sleaterkinney
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What do you mean, should not have been there?.
The big problem with the careless driving charge is that the cps and defendant will go for it knowing it's just a slap on the wrist.
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The big problem with the careless driving charge is that the cps and defendant will go for it knowing it's just a slap on the wrist.
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Oh dear, I was being facetious.
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Sports car crashes along residential Ipswich road
A resident says a red sports car was badly damaged while another vehicle ended up on its side.
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Plastic Paddy
I’ve been on a motorway when that’s happened. I saw a lot of cars in front of me sharply pulling left and right. I thought there must be a person or stopped car in the road so slowed right down in the inside lane and a blue Fiesta came pootling past in the middle. Turned out to be an old girl who got a bit confused. Fuck knows how she managed it though because it was a good way down from the junction which was roundabout fed with traffic lights.
Bahnhof Strasse
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Katie Price will be up in front of the mags again tomorrow, this time for speeding whilst on her 6th driving ban.
What does it take for prison to kick in? And lifetime bans from driving?
What does it take for prison to kick in? And lifetime bans from driving?
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Oh dear, I have lost my licence and lost my my job for doing 36 in a 30 limit says derby taxi driver, conveniently ignoring the fact he now has just 15 points.
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Driver handed huge fine and disqualification from driving after missing letters in post
A TAXI driver from Derby has lost his driving licence and livelihood after he was caught driving 36mph in a 30mph limit and missed letters from court.
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marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
fair comment, it's how we are taught to drive here tbf
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
You need to take a more aggressive stance in London traffic if you want to make headway. My own examiner told me that.
sleaterkinney
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Shocker, this one. Sentence is a joke, disqualified for a year?
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Unlicensed driver lied and said he hit a deer when actually he killed a teenager
The hit-and-run killed Oscar Seaman, 17, who was cycling home.
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Bahnhof Strasse
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Killing with no licence or insurance should be enough for hefty custodial, driving like that makes crashes almost inevitable. Fucking joke.
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Plastic Paddy
20 years
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Seems puzzling that it isn't.
BigTom
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8 weeks in prison (edit: nope, misread, suspended sentence), 1 year no driving, what a joke. Wasn't licenced anyway so why would anyone think that ban would matter.
Should be viewed as manslaughter with the same range of sentencing, and in this case should have been at the top of the range since they drove off and lied to the police. 20 years with life imo. No easy parole for someone who does something like this. Laws need changing and the CPS needs to charge people properly and follow it through in court, not go for the easy charge which sets a precedent.
Should be viewed as manslaughter with the same range of sentencing, and in this case should have been at the top of the range since they drove off and lied to the police. 20 years with life imo. No easy parole for someone who does something like this. Laws need changing and the CPS needs to charge people properly and follow it through in court, not go for the easy charge which sets a precedent.
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marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
This is true , I notice it more when I drive outside London
sleaterkinney
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He didn’t go to prison.
BigTom
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oh I missed it got changed to a suspended sentence. fucking shocking, or it would be if we hadn't seen so many similar things before.
nick
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There are even nuances within townThis is true , I notice it more when I drive outside London
My driving gently adapts from full on “no quarter given ” when I leave Sarf London to “no sir/madam after you” when on suburban streets in Rayners Lane.
It is a lot more genteel in NW london I find
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I think it depends on how busy the roads are and what the weather is like. If the roads are really busy and traffic really slow, drivers tend to be a lot more assertive.
If it is a hot, sunny day drivers tend to be a lot more chilled.
sleaterkinney
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Aggressive not assertive. I learned to drive in London and it's striking (especially abroad) when you see you don't have to drive like a dickhead.
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Plastic Paddy
Struggling to think of any country where the general driving standards are less dick-headed than London's. Certainly none of Europe except perhaps Scandinavia.
nick
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Different rather than dick-headed (maybe) - but I have noticed that in Malaysia there is a great love of high speed tailgating. They must have the reaction times of a ninja.
Whereas in Aus (QLD at least) breaking the speed limit seems to have the same level of social acceptability as drink driving
sleaterkinney
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Perhaps because you are looking at it through the eyes of a London driver. I'm not talking about general levels of driving skill, just the level of aggression.
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Everyone on the move in London acts in an aggresive manner. Drivers, bus drivers, transport drivers, bikers, delivery bikes, cyclists, delivery cyclists, e-scooter riders, and pedestrians. Not literally everyone, but a lot of them from every form of transportation in existence.
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Plastic Paddy
You need to try Italy and Greece!
sleaterkinney
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Yeah, the roads are nothing compared to the tube.
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