Speeding Excuses
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 11:57 am
Speeding tales fail to convince
LONDON (Reuters) - A mercy dash for a dying hamster, a UFO-inspired trance broken only by a speed camera's flash and severe diarrhoea were among the year's best excuses from speeding motorists in the north-east.
Northumbrian authorities were having none of them.
"Some drivers seem to think that if they tell a good enough story, then they will get off," Ray King, manager of the Northumbria Safety Camera Partnership, was quoted as saying in Friday's Guardian.
His organisation has issued a top 10 list of tales that included blaming a low-flying aircraft for triggering the speed trap and another saying the cause was bad vibrations from a surf board carried on the vehicle's roof.
Speeding drivers earn penalty points for their licences, possible bans and fines of 60 pounds or more.
LONDON (Reuters) - A mercy dash for a dying hamster, a UFO-inspired trance broken only by a speed camera's flash and severe diarrhoea were among the year's best excuses from speeding motorists in the north-east.
Northumbrian authorities were having none of them.
"Some drivers seem to think that if they tell a good enough story, then they will get off," Ray King, manager of the Northumbria Safety Camera Partnership, was quoted as saying in Friday's Guardian.
His organisation has issued a top 10 list of tales that included blaming a low-flying aircraft for triggering the speed trap and another saying the cause was bad vibrations from a surf board carried on the vehicle's roof.
Speeding drivers earn penalty points for their licences, possible bans and fines of 60 pounds or more.
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