pwa wrote:reohn2 wrote:pwa wrote:I cannot understand why getting caught driving whilst banned does not incur an automatic custodial sentence which automatically increases in length for subsequent offences. That at least removes a danger for a while.
We the public have decided through the ballot box that we can't afford prisons or even an effective police force,and as Cunobelin points out the "there but for the grace of god" etc is prevelant in juries across the land.
The law and it's application stinks and will continue to stink until the nettle is firmly grasped
Actually I think the great majority of people find it hard to understand why disqualified drivers caught driving are not locked up. Even if it costs a bit more money to do it.
A local man was banned for a year for drink driving and I heard not one word of sympathy for him. If he had been seen driving during his ban he would have been shopped.
There was a case in Glasgow where a bin lorry driver passed out at the wheel and killed six people,he'd concealed his condition from his employer and his previous employer,he walked.
Sometime later whilst banned he was caught driving,he walked again
He's still walking and possible by now has his licence back and is driving......
There's dead people all over the land for want of decent policing and decent penalties,it continues to be the case,and I'm almost impotent to stop it.
If your banned driver was reported,unless there was very strong evidence to support the report ie; more than two witnesses,photo video evidence nothing would happen,I'm betting he wouldn't have even got a visit from the boys in blue,
Why?
Because there aren't enough off them to do the job they've been given,and even if he were brought to bookone simple clerical error by the police in the execution of their duty and a Mr slimey Loophole lawyer would get him off with it
Stuff's broken,no one's fixing it.