fire engines in w midlands are now limited to travelling at speeds of under 45 in 30 zones and under 80 on motorways - in the name of safety.



as the association of british drivers spokesman nigel humphries says: 'it is hard to imagine
anything more stupid than training an emergency driver to drive safely and fast - and then imposing a meaningless and arbitrary speed limit for the sake of "safety".'



this country is well on the way to a hell created by fearful managers who don't have the sense to realise that saving lives is more important than sticking to arbitrary speed limits, that risk is a standard part of life and that they will have further deaths on their hands if they limit the speed of fire engines.



if my child died in a fire and i discovered that the fire engine driver had been limited to some stupid speed limit by some idiotic, dogmatic little cunt of a pen-pusher, i'd be 'round to that moronic pen-pusher's office to sort out his attitude - with an axe - and i wouldn't stop until the bastard was dead.



i hope the fire engine drivers will ignore this idiotic rule, save the lives with which we entrust them, and treat the twat who gave them this order as he deserves : scrape the stupid piece of shit off their boots as they next climb into their engine to do their job with the determination and courage with which we're all so familiar and for which we're all so grateful.