Guy gets fined £150 for driving through a puddle

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A motorist was fined £150 and given three penalty points - for driving through a puddle and soaking a workman.
Jason Evans, 34, from Yeovil, splashed the man's jeans as he drove through 2ins-deep flood water near Charlton Mackrell in Somerset.
A policeman driving behind Mr Evans snapped a photo of the incident before pulling him over.
Mr Evans pleaded guilty to driving without due consideration for road users at Yeovil Magistrates' Court.

He told The Sun: "I wanted to apologise, but I did not want to stop the traffic."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/4392092.stm

Yeh, it's annoying when you get splashed by people driving by, but is it £150 worth of fine?

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Monday, 31 October 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Prison's too good for 'em

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 31 October 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Was he wearing a hoodie?

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Monday, 31 October 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Hanging's too good for 'em!

― We might force K8 to change her name to Marie. (kate), Monday, 31 October 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Mr Evans pleaded guilty to driving without due consideration for road users at Yeovil Magistrates' Court

too many aspects of this story leave me boggling. what was he meant to do: veer on to the other side of the carriageway just to avoid splashing some bloke?

i once got covered head-to-toe by water splashed up from a big truck. it was miserable and depressing, but the only person who could have taken evasive action was *me*, by not walking along the pavement by a big section of flooded road. what's the driver meant to do: swerve about everywhere?

christ's teeth.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 31 October 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

i've resorted to laughing manically whenever i get splashed by cars these days.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 31 October 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

ha ha ha, serves him right for owning a car.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 31 October 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

too many aspects of this story leave me boggling. what was he meant to do: veer on to the other side of the carriageway just to avoid splashing some bloke?

He was supposed to slow down to a speed that minimised splashing.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 31 October 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

15mph is quite slow.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Monday, 31 October 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

Ah, apparently he did.

Edmund King, executive director of the RAC Foundation, said: "I think we've all seen and we all know motorists who do this kind of thing on purpose and I think if someone does do it on purpose they should be prosecuted.
"But in this case he had slowed down and was only doing 15mph. He hadn't realised how deep the puddle was. It was unintentional."

So, bollocks fine then - but if someone's going fast enough to soak you head to toe (like grimly upthread) then he's going too fast.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 31 October 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

I've been splashed from head to toe as well, by a bus. Unfortunately, although I saw it coming, there was nowhere for me to run and I had to press my back up against the wall of a building and hope the splash wouldn't reach me. Ha ha fat chance.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 31 October 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

You ever notice you only get splashed by a car when you're in a miserable mood already?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 31 October 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

You ever notice you only get splashed by a car when it's raining?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 31 October 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

The only correct option here is thermonuclear war.

― Dan (Excruciating Back Pain) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 31 October 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Put him in the stocks and let us throw rotten tomatoes and MUD at him and see how he likes it!

― We might force K8 to change her name to Marie. (kate), Monday, 31 October 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

I completely agree with you if you mean Multi-User Dungeons.

― Dan (Excruciating Back Pain) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 31 October 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

many undead dinosaurs

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 31 October 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

mangled urban ditzes

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Monday, 31 October 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

my undead dad

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Monday, 31 October 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

My Two Undead Dads

"you can't count on them..."

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 31 October 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

Put him in the stocks and let us throw rotten tomatoes and MUD at him and see how he likes it!

Make Ugly Denouncements

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Monday, 31 October 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

i know that it is the wrong option, and unjustifiable, but as a pedestrian nazi still feel happy inside that this has turned out this way

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 31 October 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

i like how the police anticipated this guy going through the puddle and had a camera ready to take a photo

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 31 October 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

'you've been framed' pay more than £150...

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 31 October 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

i wonder if any of the fine goes to the pedestrian as compensation.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 31 October 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

or perhaps goes to drainage repairs.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 31 October 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

i wonder how much were the court fees.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 31 October 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

but if someone's going fast enough to soak you head to toe (like grimly upthread) then he's going too fast

the lorry that got me was driving down argyle street in glasgow and slowing for the lights: i doubt he was doing more than 20mph. the driver was up in his cab, many feet off the ground: the last thing he'd be able to do is judge the relative depth of puddles! despite the fact i was the one looking like a drowned rat, i can't blame him at all.

now, my sister-in-law, who deliberately veered into a puddle in order to soak an entire family one day: that's a different matter.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 31 October 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Did the workman complain?

Arsehole.

― Rumpie, Monday, 31 October 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

now, my sister-in-law, who deliberately veered into a puddle in order to soak an entire family one day: that's a different matter.

haha did she get them?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 31 October 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

I for one am all in favour. Glad to hear the driver got taken to the cleaners.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 31 October 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

but surely it's the pedestrian who should be taken to the cleaners

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 31 October 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

its puddletical correctness gone mad

― _, Monday, 31 October 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

haha did she get them?

yes. awesomely, from what i hear. she was then chastised by her five-year-old son :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 31 October 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

actually i don't see wet is wrong with this

― gear (gear), Monday, 31 October 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

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