The chief executive of the company that installs the majority of speed cameras on Britain’s roads was banned from driving for six months today after admitting driving at more than 100mph.
Tom Riall, the boss of Serco’s civil government division, which supplies and installs the Gatso fixed radar cameras to police forces, was travelling at 102.9mph on the A14 in Newmarket, Suffolk, just before 1pm on 4 January, magistrates in Sudbury heard. The speed limit on the dual carriageway is 70mph.
Riall, 49, had two other driving convictions from the last three years, including another speeding offence, the court heard, meaning the six-point penalty imposed by magistrates took him past the 12-point mark, incurring the ban. He was also fined £300…
Serco, which has installed about 4,500 speed and traffic light cameras since 1992, began as a defence firm and over the years has won a series of lucrative government contracts in areas which also include prisons, leisure centres and NHS facilities.
You work long enough at jobs which are “above” the law – and sooner or later you think it applies to you – full time.
People should do that here, making up a fake plate, and getting the CEOs busted at red light cameras and speed cameras.
Too bad I had to click through to the comments page before I could read the article–the stupid Red Rock Casino ad covers the article, and I can’t find a way to close it.
If you want to make people stop reading this blog, that’s the way to do it.
Isn’t karma a bitch?
It’s another reason that these richer people should always drive hybrids.
You just don’t do speeds higher than 65MPH with a hybrid, even though you can.
In Other News – CNET review on Windows 7
http://news.cnet.com/windows-7-beta-first-impressions/
I don’t trust a reviewer that actually thinks the anti-virus scan built into Firefox downloads is a Microsoft Feature.
Good
Guy obviously didn’t watch TopGear. They demonstrated one had to drive about 172 mph to defeat the two-shot camera.
How is the guy that sells cameras to the government considered a “..job above the law…”?
I thought the UK was on the metric system. What’s with all this miles per hour stuff??
Oh, and the bastard got what he deserves. :).
What about the politicians who set up the camera?
Sadly the UK isn’t on the metric system for road signage. The roads are designed and built in meters but signed in miles. Everything else is in metric with the exception of pints for beer and milk.
Now if only the US would wise up pull it’s head out of it’s ass and convert. I’m sure in time.
And as a side note I like how the guy running the camera company is the one ticketed. I’ve heard in some states students put their principle’s plate numbers on their cars and drive past speed camera’s so they get cited 🙂 . Wish I could have done that in highschool. I hated my principle.
in the words of nelson from the simpsons… HA! HA!
# Chris
Use Firefox with Ad-Block and Noscript.
Boo frickin hoo, it will cost him 30,000 pounds for drivers.
Poetic justice.
The trouble is speed kills when people are driving these high speeds in area’s where the speed limits are much lower like city speed limits. More power to these camera’s catching these idiots who fail to have any common sense.
Nothing is that important to drive that fast unless your on a race track.
#11 — Do you feel it is okay to force Iraq to accept democracy?
Do you feel it is okay for Muslims to force Sharia Law on the rest of the world?
Why, then, do you feel it is okay to force the US to accept the metric system?
Send him to Gitmo and waterboard him daily.
And I like speeders.
#16, grommie,
Why, then, do you feel it is okay to force the US to accept the metric system?
Because the rest of the world is on the metric system. Metric is much easier to calculate and understand.
#7, “How is the guy that sells cameras to the government considered a “..job above the law…”?”
It’s not, but Eideard thinks he’s clever and insightful, so that’s the kind of silly comments you get from him.