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Article: Putting brakes on top speed.(Features)
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- Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
- Article date:
- October 3, 2003
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Byline: By Steve Hughes
A couple of controversial topics dominate this week's motoring news, and they both relate to speed.
Firstly there is the utterly unacceptable number of high-speed police chases, which resulted in more than 30 deaths last year.
It is a major dilemma, because you cannot allow criminals to drive away with impunity, but on the other hand you can't endanger the lives of innocent bystanders with these lunatic high-speed car chases either.
The ...