Banned driver was over drink drive limit

23.07.10

A BANNED motorist who was twice the drink drive limit has been jailed for five months.

Limbi Banda was weaving along Station Road, Swindon, in a Ford Fiesta without the lights on in the early hours of the morning.

When the 24-year-old was arrested he was found to not only be disqualified from driving but also on a suspended sentence for assault.

Lynne Henderson, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court the car was spotted in the town centre at about 4.15am on Sunday, April 18.

She said when he was taken to the police station Banda, who was driving the car, was found to be more than twice the drink drive limit.

It was also found that he was on a three year driving ban imposed in October 2008 for his second drink driving offence.

When he was questioned he said he had been in a nightclub where he had three pints of beer before volunteering to drive a car belonging to a woman he met.

Miss Henderson said he had also been put on a three month suspended sentence in February last year after admitting assaulting a man in Southend town centre.

Source: Swindon Advertiser

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One driver who had reportedly been driving minicabs in Swindon for 50 years (really?) was delighted – he’d been caught out only the previous week because it had been raining hard, he was talking to his passenger and he “forgot it was a 50 mph area”. But he was “only doing 57 mph”, which of course makes it all right.

At least part of the reason the decision’s been welcomed – and the reason it was made in the first place – is that it’s perceived as a kind of stealth tax, with the proceeds ending up in Whitehall rather than in the local council’s coffers. Back in July 2008 when the proposal to remove the cameras was originally taken, the councillor responsible for transport issues in Swindon, Peter Greenhalgh, described fixed speed cameras as “a blatant tax on the motorist”. This in spite of the fact that the central government then releases money to the council for road safety measures.

Many of the doubts expressed over the decision have been based on fear that many drivers will take advantage of the absence of speed cameras to throw caution to the winds. The head of the Wiltshire and Swindon roads policing unit has said that there was a reduction of more than 30 per cent in the number of people killed or seriously injured in the year to April 2008, compared with pre-speed camera levels. Which makes a mockery of Greenhalgh’s assertion, quoted in in October 2008, that “in 2007/08 70 people had been killed on the streets of Swindon and this was proof that the cameras were not working to curb motorists’ excessive speed”. A political decision based on a dodgy use of statistics rather than a road safety one, then.

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