SMOKER'S COUGH

SMOKER’S COUGH

Drivers who have been fined or lost their licences for comparatively trivial offences will be enthralled to learn that, according to the Daily Mail, when a 40-year-old building contractor was charged with dangerous driving in Stockport alter his car had mounted a footpath on the wrong side of the road, injuring a pedestrian, bent a No-Waiting sign, wrecked a shop window, smashed the front of another shop, hit yet another shop, throwing slabs of masonry 54 feet and finally embedded itself in a pub wall, the summons was dismissed by the Chairman of the Court. The reason ? The driver had had a transient black-out due to a smoker’s cough. In Court it was admitted that he had drunk three bottles of stout on the evening of the accident.