that snowdon f#ckwit

[sadlonelygit]

didn't bother to turn up to crown court............again!
he used to live up the road from me and he was a pretty sad individual back then, but ignoring a crown court.......well pretty sure there's going to be a 5am knock on his door in the near future.

[BBROWN1664]

Eh? What have I missed?

[richfzs]

presumably the guy who drove his 4x4 up snowdon, then after getting it stuck and rescued, thought he'd do it again?

[chris.biker]

This may be the Snowdon f#ckwit's activities then?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14784515

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-15108712

[Tori]

It is mildly amusing though!

[richfzs]

It is 

[rustyrider]

If it's possible to walk up Snowdon, it's possible to drive up it in a 4x4 (Even a Frontera although I'd be happier using my Range Rover...).  How can anyone be charged with dangerous driving offences (as the BBC news story says) when it isn't public highway?  There may be local byelaws that say you can't drive up it but that doesn't constitute a motoring offence, only an offence against a local byelaw.

Anyway, didn't Top Gear drive up Snowdon in a Discovery?  OK, they probably got permission to do it but what's the difference?

[richfzs]

 

Anyway, didn't Top Gear drive up Snowdon in a Discovery?  OK, they probably got permission to do it but what's the difference?

Nope, that was one of the more remote peaks in the Scottish Highlands

[richfzs]

If it's possible to walk up Snowdon, it's possible to drive up it in a 4x4

Horse shit. Plenty of places you can walk, but have no chance with a 4x4. Dougie Lampkin and his trials bike, probably, but a Frontera/Range Rover etc, no chance.

Snowden itself, yes you almost certainly can drive to the top, but thats got nothing to do with the fact you can walk up it.

[chaz]

thought you were lucky to get up town in a frontera

[pitternator]

I reckon its aliens.....fed up with crop circles....moving onto cars on summits now.

[GringoRojo]

Clarkson was up a mountain at Cape Wrath. NWmost corner near Durness, and the MoD bombing target island in the sea. pity the shells missed him.

[Pat]

If it's possible to walk up Snowdon, it's possible to drive up it in a 4x4 (Even a Frontera although I'd be happier using my Range Rover...).  How can anyone be charged with dangerous driving offences (as the BBC news story says) when it isn't public highway?  There may be local byelaws that say you can't drive up it but that doesn't constitute a motoring offence, only an offence against a local byelaw.

Anyway, didn't Top Gear drive up Snowdon in a Discovery?  OK, they probably got permission to do it but what's the difference?

It doesn't have to be a public highway for traffic laws to apply, just some place that is open to the public eg. you can get done for dangerous driving or being over the alcohol limit in a Tescos store car park but not in the staff one at Tescos head office.

[Pat]

No need for him to fear an early morning visit apparently, as he's been bailed & it's been re-scheduled for January:

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2012/08/29/man-accused-of-driving-4x4-up-snowdon-to-stand-trial-in-january-55578-31715916/

[ddtwelve]

haha great stuff , why cant he go up- there in his 4x4 you see lots of motox bikers screaming around the dales where hikers children are walkiing why arnt they prosecuted as well , good one frontera man next time use a wheel lock so they cant take it off 

[rustyrider]

It doesn't have to be a public highway for traffic laws to apply, just some place that is open to the public

I agree, but how can someone be done for dangerous driving when nobody even saw him drive?  They just found his car parked up the mountain the following day.  He could have dropped it there from a helicopter for all the prosecution know.

Had he been driving dangerously, he probably wouldn't have made it up there.

[Fazerider]

It seemed an odd thing to prosecute for to me too, but "dangerous driving" includes ignoring road signs. He doesn't need to have actually endangered anyone... if there's a sign at the bottom to the effect that vehicular access is not permitted he was, according to the law, driving dangerously.
Of course this waste of public money wouldn't be necessary if, instead of giving it back to the owner after retrieving it the first time, they'd just crushed the fecking thing.

[Pat]

It doesn't have to be a public highway for traffic laws to apply, just some place that is open to the public

I agree, but how can someone be done for dangerous driving when nobody even saw him drive?  They just found his car parked up the mountain the following day.  He could have dropped it there from a helicopter for all the prosecution know.

Had he been driving dangerously, he probably wouldn't have made it up there.

Fair point, I guess we'll have to wait until January to find out! 

[pitternator]

FREE THE SNOWDEN ONE !!!!!!

[DryRob]

He should have rang the police and reported the car stolen, that way they wouldn't have found it and there'd be no evidence to prosecute.