Spinney
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Ah - searching on 120623 got me this:
So the thing itself is not yet ready for the public to sign.
So the thing itself is not yet ready for the public to sign.
I guess we'll never know.You don't have both sides of the story because the two occupants of the car failed to disclose who was driving and thereby avoided being charged with failing to stop and failing to report. They sound like the type of folk who are going to provide a truthful account of events to help you make up your mind though...
If you have responsibility for a car, then you have responsibility for knowing who is driving it. If you don't know who is driving a car that you're responsible for then you are negligent and thats your problem, not the problem of everyone else in society.Is that something you'd like to see? A person who has no evidence against him of injuring anyone, possibly punished beyond what the courts have already done?
I guess we'll never know.
Ah - searching on 120623 got me this:
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So the thing itself is not yet ready for the public to sign.
Surely it should be fairly simple to legislate to close this loophole. So if the person responsible for the car fails to disclose who was driving they get whacked with the maximum sentence/fine/points of whatever offence has been committed. So in this case Dangerous driving, failure to stop at the scene.
Maybe, but the stiffer the sentence the less likely someone is to take the wrap. And I suspect some proper investigation by police could unpick most false stories quite quickly.Doesn't that simply mean that horrible, indecent human beings like this driver will simply use a stooge as the person responsible for the car? That's pretty much what happens already, criminals routinely exploit DOC cover and the car's registered to Mr Homer Simpson.
'In cases of momentary lapses of concentration it is not police policy to prosecute drivers !' You may like to check with your local force .It doesn't surprise me. They aren't interested as the civil side of the law will 'sort it' - that's effectively what the police officer said to me - 'your insurance/solicitor will sort it out, despite the severity of your injury'. CBA !