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Sentencing lethal drivers was Re: Richard Ellis
PeteB99:
You would think that if you drove your delivery van up onto the pavement to park it and in the process ran over and killed a four year old child who you knew was in the immediate vicinity you would be guilty of at least causing death by careless driving or at least guilty of something.
Apparently not >:(
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/delivery-driver-who-mounted-pavement-12782437
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-39356514
ian:
It's an odd world where people write to newspapers about the occasional bicycle on a pavement and demand something must be done, but it's a no-faulter when someone drives a loaded truck along a pavement and kills someone in the process.
Wycombewheeler:
--- Quote from: PeteB99 on 23 March, 2017, 06:35:46 pm ---You would think that if you drove your delivery van up onto the pavement to park it and in the process ran over and killed a four year old child who you knew was in the immediate vicinity you would be guilty of at least causing death by careless driving or at least guilty of something.
Apparently not >:(
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/delivery-driver-who-mounted-pavement-12782437
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-39356514
--- End quote ---
"However, he said unless Williams had “X-ray vision”, he could not have seen Esme through parked cars."#
I just despair that it is OK to drive a vehicle onto a pavement, where he admits he couldn't see if it was empty or not, you should expect people to be on the pavement, it should not come as a surprise.
In my view parking on the pavement should be banned everywhere, the entire practice is based on the belief of drivers that endangering pedestrians is less important than inconveniencing other drivers by being a possible traffic obstruction.
Gattopardo:
Surprised that we are not blaming the parent for not being in control of child.
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