BAD drivers caught out by Dorset’s No Excuse team are continuing to come up with a long list of reasons for their misdemeanours.
The team were out in force over the school holidays to detect reckless and careless drivers.
In a bid to warn other motorists to drive sensibly and within the law – Dorset Road Safe has published examples of last month’s cases.
A male driver was stopped for using his mobile while driving his car and he said he couldn’t use his hands-free kit because it had sand in it and wasn’t working properly.
A driver was stopped on Dorset Way for overtaking a police car at speed in the 50 mph zone.
The driver stated he thought the road was subject to a 70 mph limit. The officers pointed out that he was driving at 87 mph.
In Poole, police officers were amazed to see an older motorist driving at 44mph in a 30mph limit with her boot lid open. To the astonishment of the police officer, she hadn’t even realised the boot was open.
Close to Wareham a man was stopped for driving without a seatbelt and asked the officer not to give him a ticket claiming: “I’m only a poor farmer.”
Unsurprisingly, his pleas fell on deaf ears.
Elsewhere, a Harley Davidson motorbike rider was in his laid back position while speeding at 62mph along a 40mph stretch of road.
When asked why he was speeding he told officers: “The problem is my speedo is down low and I’m too fat to see it.”
Officers stopped a woman for not wearing a seatbelt. The police officer soon discovered she has been driving for 11 years without a licence and had no insurance. Her car was seized.
And in true Basil Fawlty style, one young moped rider – when stopped for speeding at 41mph in a 30mph zone – gave his moped the thrashing of its life. And then he got his ticket.
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