Re: Caught Speeding Delivering Transplant Organs

What accident?

I'll bet you change your tune when it's you waiting on a new liver.

Oh come down from the high horse for a minute...

The facts: ambulance drivers can exceed the speed limit. The issue here is that the prosecuting authority (the CPS I think) has deemed this vehicle as a non-ambulance because it's a car. However, if memory serves, it was fully liveried as an emergency vehicle. Also, the organs were on their way to an impending operation - time being of the essence.

As clearly described at the time, the driver exceeded the limit on roads capable of taking it, and in traffic situations that were sensible - not in the town, or through villages etc.

Bottom line: if this were a fully-fledged ambulance transporting the organs, the CPS hasn't got a case in law. They're using a loophole to pursue this. Some jobsworth bureaucrat has decided to make a lesson of this man for God knows what reason.

...and I'm sure he did.

Let's make a lesson of the countless joyriders out there, instead of someone pursuing a mercy mission. Where does this end? Telling the Fire Service to stick to 30mph on a shout? They don't, they shouldn't and they're absolutely right in exceeding the limit - the very experienced driver being the one who decides. Not some pen-pushing prick after-the-fact.

-- Ken Davidson

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Yeah, but you know he's right .