{"id":9959,"date":"2012-08-13T23:44:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T22:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=9959"},"modified":"2012-08-13T23:44:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T22:44:42","slug":"australian-pensioner-drives-wrong-way-on-motorway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=9959","title":{"rendered":"Australian Pensioner Drives Wrong Way On Motorway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if the story about a <a title=\"90-year old kills another motorist driving the wrong way on A30\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=9929\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">90-year old man killing another motorist<\/a> by driving the wrong way on the A30 in the UK wasn\u2019t enough, there\u2019s a <a title=\"Australian pensioner drives wrong way on motorway\" href=\"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/chaos-pensioner-drives-wrong-way-motorway-145459684.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">story from Australia<\/a> about a similar incident (albeit, without anyone dying this time).<\/p>\n<p>Ronald Jackson, whose age isn\u2019t given, had recently passed a refresher course. But he\u2019d also recently suffered a stroke &#8211; and although it isn\u2019t clear if this was connected with the course, it WAS cited as a reason he may have become \u201cconfused\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson drove for more than 7 miles, weaving through oncoming traffic whilst towing a caravan!<\/p>\n<p>His defence lawyer said his only other offence was a speeding ticket 30 years ago. Well, that makes it all right, then.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson was banned. The poorly written article doesn\u2019t go into any more detail.<\/p>\n<p><del><a title=\"Cassie's Law E-petition\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Don\u2019t forget to sign the e-petition for Cassie\u2019s Law.<\/a><\/del>\u00a0(Petition now closed)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if the story about a 90-year old man killing another motorist by driving the wrong way on the A30 in the UK wasn\u2019t enough, there\u2019s a story from Australia about a similar incident (albeit, without anyone dying this time). Ronald Jackson, whose age isn\u2019t given, had recently passed a refresher course. But he\u2019d also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,86,87,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers","category-news","category-world-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}