Naughty RS driver ...

In many cases it is because on a nice quiet motorway, there is no more danger driving at 80 than 70, whereas stealing the crown jewels or nutting someone is plainly wrong.

In this video, for all we know, there could be a man with a bomb strapped to his chest in the middle of the road. Unlikely, but taking a video out of context can certainly bring wrong conclusions.

I was mulling over the other day how strange the legal system is...

We are all expected to obey all applicable laws all the time, and if we don't we are subject to penalties up to and including permanent incarceration.

We receive little or no training as to what the law actually is.

We are not really notified officially when the law changes.

The law is so complex that even fully trained professionals have to specialise in limited areas of it to get a reasonable understanding.

The process that establishes whether we broke the law or not requires at least half a dozen expensive and fully trained professionals and takes at least hours, and possibly days or even weeks.

Originally posted by Old Timer Originally posted by JimC Sure, but are you going to prosecute everyone on every motorway who indulges in the far more dangerous habit of driving too close to the vehicle in front, which is why we get pileups in the first place? They'd never stop issuing tickets... So your logic is that law braking should be allowed if a more serious offence is going on unpunished? That is some crooked logic JimC ... Society is run and ordered through rules/laws; some may seem petty but they generally have a purpose. In principal none are more or less important to enforce than any other. In this case these people may be preventing emergency services reaching someone in desperate need ...

Since you've broadened the topic slightly.......do you observe all laws all the time regardless of the rights or wrongs?

Sure, but are you going to prosecute everyone on every motorway who indulges in the far more dangerous habit of driving too close to the vehicle in front, which is why we get pileups in the first place? They'd never stop issuing tickets...

The striking thing about that video is that just about everyone in that lane turned off illegally. Now maybe that's because it just happened the video caught an unusual bunch of reckless drivers, or, just maybe, something's going on that isn't immediately obvious from the video.

Edited by JimC - 21 Jul 15 at 3:36pm

Originally posted by JimC Oh I see a problem all right, damn silly thing to do. But the smart money is someone did something a damn sight worse up the road to cause an accident that made the jam in the first place, and we aren't pillorying them.

Edited by Old Timer - 21 Jul 15 at 2:36pm