Rules of The Road - Double Standards?

Over the past 10 years or so, the Gardai have been enforcing the rules of the road much more vigoursly than before - especially with respect to speeding (though where they catch speeding motorists is often debatable in terms of safety), drink driving, tax and insurance and other matters. And pretty much rightly so.

So it angers me to read that a Detective Garda crashed his unmarked garda car on the M50 motorway after spending an afternoon in the pub with colleagues watching a rugby match, stank of booze according to the motorist whose vehicle he collided with, left the scene before he could be breathalysed and now seems to have the support of his colleagues in the case which is being heard.

This smacks to me of some memebrs of the Gardai who don't think that they rules and standards of the road that they enforce simply don't apply to them.:mad:

Garda in pub before crash

TOM TUITE, Irish Times

A "top detective" spent an afternoon watching a rugby match in a pub before an unmarked Garda car he was driving crashed on the M50 motorway, a court has heard.

Det Garda Kevin Keys, who is attached to Mountjoy station in Dublin, admits he lost control of the car which was involved in a collision on the evening February 6, 2010.

However, he has pleaded not guilty at Dublin District Court to dangerous driving and taking the unmarked Ford Mondeo without authorisation from his garda station.

Gareth Wooster told Judge Conal Gibbons that at about 7.50 pm he had been driving his Hyundai Sante Fe 4X4 along the motorway when to his left the maroon Ford Mondeo, which was driven by Det Gda Keys, approached junction 11. The Mondeo driver attempted to enter the exit which was cordoned off with traffic cones but then came back on to the M50.

/MOD SNIP: Please don't quote full articles and provide a link to the original article.