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Speed camera Chief Executive nicked at 100mph

Tom Riall, head of Serco, slapped with £300 fine, six-month ban and six points on his licence after admitting breaking the ton

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Posted: 6 May 2009
by Visordown News

THE CHIEF Executive of a company that makes speed cameras has been caught speeding at over 100mph.

BBC News reports that Tom Riall, Chief Executive of Serco, admitted driving at more than 100mph on a 70mph road in Suffolk. Riall's company has provided more than 5,000 speed cameras to the UK.

Riall pleaded guilty at Sudbury Magistrates' Court to driving at more than 100mph along a 70mph limit dual carriageway. He was caught speeding in Newmarket, on 4 January 2009.

UPDATE: Riall was fined £300, banned from driving for six months and had six points added to his licence.

Riall, from Ufton Nervet, near Reading, was caught speeding in his blue Volvo by a police patrol car on the eastbound dual carriageway just before 1300 BST, the court heard.

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User 74323
I wonder what fine and points he got?

Posted: 06/05/2009 at 11:20


ink ink
Rather a tenuous link between him and the cameras.  Serco make a hell of a lot of other stuff.

Posted: 06/05/2009 at 11:25


FJSRiDER.

User 74323 wrote (see)
I wonder what fine and points he got?

I'd say a £300 fine, banned for six months and have six points added to his licence.

Posted: 06/05/2009 at 11:25


ink ink

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/8035511.stm

FJSRiDER. wrote (see)

User 74323 wrote (see)
I wonder what fine and points he got?

I'd say a £300 fine, banned for six months and have six points added to his licence.
That's uncanny! You're better informed than VD News itself!

Posted: 06/05/2009 at 11:28


FJSRiDER.
ink ink wrote (see)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/8035511.stm

That's uncanny! You're better informed than VD News itself!

You know how to use Google as well!

(I think we're rather over-qualified for posting on here) 


Posted: 06/05/2009 at 11:34


ink ink
FJSRiDER. wrote (see)
ink ink wrote (see)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/8035511.stm

That's uncanny! You're better informed than VD News itself!

You know how to use Google as well!

(I think we're rather over-qualified for posting on here) 


I searched the BBC website. 

He should have built something into the cameras that let him and his mates off with speeding.  Or plead that the cameras are inaccurate and he would know!


Posted: 06/05/2009 at 11:37


FJSRiDER.
ink ink wrote (see)

He should have built something into the cameras that let him and his mates off with speeding.  Or plead that the cameras are inaccurate and he would know!


I should imagine that there will be a bit of sniggering back at the office...

Posted: 06/05/2009 at 11:44


gedge
ink ink wrote (see)


I searched the BBC website. 

He should have built something into the cameras that let him and his mates off with speeding.  Or plead that the cameras are inaccurate and he would know!

According to the link he was caught by a patrol car and not by a camera so quite what the relevance of his position is is beyond me..?

They produce a commercial product which they sell/supply at a profit..doesn't mean he has to believe in what they are used for..and at least he didn't get on the internet whining about it being unfair


Posted: 06/05/2009 at 14:23


ink ink

Yes, Gedge, it's a contrived story. 

 We need items about inventors of camera detectors and camera-proof number plates getting Gatso-ed, or Signor Brembo himself being charged with "failing to stop."


Posted: 06/05/2009 at 14:54


User 74323
All stories are contrived, otherwise there would be no story

Posted: 06/05/2009 at 16:07

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