So a police officer has been banned from driving for forty-two days for driving at 90mph.
This, depending upon how you look at it, is an extremely soft penalty or an extremely harsh one. I would err on the harsh side.
No-one was hurt by his driving and if he’d been in an accident speed would statistically have been unlikely to be a contributing factor. Even if it were a contributing factor, that same argument could be made all the way down to not allowing the car to move at all.
When the police flout blatantly foolish and draconian laws (as does almost every commuter on my 84-mile round trip each day), it must surely say something about the validity of the law. If it was so dangerous to drive at a speed over 70mph, surely there would be at least one crash on the M23 each day?
Let’s make the speed limits sensible and consider no speed limits on some straight, flat motorways.
December 29th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Don’t be bloody stupid Gavage - just don’t drive so fast - there’s no need…no need at all.
That’s all I have to say.
Goodnight
‘Age
December 30th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
I choose not to drive as fast as my car would take me, but I don’t believe that restricting all people to arbitrary speeds is a good use of power by those we elect.