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  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    The test for inconsiderate/careless driving is in a way subjective anyway. If you get stopped by a copper before, they had to summon you to court. Now they can ticket you. You can go to court and argue your case before the beak or pay up. Seems like a common sense way for motorists who have ballsed up to pay a fine and get on with their day.
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    Deleted.

    Never mind. Bad journalism by the Beeb. Those are supposed examples of the things that might be caught by careless and inconsiderate driving, which is the offence that is now captured by the new regime.
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  • moarspeed
    moarspeed Posts: 119
    Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:
    Deleted.

    Never mind. Bad journalism by the Beeb. Those are supposed examples of the things that might be caught by careless and inconsiderate driving, which is the offence that is now captured by the new regime.

    What, the whole list?
  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    Think so, yes. If you look up the CPS guidance on careless/inconsiderate driving they are pretty much all examples of what are considered to fall within those offences. So probably the Beeb just rehashed a press release that contained that list.
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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,812
    MOARspeed wrote:
    For a start these new rules seem to mostly target things that most highway code ignorant people find mildly annoying.
    To clear to things up
    1/ There are no new rules
    2/ This is merely the introduction of a fixed penalty for "Driving without due care and attention" which is the existing rule (law) that covers the offences that keep being mentioned.

    Many of these are not taken to court as most officers see it as a sledgehammer for a nut, an FP may well encourage officers to look to a middle ground between a reprimand and court.
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  • moarspeed
    moarspeed Posts: 119
    The Rookie wrote:
    MOARspeed wrote:
    For a start these new rules seem to mostly target things that most highway code ignorant people find mildly annoying.
    To clear to things up
    1/ There are no new rules
    2/ This is merely the introduction of a fixed penalty for "Driving without due care and attention" which is the existing rule (law) that covers the offences that keep being mentioned.

    Many of these are not taken to court as most officers see it as a sledgehammer for a nut, an FP may well encourage officers to look to a middle ground between a reprimand and court.

    Only some aren't really offences at all and seem like a list of mild annoyances, put together by someone with a chip on their shoulder.

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