Can't think of anything to say
A perfect description, unbelievable
The judge gave him credit for his LATE guilty plea!
1. There should be no credit for pleading guilty. If you are guilty, then it should just be a given!
2. The guilty plea was late... so emotions / time / money had already been spent whilst he fannied about!
Incredible!
And looking at his total disregard for others will probably be driving with no licence when he comes out.
+1 on his description!
having been banned for drink driving twice shouldn't we be asking ourselves if the guy should have ever been aloud back on the road. drink
driving once can be put down to poor judgement twice shows a blatant disregard for the lives of others. he deserves to go to jail it wont bring back
those who have lost their lives but maybe it will make him see the error of his ways.
also not keen on the doom bringers that wrote that article. the closing speed would have been 140mph but the actual impact speed would be 70mph. two
cars both travelling at 70mph of equal mass colliding would be no different to one car travelling at 70mph hitting a solid brick wall. makes you
think just how lethal a head on is even at legal speed limits.
He should be used for medical testing.
what a great description.
when they give people jail time and a driving ban do they run concurrently? or does the driving ban start once you get released? seems pointless to give a driving ban to someone who is inside. but equally pointless because that kind of scumbag will simply drive without a licence anyway.
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Originally posted by ashg
also not keen on the doom bringers that wrote that article. the closing speed would have been 140mph but the actual impact speed would be 70mph. two cars both travelling at 70mph of equal mass colliding would be no different to one car travelling at 70mph hitting a solid brick wall. makes you think just how lethal a head on is even at legal speed limits.
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Originally posted by 40inches
Can't think of anything to say
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Originally posted by ashg
also not keen on the doom bringers that wrote that article. the closing speed would have been 140mph but the actual impact speed would be 70mph. two cars both travelling at 70mph of equal mass colliding would be no different to one car travelling at 70mph hitting a solid brick wall. makes you think just how lethal a head on is even at legal speed limits.
Chop his hands off, that will slow him down from driving :-)
Infact just chop his head off and do society a big favour
Indeed, it's interesting to look at the total energy change in the crash, the total energy in two cars at ~78mph head on are approximately equal to one at 110 into a solid object.
in a life time of driving three times within the last 10 years I have encountered cars going the wrong way either on slip roads or a dual carriageway. All of my near misses were on the same road a the East Kilbride Expressway but in a all three cases it was old fools ignoring or just not seeing road signs, this guy should be handcuffed to a radiator for life !
What a Tosser...
Quote from BBC:
Judge Wassall said Rushbrook's judgement must have been impaired by tiredness, as he had been to work before embarking on a long journey, or the
drug ketamine, a horse tranquiliser the defendant had admitted taking.
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Tired my Ar*e!!! He was on Drugs, and shouldnt have been driving in the first place.
What sort of person take HORSE Tranquilisers?
8 years isn't enough for taking a life when on drugs.
He should be handcuffed to the centre lane of the M1, not to a radiator!
<Shakes head in disbelief at the stupidity of people who take drugs, let alone take them and then drive>
Bring back the death sentence for people like this. Eye for an EYE etc.
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Originally posted by britishtrident
in a life time of driving three times within the last 10 years I have encountered cars going the wrong way either on slip roads or a dual carriageway. All of my near misses were on the same road a the East Kilbride Expressway but in a all three cases it was old fools ignoring or just not seeing road signs, this guy should be handcuffed to a radiator for life !
I have to say though that theres a number of complications to this.
There's now so many signs on the road that people EXPECT there to be signs saying you can't do something. There's so many driver aids
that people relax more than they should.
I will admit to having almost driven the wrong way up a slip road in Scotland because there were no signs at all on the roundabout other than the
direction arrows and the design of the roundabout was such that the off ramp met the roundabout at 90 degrees and appeared to be an on-ramp.
Fortunately I was switched on enough to realise where the road was in relation to the off-ramp (which was up and round a bend a bit so hard to see)
but you can imagine many people missing this fact fairly easily.
We rely too heavily on signs, we rely too heavily on driver aids and there's no research that I know of about the negative effects of
people's reactions to increasing automation and over-signing, except in aircraft. In aircraft they've found that with the increasing
computer control pilots are often left baffled by simple control issues and spend an age pulling back on teh stick when the plane is stalling despite
being able to see out of the window that they're likely to be stalling.
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Originally posted by swanny
when they give people jail time and a driving ban do they run concurrently? or does the driving ban start once you get released? seems pointless to give a driving ban to someone who is inside. but equally pointless because that kind of scumbag will simply drive without a licence anyway.
If the report is correct , he did a u turn because he had missed the turn of for a garage, i dont think the road signs had much to do with it.
after an incident like this the guy should never be allowed out of prison let alone back on the roads
[Edited on 7/3/12 by dlatch]
[Edited on 7/3/12 by dlatch]
How can you suggest that road signs could contribute to this accident - its a dual carriageway with a central reservation.
.........makes you wonder if the judge was having a snooze before making his comments and it's a shame that we let these people plea bargain by
lowering the sentence because his brief tells him to show remorse and to plead guilty
Hope his cellmate is a gorilla who has lost someone close because of an ar5sholes like this!
Steve
well if the reporting about what the judge said is half as accurate as the rest of the article then we should all be worried.
regardless of the substandard reporting its still a sad thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFFXq2zw4Bc&feature=share
not funny
I saw that last week, and that guy must be on something.
I would imagine the talk of 'forgetting being on a dual carriageway' is a BS excuse and the reals situation being he thought he could get
away with driving back to the garage on the wrong side of the road. None of it makes much sense to me though at the moment, it doesn't say what
time this happened at and the crash speed of 130-140 Mph doesn't make any sense either as surely at least on of them would have thought to slow
down. Obviously the most confussing thing is how did someone get a lisense after being busted for drink driving twice?
what a w****r