Re: Tragic Accident

Hi

Thanks for that Judd.

It puts a different scenario on things.

I know it well.

I was brought up in Mountfield Road, and the first house I owned was in Rectory Drive.

Fifty years ago it could have been me.

Re: Tragic Accident

I quite agree with you. As I see it the car showed far more damage than would be expected in a lower speed collision. We have I am sure, all seen some of the idiotic driving on the roads today, bad driving is almost an everyday occurrence. In my 55 years of accident-free driving I have seen some appalling driving, fortunately mostly without consequences. Without police presence though, reckless driving goes unnoticed for the most part, those who then get away with it continue until a tragedy like this happens. How often have many of us said to ourselves, when an incident occurs on the road, something like "the police are never around when this kind of thing happens".

The CPS and police, although using the law to prosecute offenders are often restricted by those same laws, as in this case it seems. With regard to those who kill others by their deliberate reckless driving, I believe they should be tried under other laws pertaining to using a weapon rather than it being a driving offence. Sentences then might reflect the seriousness of what happens, rather than being too light or as in this case it seems, the offender 'got away with it' on a technicality.

There are so many instances of bad or reckless driving, resulting in a person being killed, where the offender just seems to receive a very short sentence considering a life has been taken. This really does need to be looked at and penalties increased I believe.

Re: Tragic Accident

The driver experienced a medical incident. That will have been confirmed especially as a result of the seriousness of what has happened.

Precise details have not been released but it is more than possible the driver experienced a transient ischemic attack (TIA) one of many consequences can be a total disassociation from reality, a blank out. Not a black out, a blank out.

If such a blank out happened while a person was driving on a hazardous part of a road then the outcome will not be good.

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There are indeed people who have no empathy towards others, it is a diagnosable state, but there are others who appear to be unempathetic but who actually have had to develop a "thick skin" because of various they have experienced over a number of years.

Re: Tragic Accident

But the carnage would have been minimised with a good chance of the young girl surviving if the car wasn't speeding as reported by several witnesses.

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Very true but if the driver had blanked out then it could well have happened while the driver was applying the accelerator at the time the TIA kicked in.

With a TIA blank out the effect is like turning a switch. Instant freezing, and total dissociation.