Ever wonder What's the point in Prosecuting Motorists?

[spen666]

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crim...ted-on-mobile-phone-spared-jail-a3519751.html

I don't know what to say- using phone, causes serious injury and fails to stop and still not given. a custodial sentence...

 

[rugby bloke]

Thought he had driven over a speed bump ??? There are no speed bumps any where near that junction.

 

[Tin Pot]

If conceding authority on violence to the state is not protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty what should the population do?

 

[glasgowcyclist]

fails to stop

He stopped at the scene, says the report, but not before running over the victim.

I'd like to have seen at least a 4 week sentence.

 

[raleighnut]

Dreadful.

 

[spen666]

He stopped at the scene, says the report, but not before running over the victim.

I'd like to have seen at least a 4 week sentence.

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

3 paragraphs later....

Olafusi stopped at the scene and was charged with careless and inconsiderate driving on November 22 2016.

Great journalism!


I would have liked to see a sentence of at least 6 months

 

[Milkfloat]

I would trade off a custodial sentence with a longer ban - at least 5 years would be a start.

 

[Tin Pot]

Guns can be licensed right? If the same guy walked down the street and shot this woman by mistake and through carelessness would he get hard time?

 

[jonny jeez]

Guns can be licensed right? If the same guy walked down the street and shot this woman by mistake and through carelessness would he get hard time?

He'd get a certificate of proficiency

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Guns can be licensed right? If the same guy walked down the street and shot this woman by mistake and through carelessness would he get hard time?

I've said this many times before; the misuse of any other licensed article resulting in serious injury or death would attract permanent revocation of that licence. Drivers should not get this special exemption they seem to have.

 

[growingvegetables]

That'll teach him - get a different lawyer, and claim he thought it was a sack of potatoes falling from the sky. Then he'd have been found innocent.

 

[Milkfloat]

Guns can be licensed right? If the same guy walked down the street and shot this woman by mistake and through carelessness would he get hard time?

Not neccesarily, but he could forget about owning a gun ever again. He could also lose his licence for some very minor reasons.

 

[Lonestar]

Detective Sergeant Cheryl Frost of the Met's roads and transport policing command said Olafusi's "reckless" driving was a "stark reminder of the dangers and consequences of using a mobile phone whilst behind the wheel".

Yeah a stark firking reminder but it wont stop drivers continually doing this so long as the sentences take the p155.

 

[MontyVeda]

Is prison over-crowding the reason a jail sentence isn't given in cases like this?

 

[Welsh wheels]

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crim...ted-on-mobile-phone-spared-jail-a3519751.html

I don't know what to say- using phone, causes serious injury and fails to stop and still not given. a custodial sentence...

The only way we will ever get anywhere if we can change people's attitudes towards cyclists and if people learn to be more patient. I don't even bother to react to bad driving anymore because it happens so often.