Traffic lawyer fined for horn toot at booze checkpoint, court case fails
A traffic lawyer was fined after sounding his horn at an alcohol checkpoint and lost his court challenge against the penalty.
A traffic lawyer received a fine after tooting his horn at a police booze checkpoint. He challenged the fine in court but was unsuccessful. A police officer described the horn activation as "quite an aggressive toot".
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Traffic lawyer toots horn at booze checkpoint, gets fined, takes it to court, and loses
A police officer said the beeping at a checkpoint was “quite an aggressive toot activation”.