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What worries me is the size of the dog......
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We'll have to see whether the police investigation leads to any charges being brought, and whether any charges result in a conviction.
But I wasn't entirely suprised to see that the BMW appears to have been driven by one of two men.
The Home Office has intersting figures on gender-breakdown of motoring offences: see Table 12 in www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs05/hosb0605.pdf
88% of those convicted for driving offences were male, and there is no category of offence listed in that table in which men accounted for less than 76% of those convicted by the courts. In that year, men accounted for 96% of dangerous driving convictions, 85% of careless driving convictions, 82% of speed limit offences, etc.
Of course, maybe these two men were driving entirely safely and just had some very bad luck ...
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Since the driver was killed, one imagines it might be rather difficult to press charges.
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Perhaps the driver was trying to emulate the likes of Johnny Kidd or Evel Knievel.
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Do you mean Johnny Kidd, as in the Pirates or Eddie Kidd, as in a wheel chair.
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Do you mean Johnny Kidd, as in the Pirates or Eddie Kidd, as in a wheel chair. Doyle
I meant Eddie of course.
But I do remember Johnny as well ~ Please Don't Touch, entered the UK top 30 on 12th June 1959 and peaked at no. 26 for 3 weeks. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be!
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Local news this morning said both occupants alive but in critical condition
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According to the report he is still alive
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88% of those convicted for driving offences were male, and there is no category of offence listed in that table in which men accounted for less than 76% of those convicted by the courts. In that year, men accounted for 96% of dangerous driving convictions, 85% of careless driving convictions, 82% of speed limit offences, etc.
They were driving fast to escape a nagging wife, though.
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this idiot must have been doing a 100 or more.
i was watching the pictures last night on tv.......some resident was asking for speed reducing measures....how do you stop these sort of idiots ,,when they wouldnt take much notice of the odd chicane or ramp,,,?????
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They were driving fast to escape a nagging wife, though.
Any excuse will do, won't it Patently? ;-)
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