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IN THE NEWS
Page 17
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Stuart Thomas gives us his regular round-up of the way the newspapers have covered the world of transport this week.
You have two choices. Either you stand in a crowded street while a man (or woman, the detail is unimportant) unloads a shotgun at you, or you sit in a top-of-the-range BMW while a driver accelerates up to 156.7mph on the A92 and has a chat on their mobile. Which would you opt for? No, this is not a problem the US armed forces face in their quest for creative interrogation techniques. But both scenarios carry the same danger, according to the Scottish Campaign against Irresponsible Drivers (SCID, geddit?). Quite how this has been measured remains unclear, but the comparison was drawn after police caught the offender driving recklessly over the bank holiday. Yes, the motorist was a plonker and fathomlessly reckless ("only a fraction less than the record,"
reveals The Herald and The Scotsman in Norris McWhirter mode) but give me the BMW thrills any day.
Crowds are so frustrating. The Herald, meanwhile, reported that an Orkney-based doctor thought he was going to be struck off when Scotland's longest married couple (73 years) appeared on national teatime TV news. Asked what the 94-year-old man's secret was, he bizarrely revealed that it must be his "nice doctor who lets me drive– even though I can't see". The paper claimed the "nice doctor" was overcome with fear and panic as his patient failed to explain that it was only 500 yards across a private
field to collect his pension.
The Scottish papers excelled in reporting tales of the surreal and frightening this week. The Scotsman also got hold of a story in which a man siphoned petrol out of his car at a German filling station because he had mistakenly filled his tank with the wrong fuel. Mistakes happen, or they do when you plan to avoid a mouthful of petrol by using a vacuum cleaner as your siphon. Result? Explosion and £1000 worth of damage.