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Glad to hear that in some countries, at least, some judges are more interested in traffic conditions and actual JUSTICE than they are in revenue collecting. In the USA, of course, mitigating circumstances or incompetent driving on someone else's part are no excuse when a nice, healthy fine is at risk. Remember, traffic laws are enforced mostly as a state/local revenue source in this country. That's why we'll never see realistic speed limits on our open highways. By the way, what's a traffic tailback?

George Graves


On Friday, September 6, 2002, at 12:03 PM, alfa-digest wrote:



Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 13:47:49 -0400
From: "Brian Shorey" <[email protected]>
Subject: Ruling in dangerous driving case (NAC)

http://www.rte.ie/news/2002/0905/motorist.html

September 5, 2002

(08:10) A District Judge has said that any motorist caught in a traffic
tailback behind a slow driver should assume that the person holding up
the traffic is an idiot.

The comments were made by Judge William Harnett at a sitting of
Thomastown District Court in Kilkenny during a case involving a Dublin
motorist who overtook a slow-moving car on the hard shoulder after being
caught in a tailback for a number of miles.

24-year-old Keith Kirwan from Ridgewood Green, Forest Road, Swords
pleaded guilty on Monday to dangerous driving last December on the road
between Waterford and Kilkenny.

Judge Harnett said that while his actions were wrong, he was caught
behind a person whose driving was enough to merit a charge of driving
without reasonable consideration.

The judge said he was very familiar with the syndrome of what he called
people who loiter on national roads and hold up traffic, adding that
this was the sort of behaviour which caused accidents. He said that such
drivers were a menace.

Judge Harnett said that either slow drivers enjoyed holding up other
people or else they were incompetent or their cars were in poor
condition.
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