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Director of driving school BSM avoids car ban despite 17 points
Abu-Haris Shafi, the director of Britain's largest driving school, has avoided a car ban despite 'totting up' 17 points.
Shafi, joint managing director of the British School of Motoring (BSM), faced court action after his car was caught breaking a 50mph limit by speed cameras.
Mr Shafi, 47, declined to reveal who was driving the Volvo and received six points on top of a previous 11 points already on his licence.
Drivers who build up 12 or more penalty points within a certain period are likely to be disqualified under the 'totting-up' system.
Mr Shafi's solicitor told Bournemouth Magistrates court that a driving disqualification would risk his job and stop him taking his mother to the GP.
Mr Shafi, from Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, received a £750 fine.
Road safety campaigners expressed concern at the decision.
I know I live in Hull, but there is a fishy smell about this. Abu-Haris Shafi worried about the risk to his job if he was disqualified? What about the hundreds he made redundant in his windscreen business? He can get a taxi to take his mother to the doctor's. It is a bad example to set for L Drivers when the Managing Director of the driving school has 17 points on his driving licence.
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Exactly what I thought when I read it - "What sort of example does this set for his pupils?"
ReplyDeleteQuite frankly it stinks, if I had been on the bench I think I might have been wanting this referred to a higher court for sentencing!
Probably Shafi and the magistrate are from the same Freemasons Lodge?
ReplyDeleteProbably a friend of Lord Ahmed.
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