On 21/04/2017 10:57, Bod wrote:

*How was this not "careless driving"*?

Abdelyekini Olafusi was found guilty of careless driving after he ran
down the woman in Clerkenwell.

Olafusi clipped the back of the 41-year-old cyclist’s wheel when he
turned right at traffic lights on Gray's Inn Road on May 27.

The cyclist, an Italian woman, fell off her bike to the ground but
Olafusi did not stop and continued to drive over her.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime...-a3519751.html

"How was this not careless driving?"?

Eh?

It *was* careless driving.

The exact quote is: "[he] was found guilty of careless driving after he
ran down the woman".

Also:

"He was found guilty at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Thursday,
received a 15 month driving ban and was ordered to pay costs totalling
£1260."

For once, it sounds like an open and shut case.

There was no mention of the mobile phone offence, but perhaps it was a
hands-free phone and therefore wasn't an offence but an aggravating
factor in the careless driving case.

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