Speeding biker booked, despite falling off bike before the camera!

[Bob]

A motorcyclist is facing a speeding fine - despite not being on the bike when cameras snapped him exceeding the limit!

Boris Maier, 38, from Bern, Switzerland, was recorded travelling at 107kph (66mph) in an 80kph (50mph) zone… sliding along the floor as he fell off after slamming on the brakes having seen the camera. The image taken by the camera focussed on Maier, but the registration number of the bike was in full view.

A police spokesman added that Maier was lucky not to have been sliding just 3kph faster, as at 110kph he would have automatically lost his licence.

[FlangMasterJ]

[p.dath]

Interesting article. I guess it's pretty clear he was on the bike before coming off, and more than likely, the bike was going faster before it started sliding.

[=cJ=]

To be fair I hope he gets a copy of that to put up on his wall

[scumdog]

Interesting article. I guess it's pretty clear he was on the bike before coming off, and more than likely, the bike was going faster before it started sliding.

Braked too hard on seeing the camera?

[bikaholic]

Looks like an innocent pedestrian minding his own business when stuck by fragments of a fallen satellite to me.

[scumdog]

Looks like an innocent pedestrian minding his own business when stuck by fragments of a fallen satellite to me.

I bet the cows were impressed!

[FJRider]

Maybe a charge of depositing dangerous litter too ... ???

[Usarka]

Or sustained loss of traction.

[carbonhed]

I guess it's pretty clear he was on the bike before coming off, and more than likely, the bike was going faster before it started sliding.

Holy Sherlock fucking Holmes Batman.... what are you taking to induce these blinding moments of clarity????? Cos I've just got to get me some of that shit

[oneofsix]

If he hadn't of braked he would have lost his license anyhow. Guess it kind of works out in the end. Could be one of those cases that if you had the shit to lawyer you could argue that they didn't get the vehicle's speed and it is a vehicle offense or that he has photographic prove he wasn't riding the bike at the exact time of the offense.

[gijoe1313]

It'll buff out ...

[Parlane]

Take it to court, they've incorrectly identified the pedestrian as a car anyway.

[Stevee2]

Intersting that the papers didnt use this as an anti speed camera story...

[SPman]

two moving objects in the picture - obviously the bike was doing the speed limit and the sliding pedestrian in leathers bamboozled the radar - case dismissed......