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8 comments
Like Mark Appleton says, we don't know the details of the case and if we did and commented on the evidence we could face prison for subjudice.
However, there was a case where a driver was charged with the death of a cyclist in Coventry as he drove onto the pavement to hit him (from memory). Obviously in that case witnesses must have come forward.
Note to road.cc - can you disable comments on contentious articles like this?
I have money on the CPS getting cold getting cold feet and reducing the charge
Why does it take so long? April 9th last year adjourned until feb 25th! The incident is hardly going to be fresh in any possible witnesses memory.
"Death by careless driving" seems quite a difficult charge to get to stick. It isn't a common sense thing. There seem to be legal niceties to "Death by careless driving" that can quite easily reduce it to a lesser charge.
So while you or I might feel that she was driving and she must have been at least a little careless to kill someone, this is not how it works in law.
Err, we really need to wait for this trial to take place before getting too far into the rights and wrongs of the case. What we are trying to do here at road.cc is bring these cases to a wider audience in order to cast a spotlight on prosecuting and sentencing patterns and procedures.
Our contention is that there is insufficient deterrence provided by the judiciary to drivers who have not yet caught up with the fact that they now share the roads with LOTS of cyclists and should drive accordingly.
We also feel that there is too great a tendency for prosecutors to go with 'careless' rather than 'dangerous' charges, so in general KK we agree that poor driving which results in death is self-evidently dangerous, but as per Stato's post, at the moment we don't know the full details of this case
Jeez how the hell is she not guilty of careless driving? 9 times out of 10 it's the driver's fault.
Well obviously we dont know the specifics of the case but it could be she is not guilty of death by dangerous driving as the rider was struck by other vehicles after the initial incident. She might not even be guilty of dangerous driving, afteral she could be that 1-of-10?
Because she is innocent until proven guilty.