Driving Without Due Care & Attention?

Originally Posted by BigApe

Nope. I've only been done for the lesser offence of dangerous driving.

Thanks everyone - keep 'em coming

Originally Posted by blueto

thats funny

in fairness there were no pedestrians or on coming traffic but all the same i deserved a kick up the **** ( which i got!). what irritates me now is the police obssesion with speeding.

I knew a fella that turned his car over at about 4 in the morning on an empty motorway. Got a year ban. Within the year he rode a Ninja into a woman's car and broke his leg. You have no idea how close I was to grassing him up to try and keep him off the road a bit longer. Not sure if a broken leg was punishment enough.

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Originally Posted by teriyakimonkey

I knew a fella that turned his car over at about 4 in the morning on an empty motorway. Got a year ban.

This might be seen as a really stupid POV...

But why punish someone for being a tit? Surely his insurance would have given him a kicking after recieving the bill for the crash barriers, and he'd have a car to fix.
Nobody hurt

If he had passengers then it's a different story, endangering someone else is wrong

My brother rolled his car down an embankment ... he was driving too fast for the road conditions (heavy rain, pools of water on the road). He came round a bend and went straight through a pool of water, aquaplaned and went through a fence and down an embankment towards the motorway.

He was stuck in the car for several minutes until he got his bearings and then unclipped his seat belt and managed to crawl out of the drivers smashed window.

Then when the recovery truck arrived, the driver asked where the car driver was and my brother said "I'm here! Just!". The recovery truck driver then shook his head and said, "You're one lucky barsteward ... I've picked up cars that have been nowhere near as badly damaged as this and the driver was taken away in a body bag".

The police also said that had he been going any faster he would almost have certainly made it onto the oncoming carriageway of the motorway.

That was all he needed to learn his lesson.

OK this is wierd... I actually wrote on the perfect car thread... :S

Originally Posted by Xan173

Yup me too, entered a roundabout nipping in behind a car that was already on it a bit too close for the coppers liking. No impact, not speeding etc.

That was in Swindon shortly after I moved there from London. In a car.

Don't get me started on Swindon's roundabouts.

Originally Posted by busasean

yep in 1998, for wheeling my africa twin away from lights in barkingside, and then overtaking on the wrong side of bollards at 60 mph in a 30..... still on the back wheel. the copper in the big marked dog van behind me wasnt impressed! ?180 fine and 3 points (on top of the 6 I already had for speeding). lucky not to get banned. - took the bollocking on the chin up to the point where he starting to write out the summons whilst effing and blinding at me. last time I ever got points for anything due to my managing director going even more ballistic and threatening to sack me (and realising it wasnt big or clever doing wheelies in a town centre).

But to me thats no DWODCAA (short version ) as your clearly paying full attention to what your doing.

Thats just would be dangerous driving imo (legally blah blah).

Another reason though not to learn wheelies properly

Originally Posted by Daimo

But to me thats no DWODCAA (short version ) as your clearly paying full attention to what your doing.

Thats just would be dangerous driving imo (legally blah blah).

Another reason though not to learn wheelies properly

i used to be brilliant at wheelies, but this was the 3rd time i'd been caught (3rd time lucky!) so the writing was on the wall. knew i was going to get clobbered for it as well. the funny thing was about 2 months before i got caught by surrey traffic at 10pm on the m25 at 117mph. the copper was ****ing himself laughing that i got 117mph out of my africa twin. they commented on my good observation, lane discipline, and the fact that my africa twin had over 100,000 miles and was immaculate but gave me 3 points anyway for the fact that my pillion only had jeans, trainers and a paddock jacket on! although i have done some silly things I've had some good points made by coppers, but the majority of traffic coppers are lazy jobsworth tossers.

Originally Posted by BigApe

Nope. I've only been done for the lesser offence of dangerous driving.

At least with dangerous driving, you're paying attention and really having to focus on your speeding (or in your case, probably wheelie ). It's just deemed dangerous by people who aren't as aware of (or perhaps have lower acceptable thresholds for) risk than you. DWDC implies you aren't paying attention- not checking mirrors, engrossed in playing with the radio, etc.