph. Plod accelerated hard to catch up because he thought the bike may go for it when given space.

I think it was at least 84.6mph from looking at the Vascar screen details.

It was approx 13:34:37 at the start when he passed the gantry and 13:34:55 at the end but that was after the bike had already gone under the next gantry when the video coverage resumes. The distance between the 2 gantries was 0.423 miles (121.619 miles to 122.042 miles) if you look at when the police car passed the 2. So under 18 seconds so at least 84 mph.

Have I got that right?

[maddog04]

this victim surcharge bollox gets me........just another way of screwing us over......a fine on top of a fine.....bastards

[bigralphie]

the coppers had just bought Gran Lattes and doughnuts which went cold .......someone gotta pay 

[positron]

Come on, that's I usually do most of my 70 km commute on .5 lane (lane between two lanes). This judgement seems way too harsh for normal driving standards that I have seen in UK and Ireland - it's perhaps okay in an ideal world where no one commits any crimes and no one lane hogs etc.

Poor biker, no wonder he didn't want to accept the points. Not appearing at the court wasn't very clever though.

[Hamos]

I think it is more the speed of the manoeuvre that caused the problem.  If bike had been sat in lane 1 with car outside in lane 2 and bike continued to undertake at steady speed then I doubt he would have been pulled.

[kitcrazy]

:eek harsh very harsh cant see a problem :lol

[Ben Diesel]

Just down the road from me, I know this stretch of the A14 very well. It's the westbound continuation of the two-lane M11; there is also traffic joining from the left coming from the Newmarket A14 spur. This makes a short stretch of three lane A14, probably no more than 1.5 miles, then the left hand lane 'filters off' to Bar Hill (Tesco) and Longstanton - you can see this from the overhead signs. To add to the complexity, this is exactly where the average speed camera zone starts. It's a place where traffic moving at pace - certainly much of it well in excess of 70, decelerates quickly for the cameras but often there is little room for manoeuvre - I would hazard a guess at this having happened to the car in lane three ahead of the bike. A lot of traffic moves across from lane one into the centre and right hand lanes to continue west on the A14. Notorious accident blackspot and there are often queues at this point of the A14.

Undertaking? I need to do it every day on my way to work, always have done, always will. Second nature to me. I'm certain a lot of my undertaking moves may look similar to what's on camera here; although I prefer to allow myself and others more space.     

[Robbie8666]

having just watched this IMHO the undertake was a of a bit swerve rather than a smooth undertake or filter but when cops put siren on the biker indicates left then hand signals to the truck who probably wouldn't have seen indicator t show he was pulling over for the cops to have a word!