Driver filmed at 101mph with kid out of window.A CHILD hangs his head out of a car window as it speeds along a busy road at 101mph. The potentially life-threatening prank was captured by a mobile speed camera A mobile speed camera is a term used in the United Kingdom to refer to a road vehicle fitted with speed camera equipment which can park at the side of the road, or on overbridges to monitor the speed of passing traffic. . And the car's driver, Colin Goodall, was banned from the road for his folly folly In architecture, an eccentric, generally nonfunctional (and often deliberately unfinished) structure erected to enhance a romantic landscape. Follies were particularly in vogue in England in the 18th and early 19th century. . Two children were hanging out of Goodall's powerful Audi as it sped along the A189 in Northumberland at a blackspot. Goodall, 37, of Ashington, was clocked by the camera, which showed a boy sticking his head out of the back window. Another youngster in a red T-shirt was seen hanging out of the front window. Neither child was wearing a seat belt. Goodall was banned by Bedlington magistrates for 28 days, ordered to pay a pounds 200 fine and pounds 45 costs for breaking the 70mph limit. Jeremy Forsberg, of the Northumbria Safer Roads Initiative, said: "It is just incredibly dangerous. "We know that hitting a windscreen at 30mph is the equivalent of hitting the ground head-first from a three-storey building. "But this was more than three times that speed." Mr Forsberg added that Goodall had failed in his duty of care to the children. CAPTION(S): BANNED: Goodall; MADNESS Madness Alcithoe driven mad by Dionysus. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 16] Alcmeon driven mad by the Furies. [Gk. Myth. : Child hangs out window at 101mph |
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