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Well i really dont know what to say
Paul TigerB6 - 12/3/09 at 06:09 PM

Might start with "one rule for us........" though!!!

linky

Hellfire - 12/3/09 at 06:17 PM

Sending and receiving text messages while driving in the dark along a 17-mile stretch of the motorway is wrong. Simple as that. He was punished for doing so.

"Lady Justice Hallett said there was "little or nothing" Lord Ahmed could have done to avoid the collision.

She said he had never been accused of, or admitted, causing death by dangerous driving."

So what is wrong with letting him out?

Phil

oldtimer - 12/3/09 at 08:58 PM

I think what is wrong is that he obviously thinks it unnecessary to look at the road for long periods of time. This could be a factor in someones death. I also heard he is having his criminal record removed, or some such thing?!...

mr henderson - 12/3/09 at 09:14 PM

I'll bet he wishes he hadn't done it. A couple of weeks porridge and a ship load of bad publicity is probably enough punishment, and the publicity will help to discurage others

John

flak monkey - 12/3/09 at 09:17 PM

Death by dangerous driving gets you 16days.

Speeding gets you 6 months... Clicky

Paul TigerB6 - 12/3/09 at 09:29 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Hellfire
Sending and receiving text messages while driving in the dark along a 17-mile stretch of the motorway is wrong. Simple as that. He was punished for doing so.

"Lady Justice Hallett said there was "little or nothing" Lord Ahmed could have done to avoid the collision.

She said he had never been accused of, or admitted, causing death by dangerous driving."

So what is wrong with letting him out?

Phil



To me - it stinks of the "us and them" thing - he's a peer with an expensive lawyer no doubt!! So he gets let out after 16 days while this guy is going to spend the next 3 months in prison!! Which was the more dangerous act?? Texting repeatedly on an unlit motorway and then not seeing an obstuction in your own lane or riding a bike around a gentle bend in a bit of rain?? I have driven on an unlit motorway and managed to easily see a lump of rubber off a truck in the 3rd lane and driven around it so dont see why he couldnt see a car (unless of course he was texting again - and deleted his half typed text before his phone was examined!!)

Paul TigerB6 - 12/3/09 at 09:32 PM

quote:
Originally posted by flak monkey
Death by dangerous driving gets you 16days.

Speeding gets you 6 months... Clicky


To be fair it was only dangerous driving for the labour toff too. Good lawyer made sure of that no doubt

omega 24 v6 - 12/3/09 at 09:39 PM

To be fair one got weeks for a fatality.
And one got months for what MAY have happened IF H
he had crashed.
STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN for more than one reason I'd say.

Paul TigerB6 - 12/3/09 at 09:46 PM

quote:
Originally posted by omega 24 v6
To be fair one got weeks for a fatality.


But thats what really annoys me as much as anything - he actually wasnt even convicted of any offence to do with the death - just the texting previously!! Somehow the police ended up investigating his phone records to find it out and i guess must have passed info onto the CPS with a view to "death by dangerous driving" but it was not proven. How easy would it have been for him to delete any half written text and so destroy any evidence!!

mr henderson - 12/3/09 at 09:49 PM

It just goes to show that parking in the outside lane is a very BAD idea. Staying with the car is even worse.