Vehicle Speeding In The News

From tabloids and broadsheets to motoring magazines and television news, we have been inundated with news stories of people caught speeding, mostly unfairly or by a small margin, while at the same time we read of police offices generally escaping similar transgressions. There is also an increasing roll-call of celebrities and other notables avoiding points on their license, since they have the financial resources to hire the likes of Nick Freeman - aka Mr Loophole - to defend them in court.

Big Brother is watching you...

At the same time it would appear that such a 'profitable industry' means that developments in new technology are regularly getting splashed across the front page, with Big Brother style headlines, as the latest cameras to catch various infringements of the highway code are given government approval to record our every waking second behind the wheel. Whatever your standpoint, the following news stories are always controversial.