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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to make deliberate and persistent "tailgating" a Criminal offence and catch offenders by using cameras. More details
Submitted by Edwood Walker – Deadline to sign up by: 20 February 2007 – Signatures: 87
More details from petition creator
"Tailgating" (persistently driving a vehicle too close to the rear of another at speed) is a deliberate threat to the lives of the driver and passengers of the vehicle in front, and leads to many, if not most serious accidents on our roads. The offence is a considered one and no different to a threat using any hazardous but otherwise legitimate tool such as a knife or a shotgun. "Tailgating" should be recognised as a Criminal offence, rather than a mere traffic violation and offenders dealt with accordingly.
Police should be encouraged to target "tailgating" using appropriate technology such as cameras - it appears to be almost ignored at present.
Many lives could be saved and serious injury prevented by a reduction in this deliberately dangerous practice.
Current signatories
Edwood Walker, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- laura martin
- Frazer Mountford
- christopher hughes
- Stephen Townsend
- Alex Bailey
- Adam Broomhall
- Richard T
- Hannah Verrall
- Teg Badhan
- Ben George
- Margaret King
- James Porter
- Alan Patchitt
- Chris Whitbread
- Barry Hobbs
- Iain Phillips
- Stuart McGuire
- Liam Hoskin
- Mark Clowes
- Andrew Wood
- Deborah Walker
- John Davies
- Robert G Nickson
- David Harrison
- Deena Chance
- Keith Andrews
- David Tomkinson
- Darren Wan
- Sandra Mullan
- Samantha Harland
- J Shaw
- Llewelyn Ap Elfed
- Paul Wilmott
- Richard Edwards
- Anthony Page
- dave hunt
- Thomas Manuel
- David North
- Jon Freyne
- Ian Tidmarsh
- Abigail Harvey
- Robert McMillan
- John Fower
- T.J. Bye
- ms h faulkner
- GERAINT JONES
- Richard Whereat
- Timothy Griffiths
- Norma Brooks
- Colin Carter
- Mike Luff
- Mr Granville Norman Davies
- Katy Warburton
- He
- james pickavant
- Thomas Hughes
- Norman Meyer
- SARAH COCKER
- Matthew Edmondson
- Linda Chaney
- Mary Cowx
- Adrian Hollidge
- nicola wilson
- Chris Hills
- JOHN THOMPSON
- Barry Tucker
- Daniel Basford
- Philip Coffey
- Andrew Chaney
- Henry David Hinder
- Carolyn Phillippo
- Aaron Burnard
- David Prior
- Jane Hatcher
- Mat Court
- karen rawnsley
- Anthony G Connor
- Johann Bryant
- Alan Nimmo
- Alison King
- Alan Sullivan
- Sonya Marie Ogden
- Bob Goodall
- Daisy
- Rob
- DAVID COTTON
