WARNED SPEEDING LORRY DRIVER: SUMMONS
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APRIVATE motorist was fined 12 Bedford last week for obstructi the police by givinz, warning to a lot driver alleged to be travelling at '40m.p.h., that a police carwas followi him.
The Commercial Motor legal exp writes: There are occasions when timelywarning of a police, trap to fellow road-user is perfectly legal, a occasions when it is not.. It was hi in Bastable v. Little in 1907 that person Who simply gave drivers not of the existence of a police trap, a where there was no evidence of a illegality already being committed, v not himself committing any offen However, in 1910 in the case of Betts Stevens a distinction was made whi justified a conviction for " obstructin the police.
An A.A. scout warned vehicles tl they were approaching a police tr in exactly the same way as in 1 previous case, but the difference lay the fact that there was evidence ti the cars were travelling at an ille; speed. It was said by one judge: it quite easy to distinguish the ca where a warning is given with 1 object1 of preventing the commission a eririe, from the cases in which 1 crime is being committed and 1 warning is given in order that the co mission of the crime may be suspene while there is danger of detection."