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No excuses for motorist caught driving with the bonnet up

12:30pm Thursday 18th March 2010 in


POLICE were taking no excuses from a motorist caught driving a car with the bonnet up.

Officers on patrol in Weymouth were amazed to find the bonnet of this car wide open, blocking the driver’s view.

Police said the driver claimed it was faulty and he was on his way to the garage to get it fixed.

He was stopped by police who are still investigating the incident.

The bizarre scene was uncovered as police took to the roads as part of the Dorset-wide No Excuse safety campaign – an initiative to educate people about bad driving.

During a day in Weymouth, officers detected around 30 offences associated with poor driver behaviour which could have led to serious crashes.

This included one man steering the car with his elbows while using both hands to roll a cigarette and another motorist found to be reading from a clipboard placed across the steering wheel.

In total across Dorset 2,364 driving offences have been picked up in the first six weeks of the campaign.

Comments(15)

Tictock says...
1:17pm Thu 18 Mar 10

At last some pro-active policing, but that will be wrong too for some.

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ben111 says...
1:36pm Thu 18 Mar 10

Thats insane , Had the man not heard of bungie ropes . or just rope ,

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Redgolfer says...
1:38pm Thu 18 Mar 10

About time too, get all untaxed, uninsured, no mot, motors off the road instead of collecting fines from camera's.

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ballstoit says...
1:50pm Thu 18 Mar 10

Driver was probably using it to keep the sun out of their eyes and should be applauded for ingenuity.
Aids engine cooling too.

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mikey2gorgeous says...
2:41pm Thu 18 Mar 10

Redgolfer wrote:
About time too, get all untaxed, uninsured, no mot, motors off the road instead of collecting fines from camera's.
Isn't the only real way to do this to have identity transponders fitted to all cars so roadside devices can detect any passing cars which flaunt the rules?

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Bob49 says...
2:49pm Thu 18 Mar 10

How dare the police persecute motorists ?

I had always thought (having read so many posts on this forum) that motorists automatically gained legal immunity the moment they sat behind the wheel.


Wonder where these self righteous defenders are now, as I certainly remember the ridiculous crud posted on here complaining about the action of the police in this matter.

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Bournefre says...
2:54pm Thu 18 Mar 10

Was it a man now?
Yesterday it was a 53 year old woman.
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http://news.bbc.co.u
k/1/hi/england/dorse
t/8572173.stm

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Syd Poumen says...
3:21pm Thu 18 Mar 10

Bournefre wrote:
Was it a man now? Yesterday it was a 53 year old woman. - http://news.bbc.co.u k/1/hi/england/dorse t/8572173.stm
Perhaps the hood was disguising her true identity.
Just wait till she gets her Easter bonnet up, then there will be some hot cross buns around!

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essexman says...
6:44pm Thu 18 Mar 10

Syd Poumen wrote:
Bournefre wrote:
Was it a man now? Yesterday it was a 53 year old woman. - http://news.bbc.co.u k/1/hi/england/dorse t/8572173.stm
Perhaps the hood was disguising her true identity.
Just wait till she gets her Easter bonnet up, then there will be some hot cross buns around!
Had the change been t'other way round, I'd have said it was the police questioning technique did it.

What an utter idiot!

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X Old Bill says...
7:21pm Thu 18 Mar 10

This item was published in the Dorset Echo a week ago. Has the runner with a cleft stick gone lame? Did the pigeon get lost? or maybe it was too misty for the semaphore.
In the meantime they could have read the same item in the National press or on seen it on the BBC and corrected it, but they didn't. Maybe the Echo still want to believe that the driver really was a man...

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BackOfTheNet says...
8:20pm Thu 18 Mar 10

Typical, all the police do is pick on motorists. I expect it was the fault of a speed camera or cyclist.



...sorry, wrong story ;)

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madgeman says...
11:28pm Thu 18 Mar 10

If the driver was an elderly female, she may have only been 3 feet tall, so probably would have only been looking through the bottom part of the screen anyway!

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madgeman says...
11:28pm Thu 18 Mar 10

If the driver was an elderly female, she may have only been 3 feet tall, so probably would have only been looking through the bottom part of the screen anyway!

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Laurie H Marsh says...
12:07pm Fri 19 Mar 10

madgeman wrote:
If the driver was an elderly female, she may have only been 3 feet tall, so probably would have only been looking through the bottom part of the screen anyway!
So what you are saying (twice), is that an elderly (thats an ageist statement) woman(sexist) short (vertically challenged) person is to blame.
Those three statements could, (SHOULD) cost you a lot of money!
Suggest you go underground!

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lemontree says...
1:39pm Fri 19 Mar 10

Hey madgeman, Iam 70 years, stand
just short of 6'(foot) have been driving for 45 years, and can see very clearly through the windscreen, and Iam a woman.
Still driving, and doing it in France

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