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PostPosted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 00:28 
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Apparently the Minister for Road Safety Stephen Ladyman has 9 Points on his driving licence.


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Ladyman last broke the speed limit by about 10mph in 2002 as he was driving on the A2 from London to his South Thanet constituency in Kent. He still has three points on his licence as a result of the offence and would have paid a £60 fine.

The six points he acquired from the other two speeding offences — picked up at roadworks on the M2 — are now “spent” because they were incurred more than three years ago.

When Ladyman first revealed his speeding convictions to the Kent on Sunday newspaper, he described them as “three silly lapses of judgment”.

Yesterday he said: “Politicians are human and have the same frailties as everyone else. The speed cameras worked. I was careless, I got caught and now I'm much more careful. That's exactly what they are supposed to achieve.”



last week he was on top gear claiming he had 9 points... have some expired and has he replaced them?



Apparently he was going to deliver a three point plan to reduce the numbers of speed cameras but feared that might get him banned
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I like the bit where he asked his wife if she would take the points... :o

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anton wrote:
last week he was on top gear claiming he had 9 points... have some expired and has he replaced them?


Perhaps. Or perhaps he was being economical with the truth to curry favour with the top gear audience? After '9 points' doesn't mean 9 active points does it?

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