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Fri 15 Feb 2002 14:06
Road rage - ian (cape town)
From the Telegraph today, for those who haven't seen it.

What a tw*t!

A MOTORIST was starting a life sentence yesterday for murdering a pedestrian by mowing him down in a petty row over a broken wing mirror.
Dale Baysting, 21, sped on to a pavement and ploughed into the back of Robert McDowall, hurling him into the air and killing him.
The driver became "enraged" after his mirror was accidentally damaged when it clipped the victim's friend as Baysting reversed the wrong way down a one-way street.
He revved his "pride and joy" Vauxhall Cavalier before hurtling the wrong way up another one-way street to come up behind Mr McDowall and two friends.
He then sped away, leaving the unconscious Mr McDowall, 59, to die in the street from a severe head injury.
Baysting abandoned his car on a beach after smashing the windows before claiming it had been stolen. But he was arrested after his girlfriend and two other passengers in the car told police what had happened.
A jury at Lewes Crown Court convicted him of murder after a three-day trial in which he claimed that he only meant to scare the men.
Anthony Niblett, prosecuting, told how Baysting used his car as "a weapon" in the early hours of one Sunday last July in Bexhill, East Sussex.
Baysting had spent the previous evening drinking strong lager at a nightclub in Eastbourne before racing home at speeds of up to 120mph.
Sentencing, Judge Richard Brown told him: "In your drunken and angry state that night you deliberately took the life of Mr McDowall."
Baysting, of Hastings, admitted manslaughter.
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Fri 15 Feb 2002 14:12
Re: Road rage - Harold
Unbelievable.

Vauxhall Cavalier = "Pride and Joy"

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lax Archival Value.
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Fri 15 Feb 2002 14:43
Re: Road rage - Brian
Unbelievable.

Vauxhall Cavalier = "120 mph" four-up.

How much speedo error in that?
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Fri 15 Feb 2002 16:15
Re: Road rage - John S
Brian

Unfortunately, maybe not much:

2.0 Cav 123 miles/hr

2.0 SRi 128 miles/hr

2.0 GSi 135 miles/hr

What worries me more is the fact that an incident like this happened at all. It defies belief.

Regards

John
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Fri 15 Feb 2002 16:48
Re: Road rage - martin
this guy ended up exactly where he belongs, 25yrs inside. Utter Idiot!
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Fri 15 Feb 2002 20:13
Re: Road rage - alvin booth
Martin, He won't do 25 years unfortunately. I would suggest 8 years at the most from experience. I would rather see him getting a visit by Uncle Albert Pierepoint if he were still around.
Alvin
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Fri 15 Feb 2002 18:12
Re: Road rage - Tom Shaw
Unfortunately, there are people out there who are as psychologically unfit to be in charge of a car as they are to be in charge of a gun.

Just hope you don't meet one of them.
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Sat 16 Feb 2002 20:02
Re: Road rage - The Real Bogush
"Unfortunately, there are people out there who are as psychologically unfit to be in charge of a car as they are to be in charge of a gun."

But as with guns, of which someone once said: "if you outlaw guns - only the outlaws will have guns" they are trying to outlaw the law abiding motorist.

But how often are road deaths, accidents, or just infractions of the regulations, carried out by real criminals (according to official estimates - more often than not!) but it's the rest of us who have to carry the can.
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Sun 17 Feb 2002 11:52
Re: Road rage - ian (cape town)
Agreed, Bogush. Recall all the "calming" effects in places like Blackbird Leys (sp?) after the spate of joy-riding?
It seems the principle of "punishing the innocent as well as the guilty" has taken over from "finding the guilty"!
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