Back to sppeding and cameras briefly

[David Swarbrick]

In message <1.5.4.32.20000728061639.00e5dcdc@192.168.0.65>, Donald
Ramsbottom <donald@ramsbottom.co.uk> wrote:
>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.

No, In the absence of especial danger and on a motorway, he would get a
short ban - probably about a month.

It remains a disgraceful 'one law for us, one law for them' incident. 

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