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Your comments duly noted baconbuttyman but the point of this thread is that this Law isn't a well known fact !!
99% of drivers I speak to, don,t know that the engine has to be OFF And if someone can explain to me how injury will result by being stationary with the engine running There will be a law next about Farting while driving
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21st January 2010, 12:17 | #53 |
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...anyone hear the report on BBC TV Breakfast news that a Police Force, Traffic etc are booking motorists for smoking and charging them with driving without due care and attention or not in Control of Motor Vehicle?
Believe its either Devon or Cornwall, a area with no Motorways but many Accidents. Also doing you eating, Changing Stations etc while driving where spotted. Also more sensible, things like no seat belts, children not in correct child seat or fastened correctly, and using Mobile phones regardless of a hands free kit. Everyone is getting a £60 or £80- fixed penalty ticket plus some additional 3 Points. It is meant to cut down deaths on the Road by 2 a Year. Could also be rolled out nationwide if effective enough!! |
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Here's an idea, why not stop everyone driving and then there would be no deaths caused by motor cars...........
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It's because this administration have now turned low level careless driving into another "nice little earner" by allowing the Police to issue fixed penalty tickets, thus circumventing the Courts. This was against the advice of the MA and effectively allows a Police officer to decide whether an action amounts to careless driving or not, something which should be wholly within the remit of the Judiciary. Nice little earner, certainly but it's going to drive an even bigger wedge between the Police and the public but also, now between the Police and the Judiciary. Luckily, the Police haven't the option to charge an individual without the agreement of the CPS which is neatly circumvented by the issue of a fixed penalty ticket, which is neither a charge nor a fine but merely an offer to accept an arbitrary sum of money and points in lieu of same. I don't agree with whining and trying the "pepipoo way" of getting out of FTPs as you know and would never dream of advising or suggesting a course of action to others but if I was pulled over and offered the FTP method of dealing with alleged careless driving, there is no way I would accept it, even if I thought it justified, for an incident of this nature. I would, instead, insist upon being reported for Summons, and if the duty CPS prosecutor was facile enough to authorise a charge, would argue my case in Court. Last edited by Raistlin; 21st January 2010 at 17:10.. |
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For the record, it was Dorset. They have a Zero Tolerance level on these things. Gawd Help Us All!!
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Quite agree Paul, and you know my thoughts on this.
It is so damaging to the Police Forces around the UK to. |
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