Wrong-Way Driver Filmed by Friends Banned From Roads for Three Years
- Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:28pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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A 25-year-old U.K. man filmed driving the wrong way down a busy road while his friends cheered him on has been banned from driving for three years.
Steven McInulty was also given an eight-month suspended sentence and ordered to pay a fine for the June incident, Sky News reported. He admitted to driving dangerously, driving on a suspended license and driving without insurance.
Footage posted on YouTube shows McInulty trying to evade police by speeding up and down the road, at times even driving in reverse while other cars struggled to avoid him, all as his friends egg him on from the side of the road.
“When the police officer went after you, you then drove appallingly,” the judge told McInulty during his court appearance. “You caused all sorts of vehicles to have to take evasive action as you drove the wrong way and you then drove past your pals, who all thought it was tremendously funny and who had the stupidity to film you.
“What you did, it is lucky nobody was killed or seriously injured,” the judge said, adding that it was “more by luck than judgment” there were not more serious repercussions.
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Azzman
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 1:48pmThey suspend drivers licenses’ here in the states all the time and people still drive.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 12:26pmWHAT DO THEY MEAN HE AVOIDED CAPTURE?
Report Post »But was later Captured.
Inquiring minds want to know just what are the outer limits of Incompetence for the English Police.
ConservativeChristianB1954
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 8:17amOnly 3 years??? It should be permanent!
Report Post »Azzman
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 1:46pmHA! I bet he is driving again right now…
Report Post »grannyrecipe
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 7:59amI’m sure, they banned him from driving for 3 years…didn’t he have a suspended license and was banned from driving in the first place?
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 12:29pmYES!
Report Post »There lies the blind spot for many Government types when confronted with a problem they think their passing a law or ruling just solves it.
COFemale
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 11:41pmMale drivers complain about women drivers. This clearly proves men cause all accidents.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 5:06amWow…. that’s a bit of a stretch. This one incident from a stupid kid proves that ALL men cause ALL accidents?
Umm kay.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 10:30ammost insurance companies would disagree
Report Post »Full Throttle
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 4:45pmAs a long-time, heavy commuter I have seen my share of bad drivers over the years. I have to say that it’s about equal. However, to be specific, men mostly do dangerous things and females usually own the stupid moves. Just my opinion…
Report Post »BURNINGRINGOFFIRE
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 6:49pmThis isn’t the first time COFEMALE has posted negatively about male drivers.
She obviously has deep seated issues from her childhood and now blames males for everything.
Report Post »Independent American
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 11:31pmI don’t care much for freeway driving during rush hour, but I had to do so recently.
Shortly after I got on the freeway, my wife called me on my cell phone to warn me that the news reported that some idiot was driving the wrong way on the freeway. I told her the news was wrong, there were hundreds of ‘em!
Report Post »OklahomaBound
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 8:02pmHis friends should have been charged as accomplices, they knew what he was about to do and did nothing to stop him or alert authorities, instead they participated by recording what should have been charged as wreckless endangerment at the very least.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 8:11pmHolder and Obumbler programmed his GPS
OMG
Report Post »aquablue
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 6:30pmexactly! they should have had some inkling of concern for others in danger.
Report Post »confederacyofdunces
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 7:47pmI would lock him up for at least three years and give him permanent revocation of driving privileges. What a moron. too bad they cant tattoo “ reckless driver nearly killed dozens for fun” on his face and castrate him. The world does not need his genes in the pool.
Report Post »Now I’ll tell you how I really feel.
ICOSAHEDRON
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 7:28pmGuilty: Sentence: 30 days in the electric chair…
Report Post »mcgrawactor1
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 7:17pmThis sentence was appalling. The judge treated this case like this kid was guilty of mischief, not mayhem. If he had killed someone, would he have gotten a murder conviction or manslaughter? You make the call. I know what the judge would have ruled!
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 5:09amWhat could have happened and what did happen are 2 very different things.
Report Post »Yes, he was driving recklessly, but nobody got hurt. That HAS to be taken into account. If someone had gotten hurt, he probably would have been much worse off, but again—nobody got hurt.
DD313
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 5:45pmMaybe he was planning a trip to America and just wanted to get a feel for driving on the right.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 6:52pmI don’t know. Many here drive on the left…if you know what I’m saying.
Report Post »Marengo Ohio Patriot
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 5:32pmwell, if all those selfish people who were using HIS road would have just stayed off of it, there never would have been a problem, would there!
Report Post »robert
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 4:31pmWhat he did was more dangerous….by far….than waving a loaded gun around in public. If he had done that, he would probably have gotten something like twoyears incarceration.
By his reckless driving behavior the chances of him killing numerous innocent people was greater by a factor of at least one hundred, but for reason these judges everywhere give these road renegades a slap on the wrist.
And it continues on as if it were a game.
I’m wondering if jailing one of these lame-brained judges who has his priorities skewed would solve the problem of sentencing defendants according to their lethalness and not because he thinks vehicles are o.k., but guns are yuckie?
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 5:19pmI would ban him from driving for life, what an idiot.
Report Post »candcantiques
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 4:08pm…but your honor, the sign said one way and I was only driving one way
Report Post »SageInWaiting
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 4:03pmHoney! Forget that trip to England. Let’s dig a bunker instead….
Report Post »colt6920
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 3:34pm3 years????? Thats it???
Report Post »trinklefinder
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 3:26pmShould be revoked for 10 years, 2000 hours of community service, and an intensive drivers risk education program.
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:57pmWelcome to the United Kingdom of Stupidity.
Report Post »TheBurningTruth
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:55pmWanton disregard to the lives and property of others and three years suspended is all he gets? This wasn’t a “mistake” or “error” it was willful disregard for everyone one on that road that day. This is why Progressive Liberal societies die off. They let the worst get away with anything. But try balancing the budget or being fiscally responsible and you’re branded some kind of demon!
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:46pmGood Think he was not smoking a Cigarette as well.The Brits would have brought back the Death Penalty.
Report Post »omgfolks
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:45pmWow now that was creative prosecution.
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:41pm3 years?…that’s all. Pansy Brits.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:38pmOnly three years?
and his ‘friends’ thought this was funny?
Oh well here he would probably just get points on his license………..
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