Driver stops speeding policeman

A "speeding" policeman was recently stopped by an angry motorist he had pulled over for the same offence moments before.

09:47 28 November 2004

A "speeding" policeman was recently stopped by an angry motorist he had pulled over for the same offence moments before.

Driver Neil Saunders admitted to travelling at 76mph when he was pulled over on the M20 near Ashford in Kent on 17th November, but became "irked" when he saw the police officer that stopped him speeding after their encounter.

"What really irked me was that he got back on the motorway, I got behind him and a couple of minutes later he must have been doing 80mph," Mr Saunders told the Kentish Express.

"There were no flashing light. He wasn't on an emergency call," he added.

Having caught up with the police car at Junction 7, the Maidstone turnoff, the frustrated motorist flashed for the officer to pull over, before accusing him of hypocrisy.

"He denied speeding, but I told him that I had just phoned Ashford police station to complain," Mr Saunders said.

The enraged motorist accepted that he himself was guilty of speeding and was prepared to apologise for snapping at the policemen when originally stopped, having asked the officer whether he had "anything better to do" than pull over people who were not driving dangerously.

But the determined driver said he would not back down over his own speeding complaint against the policeman.

"I'm prepared to phone the officer who stopped me to apologise for throwing my rattle out of my pram, but I'm not prepared to back down," said Mr Saunders.

A spokesman for Kent Police confirmed that a complaint had been received, and the matter was being investigated.