glenn forger
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Daily Hell link, soz:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ashed-bicycle-60mph-road-eating-sandwich.html
Still daylight, clear road. The jury thinking "There but for the Grace of God", but there's this indistinction between what's careless and what's dangerous since, clearly, smashing into a cyclist from behind is dangerous. Forgetting your front door key is careless.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ashed-bicycle-60mph-road-eating-sandwich.html
A lock-keeper has been spared jail despite killing a fireman when he crashed into the back of his bicycle while eating a sandwich.
Paul Brown, 30, failed to see Joseph Wilkins, 39, as he drove along the country road between Appleton and Eaton, Oxfordshire.
Mr Wilkins was thrown from his bike and landed on a grass verge while on a ride with friend Philip Forbes at 9.10pm on May 24 last year.
Brown broke down in tears as Mr Recorder Andrew Burrows QC said that Mr Wilkins had two children who had been left fatherless.
He said: 'He was killed instantly when the Ford Focus driven by you from the direction of Appleton hit him from behind on a straight section of Eaton Road.
'He leaves behind Nicci Saunders, his partner of seven years, and the rest of the family and close friends.
'She has known him since she was five years old and they have two daughters aged two and five years.
'Nicci Saunders attended each day of the trial for causing death by dangerous driving and I would like to take this opportunity to extent the sympathy of the court to her and the family for the loss.'
Brown was cleared by a jury of causing death by dangerous driving but admitted the lesser charge of causing death by careless driving.
During the trial the court heard that Brown, who looks after several locks along the River Thames in Oxfordshire, had been eating a sandwich shortly before the crash.
However, Mr Recorder Burrows told the court that although he had been holding the sandwich, Brown had his eyes on the road ahead of him and had not been distracted by a mobile telephone or radio as he drove between 55 and 60mph.
'We're dealing with facts significantly below dangerous driving,' said Mr Recorder Burrows. You simply failed to see Joseph Wilkins. One might describe it as momentary inattention.
Still daylight, clear road. The jury thinking "There but for the Grace of God", but there's this indistinction between what's careless and what's dangerous since, clearly, smashing into a cyclist from behind is dangerous. Forgetting your front door key is careless.