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Kickstart
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PostPosted: 13:51 - 03 May 2005    Post subject: Drink Driving Reply with quote
Hi

Hows this for hypocritical. Councillor who has campaigned over speeding and managed to get radar guns issued to local busy bodies has been caught drink driving.

https://www.newarkadvertiser.co.uk/southwell/southnews.htm

Newark Advertiser wrote:

A councillor who championed road safety has been caught drink-driving.
Andy Gregory (49) of Park Lane, Southwell, appeared before Newark magistrates on Monday, when he admitted driving with excess alcohol.

He was fined £300, ordered to pay £34 costs and banned for a year, which will be reduced by three months if he completes a course.

The court heard Gregory was followed by Pc Mark McTiernan after leaving The Reindeer Inn, Westgate, Southwell at 11pm on April 20.

He visited the pub on his way home to his wife, who is eight months pregnant, after a meeting of Southwell Town Council.

Pc McTiernan stopped Gregory on Church Street after he failed to indicate and because he was driving over-cautiously.

Involved He smelt alcohol on his breath and a test found Gregory had 55mg of alcohol in 100ml of his breath, the legal limit being 35mg.

Mr Julian Bruce, defending, said Gregory felt he could no longer be involved with the community speed check campaign, launched earlier this month.

Under the scheme, volunteers use speed guns to catch speeders, who receive police warnings.

Mr Gregory was the co-ordinator in Southwell. Mr Bruce said Gregory hoped his position on Southwell Town council would be safe.

Mr Bruce told the court that as long as there was a limit to drink and drive, people would make errors.

He said Gregory would travel to Cottam Power Station near Retford, where he is an office manager, thanks to the help of a friend.


All the best

Keith
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bazza
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PostPosted: 13:54 - 03 May 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
Someone tell the cunt to go round and collect all those radar guns he handed out and replace them with breathalysers.
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Mr.Everready
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PostPosted: 13:56 - 03 May 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Mr Bruce told the court that as long as there was a limit to drink and drive, people would make errors.


That makes it alright then ! Rolling Eyes
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mchaggis
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PostPosted: 14:33 - 03 May 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
People will make errors if there is a limit because they don't know how much they can afford to drink. I'm all in favour of a near zero tolerance approach to it. Mind you, there are plenty of perfectly legal ways to be similar incapable of driving. For instance, do you have to declare if you're on opiod painkillers?
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