Re: Cyclist killers in local paper.


"Steven" <stevenj3371@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>What gets my goat is the comment, "Humberside chief crown prosecutor Nigel
>>Cowgill said the death was an "appalling" accident." There is nothing
>>'accidental' about being stuck from behind by two twunts using city
>>streets
>>as a race track, and one driver was already disqualified from driving and
>>the other hadn't even passed his test.
>
> Actually, there is.
>
> They did not set out to hit the cyclist, nor intend to do so, so it was an
> accident.
>
> The law, however, does not allow someone to escape culpability merely
> because
> something is an accident.
>

Thank you. I do wish people would stop trying to change the language.

While I think the prison sentences are appropriate. I think it is time we
introduced lifetime driving bans.


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