Safe Speed Forums

Or an alleged lack of it.

Briefly I was stopped a couple of nights ago on a local NSL dual-carriageway, which is punctuated with a number of roundabouts and has lighting. It was 1am and the road was empty and dry. I'd dipped my rearview mirror some miles back to stop being dazzled, so I didn't notice it was a local patrol car that had come up behind me having joined the road at one of the RAs. I went through the next RA at a fair pace, but without cutting lanes (all the RAs are two-lane) and accelerated up to 70mph at which point the blues and twos came on (incidently less than a mile from the county border). Once we'd move to a safe spot I got out and met a very angry cop who had "never seen driving like it!!" He took a walk around my car - a very tidy Mk2 Golf - and told me to get in the back of his car. There his collegue was checking the car - all legit. He asked me three times if I'd been drinking - I'd had a beer with a take-away 5 hrs earlier and told him this. The machine didn't register a thing. He asked what would have happened if a car had pulled on the RA in front of me? I said he be dead - I didn't mean to sound flippant, I was being serious. He wasn't best pleased with this answer and said so and remarked "I don't think you think you were doing anything wrong, and that this conversation is having no effect on you...Would you prefer a change of driving without due care and attention?" I clearly didn't, so I did a little forlock tugging and was sent on my way.

What's puzzling me is could they have made a lack of due care charge stick and on what grounds? I was in full control of the vehicle, didn't see let alone interact with any other cars, excepting theirs behind me.
So in the case of an alleged lack of Due Care and Attention can it be made to stick in these type of cicumstances?

Barkstar

_________________
The difference between intelligence and stupidity is that intelligence has limits.