Accidents happen, its fact of life , and lives are ripped apart through tragedy.
Anyone who drives and says they have never lost concentration for a split second in years of driving are liars.
I don't expect anyone has, or would, say that.
This is what gives rise to juries dealing with motoring offences where someone is killed or injured to have the mindset of "There but for the grace of God..." and lend more weight to the accused's predicament than to his responsibility to be fully in control at all times.
People think a few months ban is nothing, that the driver is a callus, non caring individual, and goes on with life without a care in most cases is very wrong, in the most they normal folk who go through life ripped apart by what they have done, and in several cases ended there own lives as they cannot live with what happened.
Every case is different and "string em up" does not apply to ever death on the road.
There was most probably a trial to establish what happened in detail, and this has been condensed into a few lines in a paper.
We all make mistakes but we have to accept that even a small one, whilst in charge of a motor vehicle, can have serious consequences and that should have serious repercussions, not be viewed with a shrug while saying something like, "Crikey, I've done that myself, luckily I didn't hit anyone." The same approach isn't used with operators of any other dangerous machine or device, only with cars.
Driving a car is seen as a lifestyle thing, a social entitlement even, sold on the [false] basis of freedom, fun, convenience, looking cool and a lot of other nice fluffy things to the complete exclusion of responsibility.
It's too easy to obtain a licence and too difficult to lose one. That's a situation that ought to be reversed.
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