A friend has been summoned to appear in court next week for dangerous driving. The incident occured some time back, when after overtaking another vehicle at the end of a dual carriageway (where the two lanes merge into one), the driver he overtook called the Gardai. While stuck in traffic in Gorey, a Garda car approached him and questioned him about the incident. He explained what had happened and assumed that was the end of it.
He is now being prosecuted for dangerous driving on the evidence of the driver he overtook. No other witnesses apart from the two passengers he had in his own car.
How can he be proecuted on the evidence of another driver alone ? What qualifies this other driver to determine whether in fact his driving was dangerous. If it is as easy as this I could spend all day long reporting guys who cut me up and get them all prosecuted. Its one persons word versus another, unless of course there are witnesses involved.
He genuinely feels he wasn't driving in any way dangerously, but in fact the car on his inside sped up and then wouldn't yield to let him in at the end of the double lane, leaving hime with the option of hitting his breaks hard and maybe causing an accident, or completing his manoeuvre and overtaking.
Should he bother contesting this with a barrister or is he likely to be done on the say so of this other driver ?
He is now being prosecuted for dangerous driving on the evidence of the driver he overtook. No other witnesses apart from the two passengers he had in his own car.
How can he be proecuted on the evidence of another driver alone ? What qualifies this other driver to determine whether in fact his driving was dangerous. If it is as easy as this I could spend all day long reporting guys who cut me up and get them all prosecuted. Its one persons word versus another, unless of course there are witnesses involved.
He genuinely feels he wasn't driving in any way dangerously, but in fact the car on his inside sped up and then wouldn't yield to let him in at the end of the double lane, leaving hime with the option of hitting his breaks hard and maybe causing an accident, or completing his manoeuvre and overtaking.
Should he bother contesting this with a barrister or is he likely to be done on the say so of this other driver ?