SilverBadge wrote:Be nice if they didn't get the driver and cyclist names confused in the captions . . . .RichardPH wrote:Have some got their blinkers on maybe?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -down.html
My thoughts too..
SilverBadge wrote:Be nice if they didn't get the driver and cyclist names confused in the captions . . . .RichardPH wrote:Have some got their blinkers on maybe?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -down.html
Cunobelin wrote:Young Blonde and Attractive......... call me cynical?
RichardPH wrote:Have some got their blinkers on maybe?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -down.html
thelawnet wrote:RichardPH wrote:Have some got their blinkers on maybe?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -down.html
Don't really see that this is comparable. In that case the guy smashed a bus into a cyclist, at considerable speed, which the whole world has watched on camera, and death was a likely outcome.
In this horse case there is no video footage, evidently the van driver reversed towards the horse, but whether there was any contact is not really clear.
You just have to compare the outcomes:
'broken leg and fractured wrist '
'two weeks in hospital and had grueling operations to repair his left knee and wrist following the incident.'
'Doctors inserted a 25cm metal plate in his left leg and bolted the bones in his left wrist together.'
convicted of dangerous driving and GBH
with
"bruising to [the horse's] fetlock"
and
"sore arm, shoulders and neck, caused by the force with which she had to hold on to the horse."
convicted of dangerous driving only.
I don't think you can compare what sounds like a very minor sort of injury to the horse, and none to the rider, with a series of operations and a 25cm metal plate, and unquestionable video evidence with the word of the victim only.
The sentencing is clearly not balanced. If the horse road rager got 10 months in prison with no real damage done, how can it be that for causing very serious injuries you only get 17 months? The DD in the bus case is much worse, and then you've got GBH on top of that.
RichardPH wrote:Simple.
The bus driver and the cyclist had an 'altercation' prior to the incident in the video, and the cyclist was continuing to attempt to hold up the bus by riding further across the carriageway in front of it, forcing the driver to move more and more towards the central barrier, he was playing with fire and he got burnt frankly, a lesson in picking your fights.
Contrasting this, the attack on the girl on the horse was unprovoked. The horse was bruised, this backs up the girls story, I wasn't entirely joking in an earlier post saying that the horse was a witness because it quite evidently was.
The bus driver was more heavily penalised both in length and nature of sentence and deservedly so, but to pretend the cyclist was a totally innocent party is 'blinkered'.