Three year sentence for dangerous driving death

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Tue 11 Aug 2009 12:22
Three year sentence for dangerous driving death - Optimist
I don't want to rant or to start a rant but if you read this story

tinyurl.com/l7cro2

and note some particular features: twice the 30 speed limit when the accident occured, total familiarity with the road so aware that there would be pedestrians etc, making off and concealing afterwards (or why would the passenger be done for perverting the course of justice?), racing with the other car maybe, you can't help think three years is a bit light.

Edited by Optimist on 11/08/2009 at 12:23

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Tue 11 Aug 2009 17:40
Three year sentence for dangerous driving death - ifithelps
...is a bit light...

Certainly sounds like it.

One of the factors which may reduce the sentence is the degree of culpability of the victim.

Crossing the road at a point where pedestrians rarely do so, for example.

Even if something like that applied here, it still sounds a bit light.

Were I the victim's mother, I would be putting pressure on the CPS to appeal the sentence as overly lenient.

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