Put pedal to the metal and open this baby up, something many of us have shouted whilst behind the wheel.

The thing is my car maxes out at about 140km/h (on a downhill, with the wind), so I can’t really get up too much of a head of steam.

That’s not the case for all of our road users, because a look at the record speeds we’ve been clocked at shows serious disregard for the rules of the road.

These top speeds below from MyBroadband:

In 2007 on the N2 near Port Shepstone, traffic officers clocked a motorcyclist doing 295km/h – the highest recorded speed at the time.

The man was fined R100,000 after police caught up to him after he stopped his Suzuki GSX-R1100 for a cigarette break…

We should note that the world record is a monster 389 km/h in Texas back in 2003, the driver zooming around the 120 km/h in a Koenigseggs CCR.

Some more top speeds from Jozi and Cape Town then:

The JMPD said they once clocked:

• A BMW M4 going 234km/h on the N1

The City of Cape Town provided details on its top three incidents:

• A driver in an Audi going 227km/h
• A driver in a Mercedes going 222km/h
• A biker on a Kawasaki going 221km/h

I imagine this has a few of you out there feeling like this:

Just arrive alive and be safe on the roads out there – ain’t nobody got time for putting other people’s lives in danger.

[source:mybroadband]