SoccerMom Posted 3 October, 2009 Share Posted 3 October, 2009 The BBC made a documentary a year or so ago about an accident - the dangerous driver was a girl Robertson's age. Her mistake was perhaps even graver than Robertson's, in that she undertook a dangerous maneuver that required some pretty rash decision-making: http://hammadin.blogspot.com/2009/05/bbc-anatomy-of-car-crash.html Interesting that the family of the guy who died didn't see the point in a prison sentence for the girl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldskoolsi Posted 3 October, 2009 Share Posted 3 October, 2009 No-one seems to mention the speed he was doing. If it's 124mph as the Sun claims then it wasn't just a case of losing control for a couple of seconds when fiddling with ipod. Fair enough sentence for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egreog Posted 3 October, 2009 Share Posted 3 October, 2009 UK government............soft on crime! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastleighSoulBoy Posted 3 October, 2009 Share Posted 3 October, 2009 32 months is way too short for taking someones life. I wonder whether, if he had been a serving customs officer, who had undergone the Police driving course and was speeding back from a football match, certain posters would have been calling for a lighter sentence. Good point! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the saint in winchester Posted 3 October, 2009 Share Posted 3 October, 2009 No-one seems to mention the speed he was doing. If it's 124mph as the Sun claims then it wasn't just a case of losing control for a couple of seconds when fiddling with ipod. Fair enough sentence for me. Yes, I have made a couple of posts earlier in this thread, and at time of writing I hadn't realized he was speeding to this degree. I must admit that fiddling with an ipod AND driving at 124mph is pretty reprehensible, and does change my earlier comments. It's an accident if driving at 30mph and taking your eye off the road momentarily. To be driving at that speed in itself moves it away from accident to consequence. Then add in fiddling with your ipod, it becomes an inexcusable consequence. Sorry Jordan, you must now recognize the consequences of your actions - speeding plus driving without due care and attention (or dangerous driving). (shakes head in disbelief) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooohTerryHurlock Posted 4 October, 2009 Share Posted 4 October, 2009 Good point! Please look at Post 29 on this thread to see why its not a good point! thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctoroncall Posted 5 October, 2009 Share Posted 5 October, 2009 Let us not forget that there were 2,538 people killed on Britain's roads last year. People seem to think that driving is a right, it's not, it has to be earned (through the driving test) and what seems to be lost afterwards is the first priority of driving a vehicle, the safety of others. Apart from the fact he was using his ipod in some way, we don't know all the circumstances, but considerations need to be made of these and potentially other options (as LGT suggests) could be more appropriate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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