Fined for having a St George flag
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cortinaman said:Showing your age here
he sounds like the sort of tosser who nicks steamroller drivers for using a vehicle with 3 bald tyres.
... I believe they're called "road-rollers" now. Funny how names stick. Anyone else feel that the quote: "The other driver told me he was a police officer and said he had gone through an amber light and I should not have followed him." is illuminating of the "one law for us and one for everyone else" behaviour by some police officers that is being mentioned in SP&L with increasing frequency these past months.
Streaky
www.dvla.gov.uk/vehicles/regmarks/reg_marks_current_requirements.htm#europlate
dvla said:
Since 1st September 2001 there has been an optional provision for the display of a Euro-plate for vehicles registered in the UK. The Euro-plate is a number plate that incorporates the symbol of the European Union (a circle of 12 stars on a blue background) with the national identification letters of the member states below. This symbol is located on the far left-hand side of the number plate.
Vehicles displaying this symbol no longer have to use the traditional oval shaped national identifier (GB) sticker when travelling within the European Union. All vehicles registered in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have, by international convention, the distinguishing sign GB.
The Government announced on 28 December 2001 the intention to permit the display of national flags and national identifiers on vehicle number plates. The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001 are in the process of being amended. They will provide for the voluntary display of the Union flag, Scottish Saltire, Cross of St George and Red Dragon. Football team crests etc are not allowed.
puggit said:
www.dvla.gov.uk/vehicles/regmarks/reg_marks_current_requirements.htm#europlate dvla said:
The Government announced on 28 December 2001 the intention to permit the display of national flags and national identifiers on vehicle number plates. The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001 are in the process of being amended. They will provide for the voluntary display of the Union flag, Scottish Saltire, Cross of St George and Red Dragon. Football team crests etc are not allowed.
That's the problem, though; this has never made it into the "rules" officially despite the DVLA's intention...
Sounds to me like PC Jobsworth was after anything to nick him for just to "teach him a lesson" for running the amber light (just as PC J did) and then having the temerity to overtake him!
As a matter of interest, why did the guy pull over for an unmarked car with an out-of-uniform BiB driving it?
Something just doesn't add up about this whole story...
Apache said:
He could book him for running an amber light, it happened to a neighbour of mine. Mind you he'd have to book himself then wouldn't he
Not if St George was so close behind him he went through to avoid a collision
! Reading between the lines I suspect this was about the attitude of St George!
gone said:
He could book him for running an amber light, it happened to a neighbour of mine. Mind you he'd have to book himself then wouldn't he
Not if St George was so close behind him he went through to avoid a collision
Reading between the lines I suspect this was about the attitude of St George!
Has anyone, ever, been successful in using that as a defence when charged with running a traffic light?
I'd be staggered if they have.
Nick_F said:
Apache said:
He could book him for running an amber light, it happened to a neighbour of mine. Mind you he'd have to book himself then wouldn't he
Not if St George was so close behind him he went through to avoid a collision
Reading between the lines I suspect this was about the attitude of St George!
Has anyone, ever, been successful in using that as a defence when charged with running a traffic light?
I'd be staggered if they have.
didn't work for my neighbour, mind you he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed
Nick_F said:
Apache said:
He could book him for running an amber light, it happened to a neighbour of mine. Mind you he'd have to book himself then wouldn't he
Not if St George was so close behind him he went through to avoid a collision
Reading between the lines I suspect this was about the attitude of St George!
Has anyone, ever, been successful in using that as a defence when charged with running a traffic light?
I'd be staggered if they have.
I have. Scunthorpe, 11:30 one Saturday, me in a MK1 Shedscort, 5 up on the way to a nightclub. Police party van turning right, me going straight. Light turns orange too late to stop without doing an emergency stop and I keep going. Police party van follows me and pulls me. Explained I did not think it was safe to stop due to cars behind etc. They let me off. I think they wanted to check I was kosher and not drunk or anything too - which I wasn't, I'd just finished work in a pub though...
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