On 25/05/2020 23:05, TMS320 wrote:
On 25/05/2020 22:34, Simon Mason wrote:

QUOTE: Police have clocked a motorist speeding at 120mph on the M62...
...Â* which is 50mph over the 70mph speed limit.

"One driver was caught doing 116mph in a 60mph limit – almost double
the speed limit

I always wonder why it is necessary to embellish stories like this.
Though, given the way journalists (particularly the BBC) love to show
off their prowess with a calculator, I am surprised they haven't given
it as a percentage.

Just be grateful they've kept it in mph.

When the BBC reports any measurement of distance, they like to use
metric as first choice and imperial measures (the only ones with any
official status in the UK) as the dowdy runner-up.

I blame those trendy teachers at Holland Park Comp in the 70s and 80s.