Charge dropped against speeding ambulance driver

London - A speeding charge against a British ambulance driver delivering an organ for a transplant operation has been dropped, union officials said on Friday.

Mike Ferguson, 56, from West Yorkshire, was due to appear in court on Monday. He had pleaded not guilty to the charge.

A GMB union spokeswoman said lawyers working on Ferguson's behalf had received a letter from the Crown Prosecution Service saying the prosecution would not go ahead.

"Mike is absolutely overjoyed," she said.

Ferguson was charged with speeding while delivering a liver from St James's Hospital in Leeds for an organ transplant patient in Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge on January 16. He was driving a car with blue flashing lights when he was clocked at 104 mph by speed cameras. Two police forces clocked him speeding on cameras, but only one decided to prosecute.

Earlier this week he delivered a petition with more than 20,000 supporting signatures to the prime minister's home in Downing Street calling for a review of the legislation under which he was being prosecuted.

"My faith in human nature has been boosted over the last five months because of the public's reaction to my circumstances," Ferguson, an ambulance man with 36 years experience, said in a statement released with the petition. -- Associated Press

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