Back to sppeding and cameras briefly
Barnaby Prendergast
ybanrab at hotmail.com
Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:03:11 BST
>From: Donald Ramsbottom <donald@ramsbottom.co.uk>
>Reply-To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
>To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
>Subject: Back to sppeding and cameras briefly
>Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 07:16:39 +0100
>
>Ironic, the day after RIP, the day new digital speed cameras come online in
>Nottingham.... The Home Secretary Jack Straw's driver will not be
>prosecuted
>for driving at 103 mph!
>
>Even if he was doing it on "orders" unless there was one hell of an
>emergency (and I do not mean getting in for a a division bell) this Special
>Branch officer should have gone through the same as anyone else, which at
>that speed, if found guilty I think would have been instant
>disqualification, and probably a 3 year ban.
>
>The HSecs Jag is an armoured Tank, if the SB driver hit anything at 103 mph
>in a 3 tonner then unless it was an 18 wheeler the other driver was going
>to
>die.
>
>I know its off topic but Grrrrrrrrrrr it is irritating.
>
>Oh I heard it on Classic FM 6.00 am News.
>
Clearly one rulebook for opaque.gov.uk and another for
everone-else.pop.uk...
:-(
B
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