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JAG - 5/12/07 at 11:37 AM

At long last they've taken some action over a Policeman speeding.

Here

blakep82 - 5/12/07 at 11:39 AM

42 days?! pathetic! i'd be calling for a year

rallyingden - 5/12/07 at 11:46 AM

Welsh police........ Worst in the land (IMO)

No escape boyo

JAG - 5/12/07 at 11:53 AM

He was also fined £350

Gezza - 5/12/07 at 12:38 PM

Oh dear,

i have just returned home from court in skipton this morning was given six points and 360 fine for 99 in a 60 limit, now i will have to really behave!!!

David Jenkins - 5/12/07 at 12:56 PM

Did you note the rather pointed remark about whether he'll have a police car with driver while he's banned?

I'm sure lots of banned drivers wouldn't mine a chauffer-driven car while trying to do their work!

speedyxjs - 5/12/07 at 02:08 PM

quote:
Originally posted by JAG
He was also fined £350


Thats just his xmas bonus

billynomates - 5/12/07 at 06:45 PM

Personally, I'd rather he'd have got off. Cant comment on the circumstances in this case but there are plenty of times when it's perfectly safe to do 90 in a 60 zone.

All this will do is increase the belief that the police in North Wales have got there policies on speed right, and the anti-speed campaigners will see this conviction as a victory.

I would however have fined him for having a girly name.

Peteff - 5/12/07 at 07:44 PM

But none when it's legal You can never predict what is going to happen so how can you say you would be safe, blowouts etc.. I've had accidents below the 30 limit, who knows what would have happened if you were doing 3 times the speed

billynomates - 5/12/07 at 10:56 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Peteff
But none when it's legal You can never predict what is going to happen so how can you say you would be safe, blowouts etc.. I've had accidents below the 30 limit, who knows what would have happened if you were doing 3 times the speed


Tosh.

As for having accidents below the 30 limit, are you suggesting that we lower the national limit to 15mph just in case something scary happens. Or maybe you (or the other party) just need to pay a little bit more attention. Drive faster, it sharpens the senses.

iank - 5/12/07 at 11:27 PM

quote:
Originally posted by billynomates
Personally, I'd rather he'd have got off. Cant comment on the circumstances in this case but there are plenty of times when it's perfectly safe to do 90 in a 60 zone.

All this will do is increase the belief that the police in North Wales have got there policies on speed right, and the anti-speed campaigners will see this conviction as a victory.

I would however have fined him for having a girly name.


Why? they wouldn't have let you off for doing the same, and it wouldn't have made a tiny difference to their enforcement policies - it's all about making the numbers and the cash if it were about safety they'd have more trafpol and no cameras. I'm absolutely and fundamentally against one rule for them and one for us - only acceptable excuse is being in a police car with it's lights on a verified emergency shout IMO.

It's just been on newsnight - dozens of his officers in their own cars have been let off by him. They'd even got clear pictures from the cameras (after the information commissioner overruled them trying to keep them secret) and they still claimed not to be able to id them.