Audi driver blasts court for costing him £4500 for passing cyclist too close.

[Ming the Merciless]

The Audi is the Reliant Robin of the 21st century

 

[tyred]

Which really makes an Audi the Ford Cortina for the 21st century!

I learned to drive in a Cortina GL with wooden dash and chrome strips on the door pad so I am superior to those lowly L drivers.

 

[Cycleops]

Which really makes an Audi the Ford Cortina for the 21st century!

Can’t really imagine anyone aspiring to a Cortina back then.

 

[DRM]

Can’t really imagine anyone aspiring to a Cortina back then.

But you started being a rep in an Escort, then you could work your way up to a Cortina 1.6L , then 2.0GL if you were really good at selling, making them as common as muck, which is what Audi’s and BMW’s are now, not something special.

 

[mjr]

The only reason that he got such a big fine is that he refused to cooperate... He could have gone on an awareness course but refused to. Presumably because he is such an amazingly safe driver, and it is the rest of the world that is wrong...

Didn't one of @Arjimlad's photography subjects do worse? Accepted an awareness course ( thereby accepting his guilt) and then not show, resulting in an easy prosecution and conviction.

 

[mjr]

I’ll bet next time he gets the offer of an awareness course he’ll jump at it.

Will he get offered an awareness course until this conviction is "spent"? I hope not.

 

[Arjimlad]

Didn't one of @Arjimlad's photography subjects do worse? Accepted an awareness course ( thereby accepting his guilt) and then not show, resulting in an easy prosecution and conviction.

Not to my knowledge!

 

[mjr]

Not to my knowledge!

Hmm. I wonder who I'm thinking of, then!

 

[T4tomo]

But you started being a rep in an Escort, then you could work your way up to a Cortina 1.6L , then 2.0GL if you were really good at selling, making them as common as muck, which is what Audi’s and BMW’s are now, not something special.

I once had a Ford Granada Scorpio as a company car - absolute Billy Big Balls!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I once had a Ford Granada Scorpio as a company car - absolute Billy Big Balls!

God they were shoot weren’t they?

 

[Alex321]

God they were shoot weren’t they?

Not quite as bad as the Sierra. If somebody blew a candle out in the next town they'd bump sideways.

 

[T4tomo]

God they were shoot weren’t they?

It was like driving a comfortable powerful barge! It was a late 90's model so they'd sorted out some of the worst of barge like characteristics by then to be fair.

I'd previously been driving a 306XSi which was way less BHP but actually went where you pointed it around corners.

 

[Arjimlad]

Hmm. I wonder who I'm thinking of, then!

https://road.cc/content/news/nmotd-783-ps60-fine-ends-ps2460-293549 possibly this aggressive wazzock?

 

[mjr]

https://road.cc/content/news/nmotd-783-ps60-fine-ends-ps2460-293549 possibly this aggressive wazzock?

No, that one didn't accept the course but instead appealed it, failed to show, convicted in his absence, appealed that and failed to show again! There's probably a plentiful supply of these daffodils.

I'm totally using " I've been bitten by a squirrel " as an excuse to skip an unpleasant meeting, though !