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Originally Posted by captain awesome
really i call bs. i cant stop my mate speeding whilst sitting in the passenger seat
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It's your duty to make him stop the car. Honestly.
And the law hasn't "changed"...they're just dredging up a century old law called "aiding and abetting" that they haven't really bothered much with for a while, but which they must have decided could be profitably put to good use in cases like this...it's always been around, and is still a valid law that you can be charged under. It isn't "new".
By the traffic head honcho on the TV tonight, expect to see a lot more of it. Just one of those laws that's still on the books and has always been there for thier discretionary use. As they said, they asked one magistrate about it and he wasn't aware of it, yet two of his cases that day involved someone in that very situation...being in a car driven by someone over the limit.
It's all in the interests of road safety, don'tcha know...
