{"id":80975,"date":"2023-11-05T11:53:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T11:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?p=80975"},"modified":"2023-11-05T11:53:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T11:53:36","slug":"moment-dangerous-driver-is-caught-speeding-at-75mph-in-30-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/moment-dangerous-driver-is-caught-speeding-at-75mph-in-30-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment dangerous driver is caught speeding at 75mph in 30 zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Moment dangerous driver is caught speeding at 75mph in 30 zone while wearing football boots &#8211; as he&#8217;s banned from driving for a year<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thauseef Tafique, 36, was caught speeding\u00a0in Oldcotes in Nottinghamshire<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He admitted dangerous driving and was banned from the roads for 12 months\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the moment a dangerous driver was caught speeding at 75mph through a residential area while wearing his football boots.<\/p>\n<p>Thauseef Tafique, 36, was clocked travelling more than double the 30mph limit in a quiet rural village after he overtook an unmarked police car in heavy rain and dark conditions on July 26.<\/p>\n<p>Cops pulled over the dangerous driver at around 11pm and found he was wearing football boots to drive in along the A634 Blyth Road, in Oldcotes, Nottinghamshire.<\/p>\n<p>Nottinghamshire Police said they were &#8216;blown away&#8217; to find the footy player trying to drive in studs as they would not offer &#8216;sufficient control over the vehicle&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Tafique, of Sheffield, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and was banned from the roads for 12 months and handed a 12 month community order on October 3.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/05\/10\/77420683-12712323-image-a-14_1699180946798.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Thauseef Tafique, 36, was clocked travelling more than double the 30mph limit in a quiet rural village after he overtook an unmarked police car in heavy rain and dark conditions on July 26. Pictured: Tafique&#8217;s car after he was pulled over by police\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/05\/10\/77420681-12712323-image-a-15_1699180965231.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Cops pulled over the dangerous driver at around 11pm and found he was wearing football boots (circled in red) to drive in along the A634 Blyth Road, in Oldcotes, Nottinghamshire<\/p>\n<p>Tafique was also ordered to complete up to 20 rehabilitation activity requirement days, pay a \u00a3114 victim surcharge and \u00a385 court costs at Mansfield Magistrates&#8217; Court.<\/p>\n<p>Dashcam footage released by police shows\u00a0Tafique overtaking a police car in the pitch black, which then immediately speeds up to pursue him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The police car can be seen travelling at around 80mph as the officer desperately attempts to keep up with the wreckless driver.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The chase continues as both vehicles enter in to the village of Oldcotes, racing past two signs highlighting the 30mph speed limit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At this point the police car is seen travelling above 60mph, matching the speed of Tafique as he jets through the quiet village.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tafique then accelerates up to 75mph once again, at which point the officer decides enough is enough and turns on his sirens, forcing\u00a0the 36-year-old to pull over.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As Tafique exits his vehicle he can be seen bizarrely wearing a pair of white football boots, before he is escorted to the side of the road to speak to the officer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Steve Waft, of the force&#8217;s Roads Policing Unit, was behind the wheel of the police car during the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/05\/10\/77420685-12712323-image-a-16_1699180973850.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Dashcam footage released by police shows Tafique overtaking a police car in the pitch black, which then immediately speeds up to pursue him<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/05\/10\/77420691-12712323-image-a-18_1699181012505.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The chase continues as both vehicles enter in to the village of Oldcotes<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/05\/10\/77420687-12712323-image-a-17_1699181000442.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The officer later pulls him over and as Tafique exits his vehicle he can be seen bizarrely wearing a pair of white football boots<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/05\/10\/77420689-12712323-image-a-19_1699181028556.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He is then pulled to the side of the road to have a chat with the officer Sergeant Steve Waft, of the Nottinghamshire Police&#8217;s Roads Policing Unit<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;Our top priority is to make the roads throughout Nottinghamshire as safe as possible for everyone using them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As in this instance, as a team we will also deal with any criminality on our roads if we come across it and take appropriate action against offenders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The weather was very poor. It had been raining heavily throughout the evening, leaving standing water in places, and it was dark with no street lighting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I noticed a vehicle come behind me quite quickly. I could see it was pulling out to look at an overtake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As the solid white line changed to broken lines the vehicle overtook me into a blind right-hand bend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As we approached the village of Oldcotes, which has a speed limit of 30mph, the vehicle continued at 68mph slowed slightly, then started to accelerate up to 75mph which was when I illuminated my blue lights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The vehicle pulled over and I spoke with the driver. I noticed he was wearing football boots to drive in which would not offer sufficient control over the vehicle when breaking and accelerating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;His driving fell far below the standard of a careful and competent driver.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12712323\/driver-caught-speeding-wearing-football-boots-police-banned-driving.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moment dangerous driver is caught speeding at 75mph in 30 zone while wearing football boots &#8211; as he&#8217;s banned from driving for a year Thauseef Tafique, 36, was caught speeding\u00a0in Oldcotes in Nottinghamshire He admitted dangerous driving and was banned from the roads for 12 months\u00a0 This is the moment a dangerous driver was caught&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Moment dangerous driver is caught speeding at 75mph in 30 zone - posterboyedit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/moment-dangerous-driver-is-caught-speeding-at-75mph-in-30-zone\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Moment dangerous driver is caught speeding at 75mph in 30 zone - posterboyedit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Moment dangerous driver is caught speeding at 75mph in 30 zone while wearing football boots &#8211; 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