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Manslaughter charges at last?
In an earlier post I wrote that pigs would fly before Highways England faced manslaughter charges for opening hard shoulders to motorway traffic without proper precautions. It’s promising that South Yorkshire coroner, Nicola Mundy, is referring the case of Nargis … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, hard shoulder, Highways England, Nargis Begum, Nicola Mundy, road safety
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Them and Us
A pensioner in Christchurch, Dorset, painted a zebra crossing so he and his disabled wife could cross a busy road. The council fined him for criminal damage. I kid you not. In the absence of a bridge or flyover, road-users … Continue reading
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Tagged Christchurch, Equality Streets, Laurie Phillips, Sir Tom Moore
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Admission
Use of motorway hard shoulders without safeguards was “entirely wrong”, admitted Grant Shapps. Article here. Are corporate manslaughter charges being brought? When pigs fly. Thirty-eight (38) avoidable deaths later and untold trauma to survivors, the anonymous perpetrators of the current … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Grant Shapps, Highways England, Jim O'Sullivan, Martin Cassini, smart motorways
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The definition of fascism?
Re previous posts about the fabricated “crime” of “speeding”. Statutory traffic law allows no defence, no arguments on rational or commonsense grounds. The system inures itself against reform by forbidding voices to be raised in challenge. It’s a self-serving monster.
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Tagged Equality Streets, fascism, speeding, statutory traffic law, traffic regulation
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Hit by a bus
The phrase, “You could be killed crossing the road” is a thoughtlessly-repeated phrase, e.g. the other day on The Today Programme by Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty (10.1. 2021, I think it was). Making some parallel with the risk of … Continue reading
Anyone for tennis? Nope
I’m no fan of the term “nanny state” because good nannies enable rather than disable human flourishment. Blanket lockdown rules that outlaw activities such as tennis among people capable of exercising due care are akin to rigid speed limits that … Continue reading
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Tagged BRAKE!, Equality Streets, lockdown rules, speed limits, speeding
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Mugged by the system
During a perfectly safe overtaking manoeuvre on an otherwise empty dual lane stretch of the A361 Link Rd, I’m clocked doing 73 in a 60 by a concealed radar gun. The road is clear and the weather fine. No harm … Continue reading
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Tagged A361, DfT, Equality Streets, Link Road, speeding, statutory traffic law, traffic law, transport ministers
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Speeding: a fabricated crime
Motorists who fall foul of traffic regulation are rarely real criminals. Captain, now Sir Tom Moore, the NHS fundraising hero, admitted to breaking the speed limit hundreds of times. In doing so, he probably only hurt the odd fly. Harriet … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Huhne, Equality Streets, Fiona Onasanya, Martin Cassini, speeding, the system, traffic regulation
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Moronic traffic regulation
Traffic regulation is devised by morons for fellow morons as well as bright people. Speed limits and traffic lights require total obedience. They brook no argument if you exercise discretion (e.g. creep across a deserted junction or accelerate briefly to … Continue reading
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Tagged road safety, speed cameras, speed limits, traffic regulation
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Cool Hand Fluke
I realise now that everything about my challenge to the speeding ticket was irrelevant to the Court. And everything that statutory law stands for – numbers instead of context – is irrelevant to me. So what we had was a … Continue reading
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Tagged Cool Hand Luke, Equality Streets, speeding, speeding fine
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