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TC revokes and disqualifies serial speeder for a year
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A WELSH lorry driver with four speeding convictions in five years has had his LGV and bus driving licences revoked and been disqualified from holding such licences for 12 months.
Alun Griffiths, of Treherbert, Treorchy, had been called before Welsh Traffic Commissioner David Dixon at a Cardiff public inquiry.
The TC noted that Griffiths had been given a written warning in 2001 following a six-month ban under the 'totting up' rules. He had accumulated the penalty points for speeding, mostly on a motorway, on his way to work by car in the early hours of the morning.
Similar offences had been committed in 2003 and 2005, the final offence being driving an LGV at 50mph on a 40mph single carriageway. In August 2004 he was convicted of driving a car at over 90mph in wet conditions on a motorway; for this he was convicted of dangerous driving, disqualified from driving for 12 months and given a 50-hour Community Punishment Order. The return of his car driving licence had been subject to him taking an extended driving test.
Griffiths said that he had never had an accident involving death or injury. He admitted to speeding on other occasions when he had not been caught, but said he mostly complied with the speed limits, and had committed "only about one offence a year".
The TC said that rarely had he come across a driver with so many speeding convictions over such a short period. Griffiths had shown no contrition for his offences and did not seem to grasp the potential dangers of repeatedly exceeding the speed limits.
While one speeding offence might result from carelessness, a series of offences such as those committed by Griffiths must be considered as reckless.
Dixon concluded that a reckless approach to speeding in any type of vehicle could not be tolerated in someone holding vocational licences.