The car can do highway speeds even if the driver can’t
A woman banned from driving for seven days after traveling at speeds of less than 10mph on the motorway told Reuters on Friday: “that road’s my nemesis.” Stephanie Cole, 58, of Fishponds, Bristol, straddled the hard shoulder and inside lane as she dawdled along a stretch of the M32 near her home last August.
In the back window of the car was a sign which said: “I don’t do fast, please overtake“.
Cole admitted driving without reasonable consideration at North Avon Magistrates’ Court on Friday and was told she would have to take another test at the end of the ban.
“I didn’t intend getting onto the motorway, but all of a sudden I found myself on it and I could not get off,” she told Reuters after the hearing.
There is a Disabled Drivers Association in the UK. Regulations have long recognized the needs of – and restrictions on – disabled motorists.
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Not to mention the question of why she had to drive out of town to Staples when I know of many stationary stores on her doorstep …
sure, but did they have Bic Stick Pens on sale?
The M32 is a nasty stretch of road, but like mmaddock said hardly unavoidable. Most of the roads in and around Bristol (and all cities I guess) are busy. Trucks drive all over the place. I wonder how this lady coped on the road at all.
I don’t feel particularly sorry for her, but this is a better outcome than her being broad sided by a big truck or pooped on by a nefarious road pigeon at night.
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oh yes, all the colors of the rainbow…
I do feel sorry for her. Being disabled I know how much of your life is constrained and being able to drive around is one of the few opportunities we have to go out and do things that everybody does. Granted, driving at such low speed on that stretch of motorway was highly dangerous. However, I think that they should have showed a bit more leniency towards her and perhaps given her support in the shape of motorway-driving lessons. Instead, she’ll have to retake the test which is just ludicrous as her fear of high speed roads will most certainly remain. We don’t hear of many disqualified dangerous drivers being forced to retake the test….