Originally Posted by
Carlos-Titx
European law and legislation overrides ours.
It would come under construction and use legislation.
DVSA apply common sense to it though or every HGV driver would be banned by now for repeated speeding down hills etc.
But if something went wrong and someone died then it would be used.
wouldnt be speeding though would it as speeding is a specific offence.
Surely it would be overiding a limiter or some other BS which is currently non-endorsable and doesnt come under the construction and use part of the RTA in terms of endorsable offences as tacho offences arent covered by the "CU60" offence code.
And again as its a speed limit of 60 what could they charge you if they consider you doing 60 contributed to the accident over doing 56?? I doubt it could come under death by careless or dangerous as 60mph is under the speed limit.
Would take a conviction prescedant to say that 56mph was the speed limit and not 60mph.