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An unconventional way to stop a drink driver!
With Russia due to host the 2018 Football World Cup, a great deal of emphasis has been placed on improving the country's infrastructure and security. Security is a major issue as Russian policing methods have often come under scrutiny. Back in March 2010, Russian Police in Moscow used...
It’s a fair cop!
PC Allonby, a serving police officer in Barrow, Cumbria, has been found guilty of drink driving after he was found to have 48 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35mg per 100 ml of breath.
PC Allonby is alleged to have been driving a police vehicle when...
Double Trouble!
Imagine you are arrested for drink driving and taken to your local police station. You are breathalysed and found to be over the legal drink drive limit. You are then charged with the offence of drink driving . You are then released from police custody and on leaving the station you...
Committing a motoring offence; taboo or not taboo that is the question?
A recent study conducted by the Centre for the Study of Integrity, which was set up by the University of Essex, suggests that motoring offences such as drink driving, speeding and failing to stop and report an accident are becoming more socially acceptable when compared to societal...
Two-thirds of drivers admit to potential dangerous driving activity
Nearly two-thirds of UK drivers interviewed in a survey admitted taking part in an activity behind the wheel which could have been considered dangerous driving if reported to the police. The research by Sainsbury's Car Insurance revealed that 64% of motorists said they could...
Casualty figures at speed camera sites misleading
A Department for Transport (DfT) report says that there is what it describes as a 'lack of clarity' over the way statistics relating to casualty figures at speed camera sites are compiled. The report by two academics concluded that the previous published data showing that...
Motorcyclist who caused death by careless driving stays in jail
A motorcyclist's prison term for causing his best friend's death by careless driving will remain at its original length after the man's lawyers failed to convince the Court of Appeal to reduce it. The crown court hearing into the case against the 32-year-old Stoke-on-Trent man heard he had a...
