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  • because he asked me to find out because someone told him could and i am just curious as i didnt think there was.
  • scbk
    scbk Posts: 1,216 Forumite
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    he drove his car (slowly)for about 30ft with some 15yr olds on bonnet, one fell off and ended up in hospital.

    I did that within a week of passing my test:o
    Though it was for a few hundred feet and they didn't fall off :rotfl:
  • ekkygirl
    ekkygirl Posts: 514 Forumite
    because he asked me to find out because someone told him could and i am just curious as i didnt think there was.
    Don't you just hate how people use your questions to beat you with? They don't even answer the question.

    Like the peeps who have answered I think you get offered the course at the time, if its available in your area, depending on how dangerous or fast you were going. My boy already had 9 points when he was stopped for speeding and when he told the copper they gave him the speeeding course instead of points, cost him £60.

    No he doesn't speed everywhere, 2 lots were for running a red light. Waiting to turn right, really busy road lights change stuck in middle of road, gotta go, or cause an accident, 3 points no defense, he cottoned on after the second time at the same lights and now doesn.t attempt to turn there. Nice little earner for the government.
  • lauren_1
    lauren_1 Posts: 2,067 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    If it were legal to give rides on your bonnet it would be in the highway code, it could also be interpreted as running over a pedestrian!
  • I'm glad he's been banned. Perhaps he should think about what he did wrong rather than try and get back in the seat again.

    He'll probably wrap his head around a telegraph pole one day. Imagine being the emergency services and having to clean that up.
  • scbk wrote: »
    I did that within a week of passing my test:o
    Though it was for a few hundred feet and they didn't fall off :rotfl:
    he had only passed his test for a week as well, they then compounded his car for 3 months.
  • thanks for that pew.

    were you ever young once and done anything wrong.
    obviously not you must be a saint.!!!!!!!!!

    hope you haven't got children, god help them if they do anything wrong.

    of course he knows what he has done is wrong.

    apart from the fact he couldn't sleep or eat for months with worry. his car and phone were kept by police for 3 months, and then was sold to repay the money for police storage charges. then he lost his license for 12 months.

    but obviously all his fault, doesn't matter that the underage 15 year olds who jumped on his car were p%ssed, and can now claim compensation.

    and the fact that our mother has been ill from all this.


    and just for all you saints out there. even his probation officer has said he shouldn't have got banned!!!!!!!!!! and the injured childs family have said it was a childish prank gone wrong.
  • lauren_1 wrote: »
    If it were legal to give rides on your bonnet it would be in the highway code, it could also be interpreted as running over a pedestrian!

    . ive seen loads of people do this kind of stupid thing.
  • goldspanners
    goldspanners Posts: 5,910 Forumite
    ekkygirl wrote: »


    No he doesn't speed everywhere, 2 lots were for running a red light. Waiting to turn right, really busy road lights change stuck in middle of road, gotta go, or cause an accident, 3 points no defense, he cottoned on after the second time at the same lights and now doesn.t attempt to turn there. Nice little earner for the government.

    if he had looked beyond the bonnet of his car he would have probably seen the road wasnt clear,then he wouldnt have got stuck in the middle of the road.
    this isnt just a nice little earner for the government,it teachin people the hard way how to drive consideratly.ie. not blocking lanes off because he didnt have the sense (or care) to just sit back for a moment and wait for his lane to clear.

    and he hasnt learned,he is just avoiding learning by not using the junction.
    ...work permit granted!
  • if he had looked beyond the bonnet of his car he would have probably seen the road wasnt clear,then he wouldnt have got stuck in the middle of the road.
    this isnt just a nice little earner for the government,it teachin people the hard way how to drive consideratly.ie. not blocking lanes off because he didnt have the sense (or care) to just sit back for a moment and wait for his lane to clear.

    and he hasnt learned,he is just avoiding learning by not using the junction.

    I do agree with you, but i think the legal driving age should be higher as i dont think 17yr olds are ready for driving mentally as they have no common sense and dont seem to be able to see any danger.

    i think they should be made to do so many lessons in the dark, wet and after passing, so many on the motorway ( imagine just passing your test you can then get on the motorway, a recipe for disaster)
    AND IM TRAINING TO BE A DRIVING INSTRUCTOR!!!!!!! i am mad though!
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