10 Driving Offences You Didn't Know Existed

In the USA drunk sleeping in car is ok if you don't have keys. But laws vary by states.

Standing on the footpegs is illegal in KS even though the KS riding manual advises to do so over bumps. This is known as stunt riding and fines are stiff.

 

https://blog.nationwide.com/weird-traffic-laws-by-state/

 

http://www.pdalaw.co.uk/services-for-you/road-traffic-offences/drunk-in-charge/
Sounds like he could have had a defence or two available there, was the car park still a public place? and could he argue that he had no intention to drive?

 

Years ago a mate of mine had a skinful and decided quite rightly not to drive home, so he kipped down in his car for the night in the pub car park after asking the landlord if that would be OK. He had the presence of mind not to have the keys on him, which was just as well as the police came by later and checked on his car.
They woke him up, asked him what he was doing and he explained that he was too drunk to drive so he was sleeping here for the night. Plod then asked him where the keys were - "Ah, I knew you would ask that" he said "It's not a problem, I've locked them in the boot!"
Plod drove off laughing

 

My brother got done in Scotlandshire when he was a young man and dating
Some Jockinese lassy
He had an argument with her about haggis or something
Went and got pissed with his car and decided not to drive back and sleep in it until the morning
Police spotted the steamed up windows and woke him up
He got fined and 10 points on his license
I got a cheap Ford Capri because he couldn’t afford the insurance after that

 

Every cloud eh?

 

I won't worry too much about these 10 traffic offences.
Traffic law enforcement is, I believe, at an all time low.
It is a lawless free for all out there on the roads.
We love to keep having rules for this and rules for that, trouble is no agency enforces them, unless that is the agency concerned happens to be a camera, of course.

 

One of our 44 tonne artics had a puncture, pulled up at side of road as soon as he noticed as he left a customers premises on an industrial estate in Rainham. Local government parking enforcement officer arrives shortly afterwards, he tells the driver to move or he will issue a ticket. Driver explains the puncture etc and says he can't move until the tyre is repaired, the cock womble then issues a ticket anyway!

I have appealed the PCN, but surely common sense should have dictated that it wasn't issued in the first place? Instead of which my time & that of the council official who deals with the appeal is wasted, why? ... I guess it will be something to do with quotas of ticket issued.

This is a current situation, therefore ongoing so no outcome as yet, below is the text of my appeal, I also sent the tyre company call out sheet etc showing the location & vehicle reg.

"Our driver had a puncture & had to pull over, it was not safe to drive a 44 tonne articulated truck on the highway with a flat tyre, our driver explained this to the officer issuing the ticket but they still issued? I have attached the Bridgestone Tyres call out paperwork which shows the location & registration number of the vehicle.
I would contest the legality of the ticket being issued in the first place, as a HGV vehicle operator we have our first priority with the safety of our driver & other road users, moving a vehicle before the repair to the tyre would have been dangerous."

 

However if it is closed off at night by a barrier or similar then it becomes private and the Road Traffic Act does not apply.

 

That’s a bit risky too, the minimum penalty for failing to provide a specimen is a 12 month ban and a fine of 75-125% of your weekly income, if found guilty of course.

 

Many moons ago I visited a friend for the weekend and parked my bike in his garage for the night, the garage wasnt integral but on the estate, you know the type, a row of several garages within the estate at one end of the parking spaces. the entrance into the estate was marked private. Anyway on the morning I was leaving on the way down to the garage I realised I'd forgotten something in the flat so went up to get it and asked my friend to get the bike out the garage and chucked him my keys. When I got down to the garage he was outside stood next to my bike chatting to a policeman.
I walked up and asked if there was a problem, the policeman asked me if this was my bike and I said yes he then asked if I'd given permission for my friend to ride it, well I hadn't really just asked him to get it out of the garage but I wouldn't have minded either way. It transpired that my mate had started it up rode out of the garage and did a little circuit of the garage access road, a dead end with garages either side. Plod then asked me to consider my answer carefully as I admitted to letting him ride it I would get done for aiding and abetting my mate in riding a bike without a helmet, insurance and no licence, he had a car licence but it was a 400/4 so above the learner cc of 250 at the time. But, if I said I hadn't given him permission I would not get charged but my mate would get all the above plus theft of said motorcycle!! Well I got 3 points and I think, a 30 quid fine, it was in the '70's, and my mate still got a ban, points and a hefty fine. I thought the access road was private but as said, if the public have access it's a different kind of private

 

I'm pretty sure I remember a colleague getting done for drunk in charge. He was staying at a hotel, had a bit of a skinful, but before he went to bed, popped/staggered out to get something from the boot of his car. Unfortunately for him, a passing police officer saw him looking unsteady and struggling to get the key into the boot lock. Hook, line and sinkered...

 

ACAB

 

I had a mate, who whilst drunk, thought it would be funny to push a parked motorcycle to the other side of the road and re-park it on double yellow lines.

He got done for taking a vehicle without the owners consent, drunk driving, riding without a helmet and riding without insurance. That will teach him.

 

Same here mate.

 

Oi! Hang on a minute, I don’t get paid anything at all. I don’t get benefits or anything paid for by anyone’s income tax. I’m just living off my savings at the minute and pay for my own beer and motorcycles, yer cheeky tw@t!