A man who got behind the wheel of an Audi A3 while on ketamine and cocaine has been banned from driving for five years.

Joshua Bridgman was also handed a suspended prison sentence of a year-and-a-half when he appeared at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on Thursday (November 9).

It comes after the 29-year-old was caught driving near Wallingford with ketamine, cocaine and benzoylecgonine in his system on March 25.

Shortly after midnight, Thames Valley Police officers spotted the Audi parked in a lay-by on Icknield Road with its lights on and multiple people inside.

While the rural crime taskforce officers checked the Audi’s details, a woman, Danielle Collins, 27, drove the car past them slowly.

She then swapped seats with Bridgman, who drove past the officers again.

When officers put on their blue lights to pull Bridgman over, he reversed and hit the curb. Another police car then arrived and boxed the Audi in.

Both Bridgman and Collins were arrested for driving under the influence of drugs. Checks also showed that Bridgman was disqualified from driving at the time.

The defendants, both of Meadowside, Dorchester-on-Thames, both plead guilty at their hearings on September 28.

Collins, who was found to have ketamine and benzoylecgonine in her system, was given a one-year community order with a drug rehabilitation requirement at last week’s sentencing.

Investigating officer PC Ben Little said: “I am pleased with these results as Bridgman and Collins both drove while heavily under the influence of drugs, putting other motorists at risk.”

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23920436.audi-a3-driver-sentenced-drug-driving-near-wallingford/

On 13/11/2023 06:14 pm, Simon Mason wrote:

> A man who got behind the wheel of an Audi A3 while on ketamine and cocaine has been banned from driving for five years.
>
> Joshua Bridgman was also handed a suspended prison sentence of a year-and-a-half when he appeared at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on Thursday (November 9).
>
> It comes after the 29-year-old was caught driving near Wallingford with ketamine, cocaine and benzoylecgonine in his system on March 25.
>
> Shortly after midnight, Thames Valley Police officers spotted the Audi parked in a lay-by on Icknield Road with its lights on and multiple people inside.
>
> While the rural crime taskforce officers checked the Audi’s details, a woman, Danielle Collins, 27, drove the car past them slowly.
>
> She then swapped seats with Bridgman, who drove past the officers again.
>
> When officers put on their blue lights to pull Bridgman over, he reversed and hit the curb. Another police car then arrived and boxed the Audi in.
>
> Both Bridgman and Collins were arrested for driving under the influence of drugs. Checks also showed that Bridgman was disqualified from driving at the time AND WAS THEREFORE NOTHING BUT A CHAV-CYCLIST.
>
> The defendants, both of Meadowside, Dorchester-on-Thames, both plead guilty at their hearings on September 28.
>
> Collins, who was found to have ketamine and benzoylecgonine in her system, was given a one-year community order with a drug rehabilitation requirement at last week’s sentencing.
>
> Investigating officer PC Ben Little said: “I am pleased with these results as Bridgman and Collins both drove while heavily under the influence of drugs, putting other motorists at risk.”
>
> https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23920436.audi-a3-driver-sentenced-drug-driving-near-wallingford/
>

oxfordgirl1974 13th November 4:04 pm
User ID: 58363
I really don't understand why somebody fairly young would go to the trouble of taking driving lessons, pass their test and then throw all that money/effort away by driving while on drugs (or whilst being over the drink drive limit).. Just seems so pointless.
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Indeed - the action of thick chavs.

Simon Mason <swldxer1958@gmail.com> wrote:
> oxfordgirl1974 13th November 4:04 pm
> User ID: 58363
> I really don't understand why somebody fairly young would go to the
> trouble of taking driving lessons, pass their test and then throw all
> that money/effort away by driving while on drugs (or whilst being over
> the drink drive limit).. Just seems so pointless.
> -------------------------
> Indeed - the action of thick chavs.

Thick chavs…the sort that spend £12000 on a bicycle, then cycle into
something, street furniture or whatever, because they don’t see beyond
their front axle.

