Posted on 10/09/2021 11:31:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
She was stopped in Exeter initially for 'bad driving'
A woman was stopped last night by police for "bad driving" before officers discovered she was in fact driving without a valid license.
The woman was pulled over by Devon and Cornwall Police last night when cops decided her driving wasn't up to standard.
Initially the driver chose to ignore the flashing blue lights of the emergency car and continued on her way.
When she finally did decide to stop outside Tesco, Exeter police discovered her license was no longer valid.
The woman had been driving with a license from a different country which only permitted her to drive in the UK for one year.
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However, three years later and she was still on the roads.
Devon and Cornwall Police reported the driver and seized her vehicle.
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In a Twitter post, Devon and Cornwall Police detailed the incident.
The social media post said: "Vehicle seen at Tesco #Exeter with bad driving.
"After the driver finally figuring out blue lights meant to stop, we ascertained she held a licence issued by a country only permitted to drive here for up to a year.
"Three years later.. driver reported and vehicle seized!"
Lots of people visit Britain and drive using their own licenses, the main challenge is to get used to the left hand drive concepts, all your reflexes are opposite what you need there, and the roundabouts are scary at first, until you get used to them. I found that if I was driving for long intervals in rural areas, I would tend to forget the left hand drive partly because a lot of secondary roads are very narrow and have no center line markings. Then suddenly you have to brush up against a hedge to avoid a head on collision. Never had any real problems in a total of about a hundred days of driving on visits there. Driving on the continent is a lot more similar to what we are used to, and the roads get bigger and wider too. Paris is not for the faint of heart however. They all drive with just parking lights on at night too which is weird (only in France though).
“bad driving” is rather broad...
I’m sure there are thousands more like her in UK.
I know someone who used to be a driving instructor; she was paid by the government to teach ‘refugees’ so that they could convert their international driving licence/one year permit into a UK Driving Licence. Too many simply ignored everything she tried to teach them and there was no way they would be able to pass the driving test at the end of the tuition. They either carry on driving without a valid licence or get somebody else to take the test for them.
Although it was guaranteed work/income for my aquaintence, not surprisingly she gave up on it.
How does one get a license from a wrong country?
Get a lawyer?
I was at a crash scene where a Australian was killed.
All we can figure was that he forgot what side to drive on and went around the curve on the wrong side.
What part of Afghanistan was the illegal from?
In Ireland, a police car with flashing lights came up behind me.
I promptly pulled over, stopped, to the left, and as they went by one of the cops gave me a “what are you playing at” look. A complete, “you’re doing it wrong” look.
No, I hadn’t been oblivious to them.
I still don’t get it.
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A few weeks ago I was behind a car at the light, when I noticed it had Puerto Rico license plates. And I live in Pennsy.
They wrote this piece with a lot of drama almost like they caught an ax murder.
Forwarded it to some cops I know. We will see what they say.
After all these years here I have come to the conclusion that posting frequency and excerpting skills are inversely proportional to each other.
“The woman was pulled over by Devon and Cornwall Police last night when cops decided her driving wasn’t up to standard.”
25 years ago, we spent 10 end of June days/nights in an isolated B&B in the Devon Country side.
I drove with basically no problem. My wife, who is an excellent driver would not drive. Even the small roundabouts terrified her as a passenger.
We, then spent a week in London. I dropped off our rental car at the airport, and the owner of a B&B in London picked us up and drove us to downtown London where his B&B was. By the time he got us to his B&B, my wife told me about a dozen times, “Thanks for not driving here!”
The driver, a gentleman originally from India, just laughed.
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