Tackling 'inappropriate' driving (shurely 'illegal and dangerous'? Ed.) Only on trunk roads though, it seems.
http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/scotland/police-scotland-target-dangerous-drivers-1-2895180
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Police Scotland target dangerous drivers
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Posted 12 years ago #
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... led by the Trunk Road Patrol Group (TRPG) "and will be supported by the fourteen Divisional Road Policing Units (DRPU) together with staff from Local Policing Areas." (one of the few phrases not used from the full press release http://www.scotland.police.uk/whats-happening/news/2013/april/161362/ )
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Irritating that what the head of road policing for Police Scotland calls "inappropriate", the journalist calls correctly "dangerous".
I suspect it will be business as usual then, despite Superintendent Iain Murray's commitment to make "Scotland’s roads safer for all who use them".
Robert
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Hmmm. Perhaps "inappropriate" allows them some wiggle room when someone does something unequivocally daft but in good visibility/at low speed/with no-one else anywhere nearby when smarmy excuses of not having posed any actual danger can be trotted out after the fact and contrary to the potentially great potential danger. Unfortunately it might also be used against absolute safety, such as where someone causes a frustrated queue by not whizzing about like a nutbag (if the polis ever invoke the same "appropriate to the conditions" used by some drivers as a preface to explaining how it wasn't their fault that they crashed into something for whose presence their driving style did not allow).
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For the Police and Courts "dangerous driving" has a specific meaning, and "inappropriate driving" would cover many more types of bad driving. So there are far more drivers guilty of offences which involve inappropriate driving than dangerous driving.
This is partly why some drivers aren't convicted of dangerous driving even when their driving has caused real danger.
"A person drives dangerously when the way his standard of driving falls far below what would be expected of a competent and careful driver and it would be obvious to a competent and careful driver that driving in that way would be dangerous. Both parts of the definition must be satisfied for the driving to be "dangerous" within the meaning of the Act. (Section 2A(1) RTA 1988)."
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/p_to_r/road_traffic_offences_guidance_on_prosecuting_cases_of_bad_driving/Posted 12 years ago #
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