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alicesgrannymk1 2 hrs ago
User ID: 1295707
All these drug drivers are of low intelligence. They live pointless pathetic lives and put decent people at risk. They don’t serve any purpose..

On 14/11/2023 11:33 am, Simon Mason wrote:

> alicesgrannymk1 2 hrs ago
> User ID: 1295707

> All these drug drivers are of low intelligence. They live pointless pathetic lives and put decent people at risk. They don’t serve any purpose.

All *druggies* are of low intelligence.

Ditto people who jump off bridges, "thinking" that they can fly.

Simon Mason <swldxer1958@gmail.com> wrote:
> alicesgrannymk1 2 hrs ago
> User ID: 1295707
> All these drug drivers are of low intelligence. They live pointless
> pathetic lives and put decent people at risk. They don’t serve any purpose.

One can almost feel the “…so let’s get rid of them…” hanging in the air…

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Spike

Jip18 13th November 3:22 pm
User ID: 1996542
We need to issue tougher sentencing and fines. This is laughable when you can imagine what could have happened. They could have killed an innocent person.

Last Updated: 1 hr ago

On 14/11/2023 01:40 pm, Simon Mason wrote:

> Jip18 13th November 3:22 pm
> User ID: 1996542
> We need to issue tougher sentencing and fines. This is laughable when you can imagine what could have happened. They could have killed an innocent person.

So could every chav-cyclist on the FOOTway.

So for such cases, we obviously need to impose an immediate custodial
(no going home for an overnight bag), long enough (and with a
sufficiently robust fine) as to be enough to cause serious financial
dislocation to the chav's household.

QUOTE: Investigating officer PC Ben Little said: “I am pleased with these results as Bridgman and Collins both drove while heavily under the influence of drugs, putting other motorists at risk.” ENDS

Bugger them - they've got a steel cage.
What about pedestrians, cyclists, disabled people and animals?
Don't they matter?

Simon Mason <swldxer1958@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jip18 13th November 3:22 pm
> User ID: 1996542

> We need to issue tougher sentencing and fines. This is laughable when you
> can imagine what could have happened. They could have killed an innocent person.

> Last Updated: 1 hr ago

Supposition piled upon supposition. Useless as a modus.

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Spike

Simon Mason <swldxer1958@gmail.com> wrote:
> QUOTE: Investigating officer PC Ben Little said: “I am pleased with these
> results as Bridgman and Collins both drove while heavily under the
> influence of drugs, putting other motorists at risk.” ENDS
>

> Bugger them - they've got a steel cage.

> What about pedestrians, cyclists, disabled people and animals? Don't they matter?

Not to cyclists, apparently, who disdainfully dismiss the numbers of
pedestrians killed by cyclists as ‘just a handful’.

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Spike

Following an investigation by the Thames Valley Police Rural Crime Taskforce, a man and a woman have been sentenced for driving offences in Wallingford.

Magistrates sentenced Joshua Bridgman, aged 29, of Meadowside, Dorchester-on-Thames, to four months in prison, suspended for a year-and-a-half, at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on Thursday (9/11).

The magistrates also disqualified him from driving for five years and gave him a community order with a drug rehabilitation requirement.

Bridgman pleaded guilty to three counts of driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit, namely ketamine, cocaine and benzoylecgonine, and one count each of driving whilst disqualified and using a motor vehicle on a road/public place without third party insurance at the same court on 28 September.

At the same hearing, the magistrates disqualified Danielle Collins, aged 27, of Meadowside, Dorchester-on-Thames, from driving for two years and gave her a one-year community order with a drug rehabilitation requirement.

She pleaded guilty to two counts of driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit, namely ketamine and benzoylecgonine, at the hearing on 28 September.

Shortly after midnight on 25 March this year, officers from the Rural Crime Taskforce were completing rural burglary patrols on Icknield Road when they noticed an Audi A3 parked in a lay-by with its lights on and multiple people inside.

