Eight policemen in three police cars have made an arrest of a man driving after consuming three times the legal drink driving limit. The man was pulled over as he made his way home from a local pub, on his mobility scooter.

The pensioner, travelling at around 4mph on a pavement close to his Chesterfield home was surrounded by the policemen when he failed to stop. One policeman thought it necessary to mount the pavement with his vehicle to prevent the pensioner from continuing his journey whilst another took his keys.

Eamonn Donohoe, 62 of Chesterfield was travelling at around 4mph on a pavement near his home when police surrounded him, preventing him from completing his journey home. Mr Donohoe, who is disabled due to blocked arteries in his lower legs, was pulled over after spending a pleasant evening at his local pub playing dominoes with friends. He had consumed around six or seven pints before leaving for home.

He was kept in police cells for 12 hours, fingerprinted and had his DNA taken. Mr Donohoe commented “Anybody would think that I was a bank robber or a member of Al-Qaeda, I can’t believe how they treated me”.

He continued; “They must have known, like I did, that the rules of the road don’t apply when you’re riding a mobility scooter down the pavement at three and a half miles an hour, but it didn’t seem to matter one jot.”I didn’t stop at first because I wanted to get home, and I wasn’t doing anything wrong.”

Mr Donohoe was found to be three times over the legal UK drink driving limit after he failed a roadside breath test. He has been banned from driving; however he has not been banned from driving his mobility scooter as it is not actually classed as car.

There are several unusual cases of drink driving, including a milk man charge with driving his float whilst under the influence and a Welsh rugby player driving a golf buggy down a busy motorway.

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A disqualification from driving can range from one year to ten years depending on the severity of the offence. There are also cases where a judge will rule that the offender should serve a lifetime disqualification to avoid putting the lives of others at risk.

There is also something called a Short Period Disqualification (SPD ) which means you are banned from driving for less than 56 days, during which time the court will have custody of your driving license, but it will not be surrendered. This penalty is usually given for less severe offences, and you can start driving once it has expired, without taking your test again

When a full license disqualification has been given and completed, you are able to apply for a license again, using forms available at the post office and online. If you do this you will be issued with a provisional licence and then need take the theory, hazard and practical tests in order to regain a full licence.

The endorsements of a disqualification will remain on a licence unless otherwise instructed by a magistrate for which you will need to appear and present your case for removal.

In some cases of extended bans, you may not be banned for the whole period, as the court sometimes allow a driver to serve half their disqualification if they have taken steps to ensure that after the disqualification period they can be a safer driver, such as a drink driving rehabilitation course. A ban may also be reduced if the court take into account the motorists personal circumstances and deem that the impact of the ban would be detrimental to the motorists family life or job.

For bans longer than 2 years you can apply after half the proposed disqualification period, for example for a ban of 6 years you can apply after 3. If you made other offences, driving or otherwise, since your disqualification the court will immediately dismiss your application. If you are caught driving whilst banned you will face a custodial sentence and a hefty fine.

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From the minds of a Silicon Valley software engineer, Mark Eberhard and PayPal billionaire Elon Musk comes Tesla, a company committed to creating a commercially viable, fully electric car for the masses.

The company was founded with the aim of developing a car that ran on sustainable energy and was practical enough to use every day. As with all technology, the difficulty was putting it in a car everybody could afford. Eberhand made a bold move and decided that their first venture would have to start out like the high tech gadgets he had worked with, hyped-up, over priced and rare, becoming cheaper with time and volume, allowing the first line of consumers would subsidise the development of the company.

Tesla left the designing of the car up to the experts at British racing legends, Lotus. They designed and built that body of the car based on the popular Elise model. The cars were shipped from Norfolk to California where the engines were fitted and brought the grand total of the car to around 80,000. It’s not the most expensive supercar in the world but considering the investment in the future of the motor industry, some are considering a steal.

To ensure its success, Musk used his links with Google and Hollywood to gain credibility with public figures such as George Clooney and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Before production of the Roadster even began, there was a’ who’s-who’ of the rich and famous on the waiting list as jumping on the eco-wagon becomes increasingly fashionable.

When officially tested, the Roadster was found to be capable of achieving 0-60 in 3.7 seconds with a limited top speed of 125mph. This meant the first electric supercar could out-perform a Ferrari while keeping you pinned in your seat from the instance you touch the pedal, all in absolute silence.

Tesla also plan on selling the intellectual property for their engines to some of the European car giants which could create a huge supple of affordable electric cars, meaning even if your next car isn’t electric, the one after probably will be.

Even though the Tesla is limited to 125mph, you will still need a driving offence solicitor for any speeding offence you may commit.

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Gasoline prices seem to be one of the most looked after index in recent months. People seem to be wary of the rising gas prices and have become more concerned on how this will affect the other aspects of every day life. Of course, with such an essential necessity as gasoline, there would be many things that would in fact be affected in the worse sense.

As the sudden rise in gasoline prices have made people become more concerned, it would also be very important to know about the different factors that give rise to such increases in the first place. There are four main elements that affect the pricing of gasoline in the retail market, primary of which is the price of crude oil in the world market.

Electric cars get electricity for power by means of electric battery packs built on board. One of the advantages of using electric vehicles or EV’s is that they are environmentally friendly. Unlike fossil fuel that emits a number of pollutants into the air when being used, the use of electricity for power does not do so, except that the power plants that may produce them do. But with using electric cars, the emission of harmful pollutants may be reduced substantially. Less cars using fossils fuel and gasoline would help make this possible. And someday, when more electric power is sourced from nuclear, solar, wind and hydro-electric power plants, pollutant emissions will even be reduced more.

Refining costs also can affect gasoline pricing. Different countries as well as areas have certain regulations when it comes to the gasoline products that they acquire fro the retailers. Some places require less polluting gasoline than others. Some have higher standards than others. This usually means that the refining process for gasoline may be different from those following less stringent standards. Although this may prove to be helpful in some sense, added refining requirements can also be considered as additional costs for gasoline. The costs are eventually passed on to the consumers in the guise of higher gasoline prices.

Aside from distance from supply, retail prices of gasoline may also be affected by environmental programs and local regulations being followed in a certain area. There are certain areas, countries or states that require gasoline to be specially formulated to meet up with certain local standards. This is usually done in order to protect the environment. Certain regulations require that refined gasoline be further reformulated in order to help reduce pollutants to be released into the air. This might require adding up certain chemicals in order to help reduce carbon monoxide emissions as well as other pollutants when gasoline is being burned. In order to meet up with certain regulations of certain states and countries, such processes must be additionally performed and therefore may add up into the retail cost of the reformulated gasoline. Another big factor of retail gasoline prices being different from one area to another is because of competition. Whenever there are quite a number of retail gas stations to choose from in a certain area, the likelihood of gasoline prices being cheaper there is high. The primary reason is, of course competition. With many retail gas stations trying to share the local market with other retail stations, getting customers attracted is important. The most effective way to do this is by trying to offer cheaper gas prices than the competitor.

With the appearance of the more powerful and affordable diesel and gasoline powered cars starting in the early 1900′s, the market for electric cars slowly disappeared. Although there were still electric cars being made, those that do exist were being produced for specialized applications. One of the most common use for the electric vehicle today may be found in the golf carts as a primary mode of compact transport in golf courses. But because of the rising gasoline prices as well as the worsening pollution, there has been an renewed demand for the less polluting alternative electric vehicles in recent years. And will this rising casoline prices effect cars quotes in the future?

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