So it is OK to faint while driving .....

[BentMikey]

That's my thought too - that there might easily be a time mismatch and that she was actually on the phone whilst driving.

 

[Campfire]

This happened in my home town, in an area which I cycle in regularly. Since it happened I have always avoided that roundabout and cycled up the road on the footpath, it's a wide one. If anyone stops me I will remind them of this 'accident'.

I agree with most people that a full investigation about the fainting should take place and her licence should be taken from her, pending the results. What would happen if they then found her fit to drive with no 'fainting' problems, could the case be recalled?

I was told that this person had the type of law firm that footballers get when they don't want to lose their licence, as she had the means to do so.

Sleeping at night? No, I doubt if she will have trouble doing so, as anyone who would go to such lengths to avoid being punished for killing someone won't have any conscience.

It's funny that the 'fainting' attack came just after the phone call!

If she is genuinely found to have a medical problem, then that is fair enough, none of us know if we are likely to suffer from any sort of attack whilst driving.

 

[Crankarm]

This happened in my home town, in an area which I cycle in regularly. Since it happened I have always avoided that roundabout and cycled up the road on the footpath, it's a wide one. If anyone stops me I will remind them of this 'accident'.

I agree with most people that a full investigation about the fainting should take place and her licence should be taken from her, pending the results. What would happen if they then found her fit to drive with no 'fainting' problems, could the case be recalled?

I was told that this person had the type of law firm that footballers get when they don't want to lose their licence, as she had the means to do so.

Sleeping at night? No, I doubt if she will have trouble doing so, as anyone who would go to such lengths to avoid being punished for killing someone won't have any conscience.

It's funny that the 'fainting' attack came just after the phone call!

If she is genuinely found to have a medical problem, then that is fair enough, none of us know if we are likely to suffer from any sort of attack whilst driving.

++1.

 

[CopperBrompton]

Originally Posted by Ben Lovejoy
Why? There is zero evidence that she was driving at the time she made the phone call.
That's not entirely true.

It is in fact entirely true.

We have two bits of evidence that with the best possible interpretation say she was on the phone a couple of minutes before

Yes, as I said, I would typically be driving 10-30 seconds after ending a call. Two minutes was plenty of time for her to have pulled away and be driving down the road.

 

[Crankarm]

It is in fact entirely true.


Yes, as I said, I would typically be driving 10-30 seconds after ending a call. Two minutes was plenty of time for her to have pulled away and be driving down the road.

Ok, so expanding on your assertions, where is her evidence that she stopped and where is the lay-by or similar such parking area that she stopped in to make the call on her route that would match the time scales? I suspect this would have formed part of the evidence had she done so. There may have possibly been witnesses that saw the vehicle stopped and her inside with her mobile glued to her ear.

 

[fossyant]

That's my thought too - that there might easily be a time mismatch and that she was actually on the phone whilst driving.

Only she knows, and I hope it plays on her conscience for the rest of her life if she did lie.

 

[Crankarm]

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ...........

 

[CopperBrompton]

Ok, so expanding on your assertions, where is her evidence that she stopped and where is the lay-by or similar such parking area that she stopped in to make the call on her route that would match the time scales? I suspect this would have formed part of the evidence had she done so.

No, that would form part of the evidence only in some country where defendants are required to prove their innocence.

 

[CopperBrompton]

Ok, so expanding on your assertions, where is her evidence that she stopped and where is the lay-by or similar such parking area that she stopped in to make the call on her route that would match the time scales? I suspect this would have formed part of the evidence had she done so.

No, that would form part of the evidence only in some country where defendants are required to prove their innocence.