531colin wrote: ↑20 Dec 2023, 5:18pm It seems that the courts have reminded Ms Williams that driving a car is a privilege which has to be earned.
I guess that’s not as “newsworthy” as the previous story.
I posted earlier that if the car which was rolled onto the pavement had held 3 black lads and a wrap of weed they would have been in handcuffs straight away.
TC knows (even I know) that would be the case if it were 3 white lads, and it’s to stop the lads sloping off or kicking the evidence down the drain.
I don’t like the message which is sent when somebody drives like a complete prat, avoids killing two people by pure luck, and just gets waved off to get on with their day.
And I see your point- having ridden my motorcycle like a complete prat and having killed myself in the process - I was not questioned until after I had come out of hospital (some two weeks later after I had written off my motorcycle and the transit van with which I collided). After my questioning it fell to the cps as to whether I would be charged with dangerous driving. The cps decided that as I had suffered life changing injuries (including losing the ability to drink alcohol) I'd suffered enough...
....from the point of reporting the above incident it would have been better if the police had added 'that they were currently investigating whether to bring 'dangerous driving' charges against the driver' that way the public perception would have understood that such driving clearly falls under the attention of the police and is not without further consequences.
Having watched the video a few times - I'm not sure if I saw any brake lights on the vehicle which did collide with the street lamp. If no one else saw them either, it might mean that the driver was completely unaware of what was happening (either through drink, drugs, or on set ofxa medical condition) the brake lights were faulty, or perhaps they had simply 'frozen' and couldn't react. Watch it yourself and see if you can spot and brake lights....
