News headline.. speeding Grandmother

Isn't it safer to stay behind a dangerous driver, leaving a safe stopping distance for yourself?

Jane10 I wondered too why she had been left stranded at the side of the road? Is it common practice to impound a vehicle when someone is caught speeding? Was it ten minutes walk from home or 2 hours? Was it broad daylight in the town centre, or after dark on a lonely road? Was it a motorway with no pavement sidewalk? We only have half the story.

Maybe we are applying UK mindsets to what happened in another country. Their laws may be different as to the penalty for law breaking.
But the headline suggests that the silly season starts earlier elsewhere.
Remember; good news rarely sells newspapers or attracts a large TV audience

Absolutely Callistemon - sound defence in these anarchic times ??☘️?

Did she have grey hair though?
That's a really important point.

The other point is that she was doing 30km ph over the speed limit.
So, she was doing 18.64 mph over the speed limit.
What was she doing out anyway?

72 year old grandmother of four, with grey roots, was caught speeding at 88.64 mph on a deserted motorway during lockdown.
Interviewed outside her £450,000 home, the elderly woman said "it's my first offence, guv, and I was going to visit my even more elderly parents who needed my support; the motorway service station was shut when I needed a comfort break."

If she didn’t know what she was doing she shouldn’t be driving. I have to say it does make a refreshing change from all our same old, same old, news here in UK even if like our news reporting it is hyped up.

Are cars impounded at the scene though? What if was on a motorway? You can't leave a person stranded there.

Yes she had a exemplary license so she says.
But it may have been her first fine/points etc but i would bet she has done the same many times and not been caught.
And i don`t care how old she is,she knew what she was doing .

geekesse - "^There are plenty of grandmothers who like driving, and one or two have admitted to enjoying speed^" ?

I'm assuming you are referring to driving too fast ...?

love it Callistemon

I remember getting upset over the same thing about a year ago on the American news; a 'Killer Grandma' was on the lam, and the search was on. I thought that she had killed a grandchild, but no, she had killed her husband and another man. Being a grandmother had absolutely nothing to do with the story, and she was only 59 at the time.

Why does society need to label elderly women as grandmothers? They don't do it for men.

SueDonim you beat me to it!

72 year old grey-haired Grandmother of 4, caught speeding at 65 mph in a 60mph area, said, as she stood outside her detached £450,000 home, it was not a fair cop, guv, etc etc etc.

Are you on GN, 72 year old Grandmother?

I don’t agree with your DH Canadiangran.
The reporter has merely sexed up his/her report to get more people interested.
It’s an example of what I’d call inverse stereotyping - the stereotypical grandmother would be at home benignly playing dominoes with her grandchildren, reading stories, or baking muffins or whatever.
This grandmother though is clearly a badass grandma who defies the stereotype. She breaks the law and then reinforces her image by loudly complaining that she’s already a victim of injustice.

She’s actually a stereotype herself - I think Monty Python did a sketch about evil grannies/witches and Catherine Tate portrayed a particularly horrible Nan.
She’s even infiltrated children’s TV programmes - I think it was Ben and Holly who had Nanny Plum who certainly didn’t conform to the nice Grandma stereotype.

Did they mention how much her house was worth, too?

Read the thread ‘Can you - do you - drive?’ There are plenty of grandmothers who like driving, and one or two have admitted to enjoying speed ?

Canadiangran. good point. It’s like “pensioner Mary ....”Mum of three....”

The media were obviously shocked that a grandmother could possibly have done such a thing. Surely you realise that all women over 70 spend most of their time knitting and cuddling their grandchildren.

They’ve not read Gangsta Granny.

Was she a grandmother though ?