FACT: It has been
raining a lot over most of the country in the last couple of months.
FACT: To
undertake the backlog of road maintenance required in the U.K. would cost almost £13 billion.
FACT: Essex County Council HighwayMaintenance is a masterpiece of the policy of “overwhelm by verbiage”.
FACT: s.3 of the
Road Traffic Act 1988 has the provision, “if a person drives a mechanically
propelled vehicle on a road or other public place without due care and
attention, or without reasonable consideration for other persons using the road
or place, he is guilty of an offence.”(my italics)
FACT: A motorist
in Colchester has been charged under the above provision of
the Road Traffic Act with splashing schoolchildren by driving through a puddle.
OPINION:What a
waste of public funds.
Can't agree there. Splashing passers-by is a legitimate and not unheard of use of the careless driving offence.
ReplyDeleteOf course it depends on whether he could reasonably and safely avoid doing so, which is not necessarily the case.
I bet the mothers and children who were splashed wouldn't agree that it was a waste of public funds to prosecute.
ReplyDeleteTotally correct charge in the circumstances described and not at all a waste of public funds. JohnD
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