Monday 29 August 2011

Dodgy Driver Banned


A web designer, cleared of driving a car while high on drugs, has been banned from the roads for six months after police caught him racing away from traffic lights and cutting up traffic.

Alexander William Daniel, 22, of Teffont Evias, Salisbury, Wiltshire was visiting friends in the capital when stopped by City of London police.

He pleaded guilty at City of London Magistrates’ Court (pictured) to driving his Ford Mondeo, without due care and attention, in London Wall on February 19.

A charge of driving while unfit through drugs, which Daniel denied, was withdrawn by the Crown Prosecution Service.

Prosecutor Miss Alexa Morgan told the court at was 7:25pm on a Saturday night when police began following Daniel due to the erratic manner of his driving.

“At the traffic lights the vehicle took off at speed with wheels spinning and cut in front of other traffic.

“It did the same again at the next set of traffic lights, with the defendant speeding away and braking.”

Daniel, who has eight penalty points on his driving licence, has motoring convictions for speeding and driving without due care.

He told the court he was running late for a meeting with a friend and any disqualification would hit his fledgling business hard as he lives in the countryside with his mother - a fifteen minute drive from the nearest train station without a regular bus route.

“Your life may become more inconvenient, but you will not suffer exceptional hardship,” bench chairwoman Jennifer Chapman told Daniel.

“Our first concern is public safety.”

The magistrates fined Daniel £100, with £115 costs, endorsed his licence with six penalty points and disqualified him from driving for six months.

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