Motorist banned after driving 10 mph on motorway

[Woodmonkey]

Motorist banned after driving 10 mph on motorway


A woman banned from driving for seven days after traveling at speeds of less than 10mph on the motorway told Reuters on Friday: "that road's my nemesis." Stephanie Cole, 58, of Fishponds, Bristol, straddled the hard shoulder and inside lane as she dawdled along a stretch of the M32 near her home last August.

In the back window of the car was a sign which said: "I don't do fast, please overtake."

Cole admitted driving without reasonable consideration at North Avon Magistrates' Court on Friday and was told she would have to take another test at the end of the ban.

"I didn't intend getting onto the motorway, but all of a sudden I found myself on it and I could not get off," she told Reuters after the hearing.

"I just panicked. I hate that particular stretch of road and I avoid it normally. It is my nemesis."

Cole had been traveling from her home to a stationer's when she was arrested in her Perodua Kenari mini people-carrier.

"I thought "thank God" when I saw the blue flashing lights," she said. "I thought they could help and I asked them if they could drive me home."

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[jjvman]

I think I saw her whiz past my wife one time.[heh heh] Sometimes wghen we are in a hurry and my wife drives, I don't think she could possibly go slower. But we always get there somehow.

[conlor]

My sisters used to kid me about driving slow, but I've never had any kind of a ticket. I don't do 10 on the highway though.

[Snowden]

My youngest son's friends called me "Hot Rod Mamma."

I don't think driving slow was my problem.

There's a man in a white truck down here -- goes down the road at the end of ours at -- oh, about 5mph. I wish the police would pick him up!

[jjvman]

"There are a lot of "Sunday drivers", most often they only come out when you are in a hurry and they are often in front of you." Murphy's 37th law.