Tuesday 30th October 2007

Top traffic policeman allegedly caught speeding

Meredydd Hughes faces prosecution

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Meredydd Hughes

A top traffic policeman is facing prosecution for an alleged driving offence.

Meredydd Hughes, chief constable of South Yorkshire Police, was allegedly clocked by cameras in North Wales early on a Bank Holiday Monday in May.

He was on holiday at the time.

A spokeswoman for South Yorkshire Police confirmed he has received a notice of intended prosecution.

No summons has yet been received.

‘Chief Constable Meredydd Hughes has received a notice of intended prosecution in respect of an alleged driving offence in North Wales in the early morning of a Bank Holiday Monday in May while he was on holiday,’ said the spokeswoman.

Mr Hughes recently took over as lead of road policing at the Association of Chief Police Officers.

[Droptheclutch]

FOI to the rescue - what speed was he doing??

[A1GOY]

HA.

[sidesauce]

Send him down and make an example of him!!!! Not that it'll happen.... Grrr.

[crafty1]

there is a god....

[Tony*T3]

In May? Why is this news today then....?

[Petrol_fumes]

does prosecution mean simple points for a few mph over? or big numbers and big slap on wrist?

[MitchT]

Is this what's known as 'friendly fire'?

[squeezebm]

90 in a 60.....................like 105 in a 70 BAN HIM

[rhinochopig]

"Friendly Fire" - Nice one



Lets hope it was outside a school doing 50+

[JDH1]

rhinochopig said:

"Friendly Fire" - Nice one



Lets hope it was outside a school doing 50+

No, let's hope it's 36 in a 30 on a nice wide road on a 200 yard stretch between two 60 zones. Then he might know how the rest of us feel.

(Example for illustrative purposes only and nothing to do with the circumstances in which the writer picked up his 3 points)

[Neomagic]

He is only human at the end of they day, if it was a simple 10 mph over I don't see why he should be penalized any more than the average motorist.

If however it was for example 110 in a national speed limit then he should be made an example of perhaps.

[MikeCR]

HAHAHA OWNED!

[g7jhp]

If he was doing 110 I can see the headline now ..........'Pigs can fly'

[Lostusernamedamn]

Yet another BIB, and this time a senior traffic BIB effectively saying "...the speed limit is bollox, it's the standard of driving that's more important...".

...and I agree with him. Wonderful.

[ridds]

Gutted!

[havoc]

Let him off and let the press have a field day with it...one more nail in the coffin of 'speed kills'!!!

...so justice will be done twice over at once (which is twice more than normal!).

[sprinter885]

You couldn't write the script for this could you.
"The Top Enforcer of anti-Speeding" caught in the most notoriously anti-speeding area... and I thought there was no such thing as justice...
Thank you God.


Can't wait to see if it makes next week's Top Gear "News".

[LukeBird]

Classic!

[bobd]

I hope like me it was 36 in a 30 and he gats 3 points and a fine. That will be justice!
Speed does not kill driver unawareness and excessive speed does and there must be 56 million tickets to be issued for what I did, will probably be no prosecution.

[dave_Sw1]

google his name, that is his third in 3 years, - ain't totting up a bitch

hope his insurance is through the roof on 9 points see what you have done to the rest of us for a change.