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Speeding Penalties

Asked for Downing Street’s view regarding more points for higher speeds, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said that he had seen this story on the front page of The Times; this was a speculative story about a forthcoming consultation document that had not yet been published in which this could be one of the options. The consultation had not been published yet and by definition consultations are consultations, not decisions.

Put that the Transport Minister had seemed fairly keen on the idea, the PMS said that clearly there was an issue about speeding and road safety which was what was being consulted on, but that this was an option in a consultation document which had not yet been published.

Put that the Prime Minister’s view was that people should wait to see what the consultation document said, the PMS said that there was an issue in relation to speeding and what more could be done in relation to that. In order to deal with road safety issues, there will be a consultation, there would be a number of options, but the consultation document had not been published yet.

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Considering that 5% (4 % in rural areas) of rta’s are due to speeding.Why isn’t the government investigating these road safety issues?? Is it because you can’t earn much money from them??
Comment by Gordon Pullar — 18 Nov 2007 on 10:12 pm | Link

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