Police release distressing video after drug driver crashes at 60mph into child cycling in bike lane

It's still up on FB - https://fb.watch/7q3Ckb_sJ9/

Maybe FB has just turned off the ability for other websites to embed the content. Wobbly walking at 0:45 and 'simple accident' at 3:05. Can't watch the rest again .

Back again for me. Might have been a facebook or page loading error. 

I sincerely hope Noah recovers well and still wants to ride a bike.

Well he did seem happy with the new one  in the second video. However it will depend on the parents wants I expect for the next few years. The father must have been (uneccesarily) blaming himself probably more then the driver for deciding to cycle to the park rather then do the normal driving.

AlsoSomniloquism posted that the Northen Echo said it was the girl friend's car.

Don't most people rent their car nowadays ?

The police in the UK now have testing kits so they can check for the use of drugs at the roadside, along with testing for alcohol use. It's surprising how many people do smoke cannabis while driving her in London. I've been working at home since the pandemic started but when I was commuting to the office on my motorbike or by bicycle and train, I'd usually come across at least one person/day smoking cannabis at the wheel. One time I remember filtering through traffic on the South Circular and going past a really knackered old van. The two guys in the front were smoking a huge spliff so when I passed a cop car just a bit ahead, I stopped, knocked on the window and said if they wanted to make an easy bust they could pull over the van just a short distance behind them.

Grass !

I can't help but think that the cocaine and ketamine contributed a lot more to the insane driving than the cannabis

The video of him leaving the supermarket shows he could barely stand up. 

Probably, but cannabis does delay reaction times considerably. I read a report recently and I'll post a link if I can find it again. Basically it says that since the use of cannabis was legalised in some US states like Colorado and California (I forget the rest), there has been a notabl increase in the number of road crashes. And driving under the influence of cannabis has been that extra factor. The report also says that while people who are under the influence of cannabis (alone) typically drive slower, but are distracted and respond slowly.

while people who are under the influence of cannabis (alone) typically drive slower, but are distracted and respond slowly

Too right! A son of a famous Bob Marley band member was on the radio this morning and the effects of a lifetime of ganja were only too obvious- an age between words while the few remaining neurones send through single bits of information impossibly slowly, like an old pulse dialling telephone exchange. Once you have dissolved your brain away, it doesn't come back! Get the doped up zombies off the roads!

There was a story in one of the tabloids today, a "terrible tragedy" where the three people in a car had all died in hospital following an "accident" . 

The three had spent the evening meeting friends at a local pub.

The "accident" involved driving at 85mph, a roundabout, losing control of the vehicle, and the driver testing positive for cannabis and twice the alcohol limit.

But terrible "accident", yeah...

OldRidgeback wrote:

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 It's surprising how many people do smoke cannabis while driving her in London.  ..... 

And if her indoors finds out about her in London I'm in big trouble.

So you like to see mangled kids then?

It does the job just listening to the desperation of (I'm assuming) a seriously injured father as well trying to do what he can in shock. If that doesn't hit you then that says more for your personality then it does on the effectiveness of the video. 

He seemed to be happy enough in the secondary follow up video. 

That was pretty harrowing footage. I'm surprised anyone would focus on the misspelling of Teesside after that... 

I can only assume swldxer didn't watch the video first, as I couldn't focus on anything for a while after, my eyes were a bit blurry  

Nope it is Swixy. The article could mention a car being driven badly and crushing 20 babies and a 21st baby killed as the wing mirror fell off and hit it,  and he would state "It's a DOOR mirror!". 

Surprised your earlier error did not get the caps treatment.

There needs to be harsher punishments for people who drive when banned or get another ban. In fact once banned that should be it, if you commit another offence than results in a ban, then it should be a lifetime ban.

Surprised your earlier error did not get the caps treatment.

 Maybe Teaseside  (  ) is the bigger offence. 

And totally agree with you on the second sentence. 

With me it would be:-

Instant Life ban if losing it due to death by ***** driving offences. 
Two Insta bans that doesn't result in death (drinks / drugs, very excessive speeding insta one)= life ban
*Two bans for points totting = Life ban

And the mandatory 10 year retests should include full medical including blood tests.

*I was thinking three stikes for this one but then when I was thinking on the points totting, it would usually mean 12 points twice which when you work it out is lots of "minor" offences so not learning any sort of lesson so can be the same as the drug/drinks one. 

hirsute wrote:

Surprised your earlier error did not get the caps treatment.

There needs to be harsher punishments for people who drive when banned or get another ban. In fact once banned that should be it, if you commit another offence than results in a ban, then it should be a lifetime ban.

These type of people will not be put off driving by a mere ban. Custodial sentencing is the only way to stop them driving.

Sure but you can't lock them up for life though.

As above, driving whilst banned -> instant in prison for the length of ban

Tech solutions to stop banned people from driving - facial recognition checks to licence ?

Better police presence and enforcement on the roads