[QUOTE 5483356, member: 9609"]you got the wrong end of the stick - Even though a Crime and an Offence are the same things (?), I was aiming at the down playment of what happens on the road (this being the parallel universe)
Hes got a crime to report ,
(something really serious and important has happened)
not a motoring offence, (as that is somehow not a real crime)(even though it kills and seriously injures more people)
So NO, I am not trivialising abuse and hoping the OP gets justice, but wishing the powers that be took road crime more seriously.[/QUOTE]
I don't think it was being played down. I think
@Drago was making the point that it is now not a motoring offence but a crime due to the racially aggrivating behaviour.