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Minicab driver who ran over cyclist whilst distracted on mobilephone spared jail
On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 08:05:56 +0100, Bod wrote:
On 21/04/2017 23:24, JNugent wrote: On 21/04/2017 17:56, Bod wrote: On 21/04/2017 17:17, JNugent wrote: On 21/04/2017 15:41, Bod wrote: On 21/04/2017 15:12, JNugent wrote: On 21/04/2017 12:46, Bod wrote: On 21/04/2017 12:33, JNugent wrote: On 21/04/2017 11:00, Bod wrote: On 21/04/2017 10:57, Bod wrote: *How was this not "dangerous 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 *Correction* dangerous driving The distinction is whether driving falls below the required standard or far below the required standard. The latter is always (and rightly) hard to prove. But the driver got a 15 month ban and a significant fine (£1250 IIRC, and no mean penalty for someone whose livelihood has just been withdrawn from him). I wouldn't like to be on the paying end of his next insurance premium, either. Should he also have been fastened to a hurdle, drawn by horse to a place of execution, then hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded and quartered (chopped into four pieces)? --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com It is NOT illegal to use a hands free phone whilst driving so one assumes that he was holding the phone. Not really, since there is no report of a charge for that. The story goes on at length about use of a mobile phone, and it may well be that he was using an ordinary hand-held phone (thereby doing so illegally), but it doesn't actually say so, which is sort of my point. People with phones stuck to their ears should be made an example of with jail sentences. That'll immediately greatly reduce the incidences of these sort of accidents. You do know that use of a hand-held phone while driving is not punishable by a prison sentence, don't you? And that it isn't even always an offence? Read what I said again "People with phones stuck to their ears should be made an example of with jail sentences" I never said it was prisonable at the moment. That's what you call a squirm, isn't it? A squirm for simply suggesting it being made an imprisonable offence? You need to hon your reading and comprehension skills. That is not what you wrote. This is what I wrote ""People with phones stuck to their ears should be made an example of with jail sentences". Which way do *you* comprehend that sentence? I think he's turning into a cyclist, he doesn't understand plain English anymore. -- Q: If you have a mothball in one hand and another mothball in the other hand, what would you have? A: The undivided attention of a very large moth! |
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