Driving 3 miles to beach and fined £200

[nancybotwinbloom]

A friend of a friend drove three miles to her nearest beach and took her newborn for a walk in the pram.

She was surrounded by police and fined £200.

This was today.

I think it must of been scary to be surrounded by police with the pram and the newborn. Surely only one of them needed to speak to her. Not mob handed. Or are they all unreasonable?

Is it unreasonable to drive three miles for a walk? I'm at a point now I can't work out what's local and what's not. I don't think she was in the wrong in all honesty.

Or is it that she drove there that it's not local enough.

I walk nearly three miles to the park with the dog and walk through the park and walk back most days and I don't think I am unreasonable?

What is local classed as these days?

That's appalling.

Until I've had a knee op, I can only walk on level tracks and it's very hilly where I live. On a couple of sunny days, I've driven 10 miles to the coast where it's nice and level for a walk. I'd be really pissed off if I was reduced to walking up and down my road over and over again, all 200 yards or so of it, which would be the nearest alternative.

Three miles is nothing. A lot of people in urban areas can't get to any open space in under 3 miles.

Is she in Wales? My MIL was stopped by the police two weeks ago and she asked about driving to the beach, as she is 73 and walks her dogs on the beach. The beach is ten minutes walk from her door but her dogs are —poorly trained— used to jumping in the car and being driven there. The police told her it wasn’t allowed.

Well where I live we're explicitly told to stay within 5km of our home so it's pretty clear? Aren't the rules similar where you are? So if she's outside the allocated distance then The police were just doing their job?

For a start 5km is 3 miles....

Secondly there is no distance specified in England. You must be posting from elsewhere.

Nah - I don’t buy it either. You’ve heard this third hand op? I don’t think the police surrounded her and read her the riot act. Sounds like a total exaggeration....

My best friend said six police officers surrounded her.

I don't know her friend personally. Maybe her friend exaggerated how many police were there. I can't vouch for her but my friend told me what I've said here.

She's my best friend I know when she's exaggerating.

You're not supposed to drive anywhere for exercise. It's supposed to start and finish at home.

Her friend not her who was surrounded.

6 police 😂😂😂

@SadderThanEeyore Why on earth do you think that? You are wrong.

The police cannot enforce guidance, they can only enforce the law.

I could believe that may happen in Wales.

The rules here specify that exercise should start and end at home, unless you have a specific disability or condition that means you cannot do that.

We are in wales and you are not allowed to drive for exercise unless exceptional eg disabled and not suitable paths near your house

Worra load rubbish😁😂🤣

This sounds like social media sad-face, second hand bollocks.

You're not supposed to drive anywhere for exercise. It's supposed to start and finish at home.

Utter bollox

6?! Yeah right.

In England that is

Absolutely outrageous

@Pinkcanoftan Or Scotland. It may be the case that that poster is in Wales and is posting about their laws but that’s it’s pointless posting as if that is the law throughout Britain.

This would not be allowed in Wales, and yes it is bollocks!

If you want to walk, walk round the block. Getting in a car and travelling for a "walk" isn't what we are meant to be doing is it?

Not everyone lives somewhere that there is a "block" to walk around. And it has never been said this lockdown that you can't drive to exercise.

@nancybotwinbloom

My best friend said six police officers surrounded her.

I don't know her friend personally. Maybe her friend exaggerated how many police were there. I can't vouch for her but my friend told me what I've said here.

She's my best friend I know when she's exaggerating.

But does your friend know when her work colleague is exaggerating? Do you know when her work colleague is exaggerating?

There’s a reason hearsay isn’t allowed in court.

You’ve absolutely no way of knowing whether this happened. None. Neither does your friend. It could have. It could not. But this is the sort of thing that is ripe for exaggeration by the person at the centre of it.

[quote Nicknacky]@SadderThanEeyore Why on earth do you think that? You are wrong.[/quote]
If @SadderThanEeyore lives in Wales then she is right, and it is law, not guidelines. Exercise must begin at home unless there is a good reason to drive there eg. disability. The police are enforcing that here, they are stopping people and patrolling beach car parks

okay - so that happened

but anyway rather than driving to walk - maybe just walk?

Three police cars were parked randomly in my local park a few days ago, London. I was running and wondered if something was happening. I concluded there wasn't, seemed like they were parked for supervising social distancing.