Top UK Police speed enforcer loses licence for speeding
6 Dec, 2007
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Justice for UK motorists today as South Yorkshire Police Chief Constable Meredydd Hughes, the official in charge of proposing rules and regulations for traffic policing across England, has lost his right to drive for the next 42 days.
His lawyer offered Hughes’ guilty plea to the charge of driving 90 MPH in a 60 zone (145km/h in a 95k zone). A police speed camera photographed Hughes while he was off-duty driving his Audi A8 sedan.
Hughes has long been the voice behind the speed camera campaigns in the UK, arguing that speeding by any amount is reckless and will be punished, but 50km/h over the limit is a little extreme!
“Were you driving safely Mr Hughes? If you were, then you have been lying to us about the importance of sticking to the speed limit, we don’t believe for a single second that Mr Hughes was driving dangerously and he must now tell us the truth about the role of speed limits in road safety.” UK group Safe Speed’s Paul Smith asked Mr Hughes.
Mr Hughes has been punished by being stripped of his current position and put in charge of ACPO’s security planning efforts for the 2012 Olympic games. We found this video that better explains why UK motorists should be angry at the hypocrisy that Mr Hughes has shown.
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December 6th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
A cop who owns an A8!! Revenue raising exposed for what it is.
Speed cameras, as someone wrote here the other day, are absolutely useless in stopping speeding drivers. They usually maintain their speed after the camera has taken their pic.
What on earth happened to loud looking fluro police cars which could be seen for miles (UK cars) and slowed traffic for the equivalent distance around them.
I’ll tell what happened - the government discovered economics 101. Reduce wages and capital investment, while at the same time, increase earnings by 1000%. As I said, economics 101 - which has absolutely nothing to do with saving lives!
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December 6th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Yeah good call Tony, I couldn’t agree more. Even seeing a cop on the road slows me down, cameras don’t.
The trouble with cameras is you get to know where they are and back off accordingly. Flawed logic really.
This UK incident has been going on for weeks now, and I for one am pleased he’s had the proverbial book thrown at him.
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December 6th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Should have been kicked out of the force for being a bloody hypocrite, I wonder how many years he was getting away with it before camera caught him out.
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December 6th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
And thats the problem that there is no way around.. Cops are human too and they do stupid things too but have the power to punish us for doing the same. I wouldnt believe anyone that told me they’d never sped. Everyone does it whether deliberately or through not being attentive to the speed because they are concentrating on staying alive!!!
I just hope that he is punished in the harshest way that anyone else that has done 50kmh over!!! He should also be stood down from his position.. The problem with that is, the next person will speed to some degree its just a question of whether he will get caught..
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December 6th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
He sounded like a pompous,arrogant and sanctimonious buffoon on the youtube clip.He had a “take no prisoners” attitude as if he had a God-like mandate to do so-What a disgrace,he should’ve lost his license for 12 months minimum and ordered to carry out a 12 month community based order to clean and maintain the speed cameras.In addition, he should’ve been ordered to write out “I MUST NOT SPEED” 10,000 times,so that the message about the danger of speeding sinks into his thick policeman’s skull.
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December 6th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
A8’s are prolly cheap pver there. and also… HAHA, dont this guy look like a noob now.
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December 6th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
Hahaha Gold! What a wanker!
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December 7th, 2007 at 10:47 am
I love it…
But i can’t see the video!?
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December 7th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
had a small issue there,
fixed now.
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December 8th, 2007 at 8:28 am
hey we all speed a little, maybe cops should look at if someone is actually driving dangerously or irresponsibly, rather than if they are going a couple kays over government set speed limits!! it just takes commen sense if we all drive to the conditions of the road rather than watching speedonit would be a smarter system,, and book the hoons/dangerous or irresponsible drivers…
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December 8th, 2007 at 9:37 am
All you need is a Typhoo… they go so quick the speed camera’s cant catch them
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December 8th, 2007 at 11:01 am
^Really?
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December 8th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Yeah Typhoon is unbeatable, Ive got mine to 350… 500rwkw
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December 13th, 2007 at 11:50 am
My toilets pushing over 970rwkw through a 9″, glide and 28″ slicks out the back. That’s with pump, none of this C16 crap for my double flusher. Care to be beaten by a shitter?
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December 18th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
^^^^What kind of name is “GRISGT”? :| you love your crapy starfire 4. NO NO NO you think its fantastic.
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December 18th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
^What are you on? starfire fours are fantastic they run great and powerfull - more than 950rwkw.. looser!
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