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Thank goodness for justice
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FOLLOWING RECENT events in Northumberland we must all be relieved that a public menace has been dealt within the form of the local HGV driver reported recently. I understand he was forced to plead for his licence and livelihood in court for allowing his HGV to travel at 48rnph and 53mph on a major trunk road such as the Al.
I can imagine the gratitude of other road users — once terrified by the sight of this monster tearing up the Al — content that a criminal has been brought to book and who now creeps obediently along the highway, fearful of even the slightest infraction of the life saving 40mph speed limit imposed all those years ago.
I can also imagine the magistrates worrying that they may have been too lenient, and the police containing their outrage at such soft sentencing only by the prospect of his being a likely source of revenue quite soon from other cameras.
Other motorists should be calmer now as they contentedly sit behind HGVs at 40mph on a major highway knowing how it is so much less likely that its driver will career off in a murderous burst of speed, sometimes right past 50mph and even up to the 56mph at which they are thankfully governed.
Most of us applaudjustice when it is properly applied, and! expect that many of the Camera Partnership's employees and participants have no qualms about the rubbish they serve out to justify this kind of court appearance. But I suspect that a few of them, like many of us,must be asking what on earth we are coming to.
Alan Dodd Alnwick, Northumberland