Mr Hughes should clearly have been preaching what he practices - because clearly he knows that exceeding the speed limit isn't necessarily dangerous.

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The council has said the speed limit would make the roads less dangerous and encourage walking and cycling.

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Dangerous offenders could be banned from sports grounds or have limit imposed on how much alcohol they could drink.

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He has called for a 30mph speed limit on the road, calling it a "dangerous bend".

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Driver Christopher Howson, who had no licence and was twice the legal alcohol limit at the time, admitted causing death by dangerous driving.

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But the dangerous thing would be to hold hostage the simple raising of the debt limit, which everyone agrees has to be done regardless.

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Morgan had denied dangerous driving as well as careless driving, insisting he had been driving at the speed limit.

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The CPS said in February he was to be charged with dangerous driving, using a vehicle with defective brakes and breaching a 7.5 tonne weight limit.

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