Friday, March 21, 2008

Brussels is going to fine you for speeding in all countries now.

I've always thrown away my speeding tickets in other countries, because they've never followed up on them, but now Brussels is going to fix that for us, under the guise of safety with this little piece of utter bullshit.
The executive body of the European Union has launched a proposal for a law that aims to improve road safety, it said, by enabling cross-border prosecution of traffic offenses. "Road safety is everyone's business and a priority for the Commission," said Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot in a statement.

As things stand today, a driver committing an offence under the highway code in a car registered in another country of the European Union evades prosecution, with very few exceptions, because of the difficulty of identifying them or of being able to check the address to which the vehicle is registered.
The proposed Directive will cover four types of road traffic offence: speeding, drink-driving, not wearing a seat belt and failing to stop at a red light. These four offences are the leading causes of accidents and road deaths: they are involved in almost 75% of all road deaths, according to the commission.

I'm sure it's just a huge coincidence that those offenses are huge revenue generators for said countries.

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