If the pay wasn't so bad, this might be a fun job.
On second thought, maybe 159 mph is speeding
Prosecutor wants to retry cop acquitted of speeding, dangerous driving
Reuters
Updated: 6:31 p.m. ET Feb. 3, 2006
LONDON - A British traffic officer caught driving at 159 mph but cleared by a
court of speeding and dangerous driving faces a legal move at the High Court
in London Wednesday to convict him.
The attorney general will appeal against the acquittal of constable Mark
Milton and seek a High Court order that the advanced police driver should be
convicted over his high speed blast in the early hours of Dec. 5, 2003.
Milton, a qualified advanced driver, was recorded by an onboard camera in his
upgraded unmarked Vauxhall Vectra police car traveling at 91 mph in a 30 mph
zone and hitting 159 mph on the M54 motorway. The legal limit in Britain is 70
mph.
Milton's defense, accepted by the local judge in May 2005, was that he had
taken the car on a test run around Telford, Shropshire, where he was based.
The judge said the prosecution had failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt
that he had driven dangerously and that the car was being "used for police
purposes" when the incident occurred.
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