Pregnancy - speeding ticket excuse?

[dantray01]

Hello,

After seven years of having a clean licence, my wife (7 months pregnant) has landed two speeding tickets in two days on different routes.

She has said that she was bursting for the toilet - obviously this is a very thin excuse but would there be any kind of lenience allowed for a pregnant woman?

If not based on this, does anyone know of any similar cases that have tried this and been successful?

Thanks in advance.
Dan.

[redcrx]

she'll be lucky.

[jno]

they'll probably say she should have gone before she went, especially doing it a second time.

The costs of raising a child start very early!

[ummmm]

I don't think it's illegal to pee yourself in your car. Whereas, it's illegal to break the speed limit.

[Old_Geezer]

Didn't work when I tried it, the policewoman insisted the bulge and problem was down to the beer I'd drunk. Suspicious so & so.

[joko]

a full, close to bursting, bladder is the same for everyone, regardless of the reason it got that way, im afraid... it is a reason...but no excuse

[EvianBaby]

She could have asked the policeman to borrow his hat to pee in. He would have been obliged.

But I think she's pushing it (no pun intended) if she reckons they won't just look at that excuse and laugh. In fact, speeding while being pregnant may even get frowned upon even more.

[andy-hughes]

Heading to the maternity ward in labour - probably, simply not allowing for additional bladder pressure, unlikely.

[EvianBaby]

If she was in labour she probably wouldn't get looked on favourably for driving at all Andy.

[andy-hughes]

Can't see why not - labour can take hours from initial contractions to delivery, plenty of time to drive to the maternity block - and i am sure plenty of mums have done it.

[EvianBaby]

Meh, what do I know. I'm a childless spinster.

It would be interesting to know if there is anything laid out in the highway code regarding driving while in labour though.

[andy-hughes]

Not sure about the law, but I'm betting any patrol car that pulls over a woman in labour is going to escort her to the hospital with the blues and twos to clear the way for her.

[EvianBaby]

I just can't imagine it going down very well myself. What if the woman has a strong contraction while she is driving? I'm not saying I'm right, I have no idea. I would have thought a police man pulling over a woman in labour would be more likely to call an amublance or drive her to the hospital themself.

Apologies Dantray for slightly hijacking your question.

[andy-hughes]

I think it depends. Some mothers have 'slow labour' which can last a few days, and others can go into labour and deliver very quickly. There is absolutely no hard and fast rule, so yes, depending how advanced the labour was, it could be anything from an escorted drive in, to delivery at the roadside!

[ubasses]

Depending on how much over the speed limit she was each time she may get offered a speeding awareness course for one of them which will increase the amount she has to pay out but will reduce the number of point on her licence to one offence

[factor-fiction]

Didn't Sir Alex Ferguson succeed with this defence (needing toilet not pregnancy)?

[factor-fiction]

The issue, including the "Alex Ferguson" defence, is covered here:
http://www.motorlawan...rately-needed-toilet/

[Lynnzer]

Alex Ferguson got away with one of these. Problem is it took Nick Freeman to take it to court and he doesn't come cheap.
I thik it's well worth a go fighting though so drop in at http://forums.pepipoo.com to get some help from the experts on there

[Lynnzer]

Alex Ferguson did this. He got off with speeding for the need to visit the toilet some years ago. He got Nick Freeman to take it to court.
For what it's worth it's always worth fighting these things.
Drop in at http://forums.pepipoo.com for help and get a good insight into what to do.