Flat-rate
23rd March 1979, Page 63
23rd March 1979
Page 63
Page 63, 23rd March 1979
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'justice'
Mind you, this change would not automatically ensure justice. A friend of mine, an ex-CM man, was driving along a main road in London when a foreign woman who had held a licence for a month careered out of a side turning, ignoring a give-way line, and struck the front of his car. She continued across the road, screaming her head off, and her car came to rest against a garden wall.
My friend was somewhat taken aback to be summoned for careless driving. He was astounded when, on arrival with a lawyer at the magistrates' court, an usher forecast: "It'll cost you £25:
"But I'm the injured party,my friend protested.
-That doesn't make any difference," said the usher. "Everyone's being fined £25 today."
He was, too.