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DONCASTER A businessman who tried to avoid a driving ban by fitting his car with a device that blocked police speed guns, left, has been banned from driving. John Eady, 61, of Carter Knowle Road, Sheffield, was disqualified for 12 months and fined £5,000 at Doncaster Crown Court after he was found guilty of perverting the course of justice earlier this month by having a £350 transponder device on his Range Rover that meant a police laser speed gun registered an error message. Eady, who owns a laboratory equipment business, already had nine points on his licence.
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I am HONORED to know John Eady and he is as upstanding a gentleman as you can imagine!If he felt it was a MISTAKE it was a MISTAKE; The judge went WAY overboard in this definite SLAP to his driving privileges..We in America HAVE these devices, if anything they are a REMINDER to slow down,as the ones here DETECT the presence of a speed gun, the driver slows, and accidents are PREVENTED! AS usual the courts are chiefly interested in reaching their QUOTA for the month, so they target a man like John!There is no JUSTICE here, just GREED..
Tally Haugen, Statesville, NC, United States
Michelle's argument about the speedometer is so deeply flawed to be laughable.
If we accept this as a fact then I assume she will not be looking in the rear view mirror, which is equally distracting, and she will also be campaigning for the removal of sound systems, SatNav and all the other distractions that are equally as dangerous.
Cunobelin, Portsmouth, Hampshire
Keeping the needle below the limit means spending more time looking at your needle than the road. Over anxious statistically driven police will happily fine you for a few MPH over the limit. What is better, hitting someone at a lower speed, or not hitting them at all?
Michelle Knight, Haywards Heath, West Sussex
Most drivers want to go faster anyway, just that they're afraid of being nabbed. So why not just raise the speed limit (to say 130 kph, like in the rest of Europe). There'd be less speeding and probably safer too, 'cos drivers would be paying attention instead of peeved by boredom.
Stu Savory, Paderborn, Germany
Given that speeding drivers are considerably more likely to kill someone - and he clearly intended to speed (otherwise why fit the device) - he should surely have been jailed. There is an easy, legal and totally guaranteed way to beat police speed guns and safety cameras - keep the needle on your speedo below the limit!
Howard, Bristol, UK
There's no justice in the current road safety laws. How can trying to avoid an unjust law be perverting the course of Justice? Surely "perverting the course of the income generating cash cow" would be a more appropriate accusation!
Andy Cunningham, Sandhurst, UK