Cyril Haearn wrote:I like to keep comfortably inside the maximum speed limit
This is fine on the motorway where normal drivers can overtake easily
I don’t speed. My company car has a telematics system fitted. I’ve no issue at all with this.
Cyril Haearn wrote:I like to keep comfortably inside the maximum speed limit
This is fine on the motorway where normal drivers can overtake easily
thirdcrank wrote:PDQ Mobile wrote: ... He was as I remember it brought down because he was having an affair and his wife/partner decided to dish the dirt on him.
Bringing the sky down on both of them.
Otherwise nobody would ever have known.
While it's right that the rest of society might never have known, IIRC, his son was also aware and was caught in the web. I'm not clear what point you are making here: that it's easy to get away with? or something else?
pwa wrote:thirdcrank wrote:PDQ Mobile wrote: ... He was as I remember it brought down because he was having an affair and his wife/partner decided to dish the dirt on him.
Bringing the sky down on both of them.
Otherwise nobody would ever have known.
While it's right that the rest of society might never have known, IIRC, his son was also aware and was caught in the web. I'm not clear what point you are making here: that it's easy to get away with? or something else?
I imagine the point is that getting caught declaring the wrong driver is rare, and the chances of being prosecuted for it are very small. Too small to deter me if I wanted to do that. It is an option that will exist for households until we have a system that tells us, rather than asking us, who was driving at the time of the alleged offence.
Cyril Haearn wrote:pwa wrote:thirdcrank wrote:
While it's right that the rest of society might never have known, IIRC, his son was also aware and was caught in the web. I'm not clear what point you are making here: that it's easy to get away with? or something else?
I imagine the point is that getting caught declaring the wrong driver is rare, and the chances of being prosecuted for it are very small. Too small to deter me if I wanted to do that. It is an option that will exist for households until we have a system that tells us, rather than asking us, who was driving at the time of the alleged offence.
A small chance. Of a big punishment, going to prison could ruin ones life
Or are only VIPs sent to prison?
pwa wrote:Cyril Haearn wrote:pwa wrote:
I imagine the point is that getting caught declaring the wrong driver is rare, and the chances of being prosecuted for it are very small. Too small to deter me if I wanted to do that. It is an option that will exist for households until we have a system that tells us, rather than asking us, who was driving at the time of the alleged offence.
A small chance. Of a big punishment, going to prison could ruin ones life
Or are only VIPs sent to prison?
Only folk who have a marital tiff that ends up with one of them picking up the phone to confess.
Bonefishblues wrote:One assumes not, since they have been in existence for many years. Do you seek to compare them with those?
Cyril Haearn wrote:My thesis is: these otherwise honourable public servants were imprisoned because it was a high-profile case
Ordinary people would have not been imprisoned, any evidence for this?
Did they share a cell?
thirdcrank wrote:It's been widely reported today that research by Co-operative Insurance suggests that a fifth of drivers have falsely admitted to being the driver of a motor vehicle during the investigation of an alleged offence to shelter another driver from the penalty points.
Bonefishblues wrote:Cunobelin wrote:Bonefishblues wrote:@CB I don't doubt that, but we are becoming (have become) a one-trick pony in terms of road enforcement. Great that it's cheap, can be mechanised to a large extent, and of course the hundreds of thousands of offenders are proof that the roads are being policed (not Policed).
I think that the authorities are getting off scot-free here though, evidenced by how poor standards are becoming. Some of the suggestions on that site have merit, but first one must accept that there can be good amongst bad in order to see them.
I still would not look at the BNP site for advice on Race Relations.
OK, point taken, you believe that site's got no validity and must be ignored. I will look more broadly for ideas. Meanwhile the DoT must be p1ssing themselves laughing at how easy they get it. Keep pushing the button marked speeding and watch the happiness spread. Binary life's good because simple.
I agree that we don't want bad parking and irresponsible or inconsiderate driving/parking but this over-enforcement with no notification that you have even committed any offence until you are weeks past the event is seriously unjust.