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A bus was all over the place Friday morning. kept crossing the middle lines, made me wonder if the driver was still drunk from the night before.
 
Jail for cocaine driver who killed Newport grandmother - BBC News

A father-of-two has been jailed for eight years and eight months for killing a grandmother while sniffing cocaine at the wheel of his van.

Ryan Reardon, 34, hit seven other vehicles in his van in Newport before crashing into 70-year-old Christine Rowe's car head-on, killing her and seriously injuring her husband Brian.

Cardiff Crown Court heard he was speeding on the wrong side of the road.

Reardon, from Blackwood in Caerphilly, ran off but police caught him that day.

He was more than six times over the legal drug-drive limit when he jumped red lights and barged through other cars at about 19:00 BST on 5 June near Beechwood Park in bad weather conditions, the court heard.

Reardon, a managing director of an air conditioning company, was driving at 59mph in a 30mph zone.

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Also banned for 14 years - jail sentence seems ok, think that's similar to alot of murder sentences but why no lifetime driving ban, surel he has shown he can never be trusted behind the wheel?
 
Six times the legal drug-drive limit? So exactly how much gear can you take and remain legal then?

The New Drug Driving law Limits - Forster Dean

The specified limits “per litre of blood” for all substances to be included in the new offence are as follows:
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  • Cocaine 10
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or from Release:

Benzoylecgonine (BZE)

Limit: 50mcg/l

  • This is the main metabolite of cocaine and what is tested for when analysing for cocaine
  • Following a dose of 100 mg cocaine (snorted) the window of detection is reported to be up to approximately 30 hours, and for chronic users at least 5 days
  • However, after a single dose only likely to be detectable for 3-12 hours, BUT highly unlikely to be completely clear after just 3 hours and likely still ‘under the influence’ at that stage
Drug Driving
 
Driving on the right hand side of the road was a pretty basic error.
They didn't start off on the wrong side of the road. Either (or both) they understeered out of their lane because they were going too fast and couldn't physically make it, or once things got difficult, they focused on the horses and went where they were looking, which is what target fixation is.
 
That report does not even mention points and a ban, jsut community service. Causing death while at the wheel of a car is surely the equivelent of manslaughter?
It is, unfortunately, an old old arguement which according to reports was going attract stiffer sentences.
 
That report does not even mention points and a ban, jsut community service. Causing death while at the wheel of a car is surely the equivelent of manslaughter?
It is, unfortunately, an old old arguement which according to reports was going attract stiffer sentences.

Shit happens, crashes happen, nearly always someone is at fault but often the level of fault is minor even if the consequences are major.

Once you get people racing each other 50% above the speed limit, the culpability for when it goes wrong is so much higher and should attract a harsh penalty. Not community service, ffs.
 
Are there not exemptions from law for Surrey mothers who have already dropped the kids at the child minder and will spend the rest of the day in Costa complaining about how hard their life is?
 
Are there not exemptions from law for Surrey mothers who have already dropped the kids at the child minder and will spend the rest of the day in Costa complaining about how hard their life is?

Of course there are, after all she's only holding up a bus, so a bunch of proles heading for the proley part of town, Eashing. They can wait, it's not like they can't watch Jeremy Kyle on catch-up.
 
Does she drive the Audi as well but says an SUV is not ethical :confused:
I am wrestling with the notion of getting the Epace when it's launched at the end of the year - thats only a tiny SUV.
 
Are there not exemptions from law for Surrey mothers who have already dropped the kids at the child minder and will spend the rest of the day in Costa complaining about how hard their life is?

Plus it's not as if there's any car parks in Godalming, these circled are fucking miles away, may as well be on the moon...

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Does she drive the Audi as well but says an SUV is not ethical :confused:
I am wrestling with the notion of getting the Epace when it's launched at the end of the year - thats only a tiny SUV.

She drives it a lot more than I do, the car was her choice as she feels we should be able to take the kids with us when we go out, which is just daft.
 
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