Re: Cyclist killers in local paper.

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 11:58:04 +0100, "wafflycat"
<waffles*A*T*v21net*D*O*T*co*D*O*T*uk> wrote:

>
>"Simon Mason" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:lwCdnUgIjMF92HbfSa8jmw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Story of the two men jailed for killing a local cyclist:
>>
>> http://qurl.net/iz
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>> --
>> Simon Mason
>> http://www.simonmason.karoo.net
>>
>
>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.

.

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