Kids Bedtime Saves Licence
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Must remember this as an excuse :
For those who don't know the road, it's a dual carriageway with a 50 limit as the slip roads are quite short, not giving the average numpty chance to get upto speed for joining the main road.
Express&Star said:
A father-of-seven who sped along the Black Country Route at more than 100mph escaped a driving ban after telling magistrates he was trying to get home before his children’s bedtime.
Colin Adanu Brown was clocked more than doubling the 50mph speed limit as he tore away from Junction 10 of the M6 towards Bilston on April Fool’s Day. Police had to drive at speeds of up to 106mph to keep up with his Ford Probe after spotting it at around 9pm.
But Walsall magistrates yesterday decided not to disqualify the 39-year-old from driving after hearing it would affect his job as a freight driver.
Instead they fined him £200 – just £140 more than than the standard fine imposed on motorists caught travelling just a few miles an hour over the speed limit.
Brown, of Shakespeare Crescent in Harden, Walsall, was also given six penalty points and ordered him to pay £35 costs after admitting careless driving after a camera fitted in the pursuing police car filmed him overtaking vehicles and switching lanes.
Mrs Hilary Peters, prosecuting, said police decided to follow his car after spotting it accelerating away from Junction 10 of the M6.
Officers eventually stopped Brown in Axletree Way, Darlaston, and when they asked him what he thought the speed limit was he said 60mph.
“Police told him he had driven at one point in excess of 100mph,” she said.
Miss Herbinder Rahl, defending, said his £200-a-week job had involved him spending half of the week away from home, often as far as Southampton.
She said: “He was late coming back, having been away most of the week, and he wanted to see his children. It was effectively a concerted effort to get back before their bedtime. It was 9pm.”
Three of his seven children lived with him and his partner.
Mrs Sally Arnold, chairing the magistrates, said: “We could have disqualified you from driving but have given consideration to the fact you have had a clean licence since 1997, the nature of your employment and the fact that you pleaded guilty.”
For those who don't know the road, it's a dual carriageway with a 50 limit as the slip roads are quite short, not giving the average numpty chance to get upto speed for joining the main road.
no room for trips out in a Probe then! LOL 
what with him being a long distance lorry driver.. 
article said:
Brown, of Shakespeare Crescent in Harden, Walsall, was also given six penalty points and ordered him to pay £35 costs after admitting careless driving after a camera fitted in the pursuing police car filmed him overtaking vehicles and switching lanes.
Erm, if they decided to ignore the fact that he was speeding, how can they still push the issue that changing lanes and overtaking is 'careless driving'.
Maybe once they have got all the speeders off the road, they will get rid of all those pesky lane changers too!
pesty said:
I take your point about the slip roads being short but it is a duel carriageway. If a numpty enters the first lane you should have already moved over to the second lane well in advance.
At 9pm on that road the trafic is usualy light enough.
Can I also suggest being wary of the clowns that arrive from the slip road and shoot straight into lane 2, or indeed lane 3 if there is one?
Best wishes all,
Dave.
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