Mike Girouard

Mr Justice S Tinks <jst@justicestinks.org.uk.nospam> wrote in message news:<3EF94590.A9079ADC@justicestinks.org.uk.nospa m>...
> Cars ordered off road in tinted window swoop
>
> Robert Bottomley
> 24/06/2003
>
> http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ne...ory=61376.html
>
> ANGRY motorists were given just 60 minutes to take their cars off the
> road or face prosecution for having blacked-out windows.
>
> One driver and his family had to be towed hundreds of miles home after
> government inspectors swooped on cars with dark tinted glass in
> Manchester city centre.
>
> His children were left "crying in the street" after being stopped.
>
> Inspectors checked 40 vehicles in Manchester at the weekend, and six
> drivers were ordered off the road for having too dark glass.
>
> Civil servant Brian Burgess, his wife Jacqueline and their four young
> children were forced to endure a six-hour, 200-mile journey by tow-truck
> to their home in Berkshire after being stopped in Grafton Street, close
> to Manchester University.
>
> The Manchester United supporters, from Reading, were visiting the city
> for a weekend's sightseeing, including a visit to Old Trafford.
>
> But they were forced to scrap their plans after they were given just 60
> minutes to take their Chrysler Voyager off the road, shortly after
> arriving in the city.
>
> According to the inspector, the side driver and passenger windows only
> allowed 18 per cent of light through.
>
> Mr Burgess, 44, bought the R-registered vehicle second-hand three years
> ago, and it is thought a previous owner had the windows tinted.
>
> Mr Burgess today blasted the Vehicle Inspectorate after he, his wife,
> nine-year-old twin daughters, and two sons aged 11 and 15 became
> stranded and had to miss out on seeing the sights.
>
> He said: "They gave me one hour to change it. What could I do on
> Saturday night in one hour? We could not even drive home.
>
> "We came to see your wonderful city and now my memory of Manchester is
> seeing my children crying in the street because they thought their mum
> and dad were going to be carted off to the police station."
>
> The spot-checks by the Vehicle Inspectorate follow a recent fatal
> accident in North Wales in which a motorcyclist was in collision with a
> car with tinted windows.
>
> A spokesman for the Vehicle Inspectorate said: "The legal limits for
> visibility are 75 per cent light through the windscreen and 70 per cent
> on the front side windows for vehicles built after 1 April 1985.
>
> "Mr Burgess's vehicle was not complying with these requirements and so
> posing a threat to road safety."
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Comment:
> You just couldn't make it up. The war against motorists continues
> unabated.
>
> What an over-reaction based upon just one road accident involving a car
> and motorcycle.
>
> Mr J S Tinks


On reflection, I can't recall having seen a Voyager "without" tinted
windows. If Chrysler is selling cars in the UK with windows which do
not meet UK specifications, have they created a possible liability
scenario for themselves if/when accidents occur which can be
attributed to obscured vision due to the tinting?

FoggyTown

Martyn Hodson

"Mike Girouard" <foggytown@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Mr Justice S Tinks <jst@justicestinks.org.uk.nospam> wrote in message
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<snip>
>
> On reflection, I can't recall having seen a Voyager "without" tinted
> windows. If Chrysler is selling cars in the UK with windows which do
> not meet UK specifications, have they created a possible liability
> scenario for themselves if/when accidents occur which can be
> attributed to obscured vision due to the tinting?
>

but not the windscreen or the side windows in the front passenger
compartment doors


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