"good" parenting, 101 mph, with kids hanging out the window

Speeding driver caught doing 100mph - with children dangling out of the window
Last updated at 00:16am on 11th March 2008

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A speeding driver caught doing more than 100mph while children without seatbelts dangled out of the car window has been banned from driving for just 28 days.


Colin Goodall was caught on a speed camera at 101mph, but police were horrified when they studied the images and spotted children sticking their heads out of the window as the Audi hurtled down the road.


Officers were certain the youngsters were not wearing seatbelts as they clambered around in the back of the car to reach out of the speeding vehicle.


Caught on camera: Colin Goodall was snapped speeding at 101mph with two children hanging out of the window of his car


Goodall was branded a "disgrace" by safety campaigners, as the 37-year-old was banned from the roads for just one month and fined £200.

Jeremy Forsberg, of the Northumbria Safer Roads Initiative, said: "This is clearly absolutely disgusting behaviour.

"He is meant to be responsible for the children in the car, other road users and to himself not to drive in this manner.


'Disgrace': Goodall was banned from the roads for just one month and fined £200

"Breaking a speed limit by more than 30mph is bad enough, but to have young people not secured properly and dangling out of the window is shocking."

Goodall, of Ashington, Northumberland, was speeding in his car on the A189 Spine Road, at Cramlington, Northumberland in October.

Because he was caught doing 101mph - more than 30mph over the speed limit - his case was automatically referred to court.

He appeared before Bedlington Magistrates, where he admitted the speeding charge and was given the short ban.

He was also fined £200 and ordered to pay £45 in costs and a victim surcharge.

But it is Goodall's disregard for the safety of his child passengers that has angered safety campaigners.

Mr Forsberg added: "We know that hitting a windscreen at 30mph is the equivalent of falling off a three-storey building.

"So, while travelling at 101mph, any sudden braking by the driver while children's heads are hanging out of the window like that would have severely tragic consequences.

"For those children not to be properly restrained in the first place is dangerous, particularly while going at such a speed.

"But to allow them to be behaving in the way they did shows a complete disrespect for the roads. He put his own life in danger, those of the children and other roads motorists.

"That should attract a harsh penalty and the driver was quite rightly banned by magistrates."

Lorna Jackson, of pressure group Brake, said: "Speeding with children hanging out the window is highly dangerous and irresponsible and to then only receive a one-month ban really sends out the wrong message.

"This driver has endangered his own and other people's lives and I am sure seeing those children would have been a distraction to other motorists as well.

"This is wrong on so many levels and our stance is that if speeding or driving behaviour is that bad, it should attract a charge of at the very least careless driving

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Lord, what fools these mortals be!
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene ii

Voltaire said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

H.L.Mencken wrote:"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein

And don't forget! Mr. Goodall is the mayun he is today because he had kyds! Clearly, a stellar citizen!

You're nothing unless you breed, then you can do whatever the hell you want because everyone will excuse you because you've given so much of yourself and your time to do TMIJITW!!!!!!!

HORK!

Some years back, in ohio on I 75 near Piqua some welfare moo with her twin spawn, was playing stupid four-wheeler games with a Schneider. (truck). Technically, I don't think people realize they are doing this, but she was initially only doing 40. Despite being a Schneider, he pulled out to pass.
He checked his sideview mirror and sees nothing, pulls back into lane after (what is in our experience-you know how long it takes to pass a car) and hits welfare moo who has sped up and is running in the trucks blind spot.
Typical welfare moo, paid to be a moo, hasn't strapped the loafs in. Both loafs go through windshield to their deaths. She also, poor little moo, has no insurance on the car. Case was tossed out of court because she had no insurance.

Two Cents, I'm very happy welfare moo's case was tossed out of court. It would have been cool if the judge tossed the breeder bitch under the wheels of a speeding truck!

Keep working more hours, CF people! Millions of breeders depend on us.

nah catmeow, you couldnt do that..


it might damage the truck. bouncing over her empty head

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I just post the stories, for interest.. for everyone

Lord, what fools these mortals be!
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene ii

Voltaire said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

H.L.Mencken wrote:"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein

Sure I could, Merc!

I would see the damage as a badge of honor to what it did in reducing the welfare ho population by one.

Keep working more hours, CF people! Millions of breeders depend on us.

but wont somebody think of the wheels LOL

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I just post the stories, for interest.. for everyone

Lord, what fools these mortals be!
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene ii

Voltaire said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

H.L.Mencken wrote:"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein

Don't you know? He forgot the kids were in the car...

"It truly is the one commonality that every designation of humans you can think of has, there's at least one asshole."
--Me