A COUNTY Limerick tractor driver has escaped conviction at Limerick District Court for driving too slow on a motorway after a judge said he had “seen many things before the court”, but that this was the first case of its kind he had seen. Judge O’Donnell’s comments came after an Ahane man was charged with the offence of driving too slowly on the motorway near Ballysimon.
Evidence was heard that he drove his tractor on the motorway last July as the only alternative route home available was “through town” and he thought it safer to be on the motorway.
Judge O’Donnell said he had “never seen anything like it before the court,” but advised that the farm machinery driver take an alternative route from one end of the city to the next.
The matter was struck out.
