Upsetting footage.
Once again killing someone with a vehicle results in the drunken response of:-
'its ok I'll only get 2 or 3 years' - life's cheap when you're driving.
2nd December
If anyone is interested
https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/crime/hayling-island-cyclist-with-cancer-beaten-by-bmw-driver-for-no-reason-says-i-could-have-been-killed-as-judge-rips-into-attacker-3899691
I'm waiting for one particular sentencing to drop.
Bloke from Hayling Island got out of his car and beat the snot out of a cycling 70 year old cancer sufferer.
When asked why he did it he told the police 'it doesn't matter I'll just get points, a fine, and a bit of community service'.
The...
The problem with this thread is that it can easily turn into a thrice daily bounce.
Yesterday could easily have been the uninsured fella from Rotherham who killed a pensioner, while probably drunk and perverted the course of justice (hence probably) and only got 2 years.
But what's the point...
Me neither, as a driver, and I certainly wouldn't do it on unfamiliar roads.
If anything I see it more as another tool to say 'im not the enemy here'.
My commute is glorious for all but 3 of the last 4 miles, which contains three long s-bends, almost consecutively.
If I wasn't aware of...
It's all in the eyes - they're your safety blanket, gotta make eye contact.
I try and do everything I can to help drivers, warn of oncoming traffic, wave them through on bends, I have even devised an elaborate system of telling a lorry/bus driver I'm going to slow down and cut into the left...
The downside of my Twitter is it's full of that.
I could have tripled downed on this story today, typified by another 5 years handled down in Swansea yesterday.
An off duty police officer killed because of Facebook - f**king Facebook and Instagram.
Cos it's 4 tonnes of metal that can go 0-60 in under 10 seconds, topping out at 120+mph with that absolute scumbag behind the wheel, probably on his own, completely safe as he's surrounded by airbags.
I know I (we) should be immune to the regularity of this, but somehow I still convince myself...
https://www.norfolk.police.uk/news/latest-news/drink-driver-jailed-after-fatal-collision-stalham
He was in that state behind the wheel of one of these:-
At least the judge saw it for what it was and he got 8 years.
I appreciate this isn't going to help my campaign to get us all, who can...