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Police pick on cyclist
David Hansen wrote:
I see that the police have picked on another cyclist in Edinburgh http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Cyclist-fined-after-three-hours.4747444.jp. If the report is true then the cyclist had working lights on his bike, though they may have been dim. Thus he was not committing an offence and the police had no grounds to ask him for his name and address. Thus the arrest was illegal, just like the fixed penalty notice. Just because a cyclist has a set of working lights on his bike, does not mean that the lights are legal as primary lights. A cyclist could be lit up like a christmas tree, and yet still get prosecuted for having no lights if none of the lights are primary lights. "Mr Cimini shone his front light in one officer's face to prove it was working and it was at this point that it emerged the light had begun to fade because it was low on battery power." If the light was dim when he turned it back on to shine it in the cops face, then it was probably even dimmer just before he turned it off. I do think that as Mr Cimini was making had some lights on his bike, he should have just been given a ticking off, but then shinning it in the cops face would not help his cause. Martin. |
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