Motorist busted for 10 mph on motorway
There's slow and then there's
unreasonable.
The car can do highway speeds even if the driver can’t
A woman banned from driving for seven days after traveling at speeds of less than 10mph on the motorway told Reuters on Friday: “that road’s my nemesis.” Stephanie Cole, 58, of Fishponds, Bristol, straddled the hard shoulder and inside lane as she dawdled along a stretch of the M32 near her home last August.
In the back window of the car was a sign which said: “I don’t do fast, please overtake“.
Cole admitted driving without reasonable consideration at North Avon Magistrates’ Court on Friday and was told she would have to take another test at the end of the ban.
“I didn’t intend getting onto the motorway, but all of a sudden I found myself on it and I could not get off,” she told Reuters after the hearing.
There is a Disabled Drivers Association in the UK. Regulations have long recognized the needs of - and restrictions on - disabled motorists.
Posted: Fri - January 4, 2008 at 06:12 PM