RE: Ban For 10mph Motorway Driver
Friday 4th January 2008
A woman who drove at speeds of less than 10mph on the motorway has been banned from driving for seven days, it has been reported.
Ban For 10mph Motorway Driver
Seven day ban for going too slow
Stephanie Cole repeatedly jammed on her brakes as she weaved between the hard shoulder and inside lane of the M32, reported the BBC website.
She was also understood to have a sign in the back of her car that read ‘I do not drive fast, please overtake’ when police stopped her.
Apparently Mrs Cole, 58, of Fishponds, Bristol, had ‘no confidence’ on the motorway but had to use it to go to the shops.
‘I really didn't want to go on the motorway, but I desperately had to go to Staples for an ink cartridge,' she was quoted as saying.
‘I don't know any other way to get to it so I went that way,’ she added.
‘I think it was one of those things you do by mistake and that's exactly it was, I was on there by mistake.
‘It just felt awful. I didn't know what to do. I panicked and turned to jelly inside and I didn't know what to do.'
Mrs Cole apparently has to take another driving test and has admitted driving without reasonable consideration.
North Avon Magistrates' Court was told Mrs Cole's GP had been treating her for ‘fear of driving’ for the past three-and-a-half years.
Discussion
"North Avon Magistrates' Court was told Mrs Cole's GP had been treating her for ‘fear of driving’ for the past three-and-a-half years."
Quite simply, she should not be allowed on the road again. Hopefully she'll fail her driving test (though how she ever passed in the first place!?!?!) and that will be one less danger on the road!
Quite simply, she should not be allowed on the road again. Hopefully she'll fail her driving test (though how she ever passed in the first place!?!?!) and that will be one less danger on the road!
davee7 said:
"North Avon Magistrates' Court was told Mrs Cole's GP had been treating her for ‘fear of driving’ for the past three-and-a-half years."
Erm, I don't think GP's treat specific phobias other than the more general ones. Perhaps she is on drugs?I could cure her in an hour or so.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7171154...
At least she has been ordered to take a driving test. This should mean that she never drives unaccompanied again by the sounds of things. This would be a good thing on the whole - if damn inconvenient for her.
At least she has been ordered to take a driving test. This should mean that she never drives unaccompanied again by the sounds of things. This would be a good thing on the whole - if damn inconvenient for her.
Good Lord.She has multiple Sclerosis?
My mum has MS. What that meant is that one day she had a spasm while driving and completely lost control of her car, putting her foot to the floor involuntarily on a public road in an automatic (she wasnt strong enough to use a gear lever). She hit a parked car and flipped her car at 70 mph, outside a school.
Is this safe driving?
My mum has MS. What that meant is that one day she had a spasm while driving and completely lost control of her car, putting her foot to the floor involuntarily on a public road in an automatic (she wasnt strong enough to use a gear lever). She hit a parked car and flipped her car at 70 mph, outside a school.
Is this safe driving?
JackHolroyde said:
She has multiple Sclerosis?
My mum has MS. What that meant is that one day she had a spasm while driving and completely lost control of her car, putting her foot to the floor involuntarily on a public road in an automatic (she wasnt strong enough to use a gear lever). She hit a parked car and flipped her car at 70 mph, outside a school.
Is this safe driving?
My aunt has MS and is so weak these days I couldn't imagine her pouring her own tea let alone driving. Of course the effects of MS can vary hugely and as you said sometimes these things can come on suddenly so I'm not sure how you would regulate it short of just banning anybody with any kind of physical impairment or disease from driving altogether which is ridiculous.My mum has MS. What that meant is that one day she had a spasm while driving and completely lost control of her car, putting her foot to the floor involuntarily on a public road in an automatic (she wasnt strong enough to use a gear lever). She hit a parked car and flipped her car at 70 mph, outside a school.
Is this safe driving?
edit: I'm going to put in my post from the other thread as I think this is the one it's supposed to be in:
A seven DAY ban? Is that even worth doing? The court proceedings probably took longer than that, bloody hell.
I find it a bit pathetic that that's all she got (and the retest) considering how mind-bogglingly dangerous what she did was. I'm actually honestly flabberghasted that nobody was killed. Average motorway traffic would have been doing 60-70mph more than her - imagine coming up on a car completely stopped in the middle of a dual carriageway! - and it was during the daytime so probably quite busy on the road too. It's just ridiculous when we think back to all the people who have had licenses revoked or multiple-year bans for having the nerve to do 100mph or more in the early hours of the morning when the motorway's deserted. Because as we all know speed kills.
Seeing as we all know speed kills maybe we should campaign to have the limits on motorways lowered? As we can see from this report we've got hooligans doing over seven times the speed of some other drivers, this is unacceptable and patently not safe!
Edited by OwenK on Friday 4th January 15:08
V6GTO said:
Speaks volums for the case of adding Motorway driving to instruction and Test.
Martin.
Totally agree. People like this should not be allowed on motorway.Martin.
I remember when I passed my test my instructor asked if I would like a further lesson to be driven on motorway... so so glad I said yes - should now be mandatory.
Collaudatore said:
davee7 said:
Quite simply, she should not be allowed on the road again
Couldn't agree more - if she is bing treated by a GP for "fear of driving" - on her driving license application, will we see....Any medical conditions? Fear of driving
????
I'm getting really hacked off with the attitude people have to driving - I bet not everyone would 'expect' - never mind think that they have some kind of right - to be able to fly a helicopter, or perform open heart surgery. And yet is seems as though the skill set 'driving' is available to anyone, whether they can actually do it or not.
Some people (this woman and whomever's mum rolled a car
) just shouldn't be allowed to drive. Full stop.ETA: I've just phoned Brake to ask for a comment - I'll let you know what they say...
Edited by MrKipling43 on Friday 4th January 15:16
JackHolroyde said:
She has multiple Sclerosis?
My mum has MS. What that meant is that one day she had a spasm while driving and completely lost control of her car, putting her foot to the floor involuntarily on a public road in an automatic (she wasnt strong enough to use a gear lever). She hit a parked car and flipped her car at 70 mph, outside a school.
Is this safe driving?
That depends. What was the speed limit?My mum has MS. What that meant is that one day she had a spasm while driving and completely lost control of her car, putting her foot to the floor involuntarily on a public road in an automatic (she wasnt strong enough to use a gear lever). She hit a parked car and flipped her car at 70 mph, outside a school.
Is this safe driving?
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