Re: Woman driver texting on mobile kills cyclist jumping red light

On 2 Feb, 12:01, JNugent <not.tell...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Terry F. wrote:
As reported on TV news yesterday.
Who do your sympathies lie with?

If the reports are correct:

(a) car-driver doing 45 in a 30 and reading a text message whilst
driving through a traffic light junction at green,

(b) cyclist riding across the other way through a red light),

...my sympathies lie with absolutely neither of them. Some might even
argue that they both got (or are getting) what they asked for.

My only reservations are that "reading a text message" is something
the driver is unlikely to have admitted and is probably only being
inferred (perhaps from forensic evidence), and that the "45 through a
30 limit junction" is probably another inference (because I've never
seen a speed camera at a road junction). But perhaps there's good
evidence of either or both.

You have to look around a lot to find a summary of the mobile phone
evidence (virtually every report says she was texting at the time) but
The sequence began at 7.08.08 with a text message from Chris Coultas
to his estranged wife. Forty-seven seconds later she sent a text back.
The court heard Coultas then dialled her current boyfriend but no
message was recorded, either because she terminated it or there was no
connection, and then immediately phoned the emergency services.
http://www.thisissouthamptonfc.co.uk/misc/print.php?artid=20...

Are we to suppose that phoning her boyfriend was in reaction to the
accident before calling emergency services? For the purposes of
discussion it seems a LOT more likely to me that dialling her
boyfriend was what got terminated by the accident.

She should be banned for life and go to prison for a long time.
.

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