While the officers checked the vehicles details on the police system, Collins drove the Audi slowly past the officers’ car.

The officers then saw Collins swap seats with Bridgman and he drove past the officers again.

The officers put on their blue lights to get Bridgman to pull over but instead, he reversed and hit the curb.

More officers in another police car then arrived and boxed the Audi in.

Checks on Bridgman showed he was disqualified from driving and he was suspected to be under the influence of drugs, as did Collins, so they were arrested.

Blood tests later showed they were both above the specified drug-driving limits.

They were both charged on 12 September.

Investigating officer PC Ben Little, of the Rural Crime Taskforce, said: “I am pleased with these results as Bridgman and Collins both drove while heavily under the influence of drugs, putting other motorists at risk.”

There was another case very much like this one posted only a day or so ago
by Mason.

Simon Mason <swldxer1958@gmail.com> wrote:
> Following an investigation by the Thames Valley Police Rural Crime
> Taskforce, a man and a woman have been sentenced for driving offences in Wallingford.
>
> Magistrates sentenced Joshua Bridgman, aged 29, of Meadowside,
> Dorchester-on-Thames, to four months in prison, suspended for a
> year-and-a-half, at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on Thursday (9/11).

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Spike

On 14/11/2023 06:10 pm, Simon Mason wrote:

> Following an investigation by the Thames Valley Police Rural Crime Taskforce, a man and a woman have been sentenced for driving offences in Wallingford.
>
> Magistrates sentenced Joshua Bridgman, aged 29, of Meadowside, Dorchester-on-Thames, to four months in prison, suspended for a year-and-a-half, at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on Thursday (9/11).
>
> The magistrates also disqualified him from driving for five years and gave him a community order with a drug rehabilitation requirement.
>
> Bridgman pleaded guilty to three counts of driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit, namely ketamine, cocaine and benzoylecgonine, and one count each of driving whilst disqualified and using a motor vehicle on a road/public place without third party insurance at the same court on 28 September.

"disqualified"

So NOT a driver. A mere chav-cyclist. That is all he was.

> At the same hearing, the magistrates disqualified Danielle Collins, aged 27, of Meadowside, Dorchester-on-Thames, from driving for two years and gave her a one-year community order with a drug rehabilitation requirement.
> She pleaded guilty to two counts of driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit, namely ketamine and benzoylecgonine, at the hearing on 28 September.
> Shortly after midnight on 25 March this year, officers from the Rural Crime Taskforce were completing rural burglary patrols on Icknield Road when they noticed an Audi A3 parked in a lay-by with its lights on and multiple people inside.
> While the officers checked the vehicles details on the police system, Collins drove the Audi slowly past the officers’ car.
> The officers then saw Collins swap seats with Bridgman and he drove past the officers again.
> The officers put on their blue lights to get Bridgman to pull over but instead, he reversed and hit the curb.

Was the curb anywhere near the kerb?

> More officers in another police car then arrived and boxed the Audi in.
> Checks on Bridgman showed he was disqualified from driving and he was suspected to be under the influence of drugs, as did Collins, so they were arrested.
> Blood tests later showed they were both above the specified drug-driving limits.
> They were both charged on 12 September.
> Investigating officer PC Ben Little, of the Rural Crime Taskforce, said: “I am pleased with these results as Bridgman and Collins both drove while heavily under the influence of drugs, putting other motorists at risk.”

QUOTE: JOSH BRIDGMAN, 29, of Meadside, Dorchester-on-Thames, admitted driving a VW Golf on Rushmore Lane, Checkendon, while over the limit for drug ketamine. He also admitted personal possession of the class B drug. He was fined £80 for the drug possession and given a community order with five probation sessions for the drug driving offence. The bench banned him from the roads for three years and ordered he pay £85 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service. ENDS

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23624091.oxford-magistrates-court-results-latest-scales-justice/