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I so happened to follow the case very closely and got to know the people involved. Sad about the comments I read. The are much suffering behind closed doors that no one knows about. She genuinely felt remorse and havent touch alcohol since. She had no intention to kill/hurt anyone. Alcohol got the better of her. She was in a caring profession. Who knows what it does to a person mentally dealing with ill, helpless, sick elderly people everyday, long hours and for many years. Maybe someone can share what that would do to you.
Edited by apple on 11/08/2009 at 22:38
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yes apple
i deal with sick people every day
im not a doctor
but im hated by some
ive tried
kiss
ear
letters
and all the other american dreams
unfortunately we live in a world of sad selfish people
you try and sort theitr heads out
but when you let them on the roads to kill people close to me i might just get a little teensy weensy mad
ok?
love
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apple, I am sure this lady is very upset by what has happened and doesn't want to do it again. Almost certainly, she won't. Personally I don't think a real jail sentence is appropriate in her case as no one was killed. Perhaps a longer suspended one. But a very long driving ban, perhaps reviewable after a period of time under strict conditions, does seem appropriate if only to protect everyone else.
OK, she was freaked by her work and in a state. That may be a contributory reason, but is no excuse, for risking the life, limb and property of others.
Other people do stressful work and contain the pain it causes them without doing absurd and dangerous things. Some people are more fragile and more neurotic than others and can't cope in a rational way. They are the ones who have to be watched and curbed in case they do something silly again.
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I totally agreed. The 7 year ban probably mean nothing to her. She is so traumatized by the experience. I dont think she ever drive again. I think a longer suspended sentence is more appropriate for this case. Yes, there is no excuse to risk other's life. The point I was trying to make was she is not a murderer as some called her. She made a very stupid mistake and it cost her dearly. I once came out of the roundabout in Peterborough on the wrong side of the road. I wasnt drunk and I wasnt even drinking. The slip road was in an award angle. It came straight out to the round about. I suddenly found myself on the wrong side of the road! If I hit any cars or hurt someone that day, I would be charged for dangerous driving. Probably at least 6 months sentence and few years ban!
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if she was serious about buying the farm a piece of hose pipe thru the car window would of been a better option, no innocent 3rd parties hurt ( not including family)....selfish bee atch
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Nah - cats have stopped significant CO emissions since the early 90s.
Should've put on a burka and ran into a tube station wearing bandoliers of hot-dog sausages.
Job done.
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Nibbled to death by famished obese commuters you mean? Brilliant idea Lygonos.
Might start a new perversion though.
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I have some experience of suicides from my police service. These sad people are in a different world to us and we can all say, ' there but for the grace of God...etc '
I think, now, the most difficult ones are on the railways. Drivers can see from many hundred yards away what is going to happen, they can't do a thing about it. They can be very traumatised ending in breakdowns and retirement.
My paramedic daughter went to scrape up the remains of a student who lay in front of a train at Gatley station and waved at the driver.....not the actions of a person with any regard for another's feelings.
The policeman attending got a couple of days off and counselling.....She went straight back on call from the mortuary and guess what her next job was........a gassing !
It's not an easy subject to deal with at any stage.
Ted
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A happily sets out to work, having just planned her future - working for RAC but has just got a place at University - very excited to be training as a teacher. Life is good.
B had another row with wife, got in works van and drove 15 miles from home. Driving against the direction of the rush hour traffic, put his foot down and drove into the line of crawling cars on opposite side of A road. Achieved his wish.
A never got to University, spent a year in and out of hospital and several years 'mending'. Has got a life, but a very different one. What saved her life he got the angle wrong and damaged couple of other cars before wiping out hers.
Not much more to say, is there?
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Reading that story I'm not convinced she didn't just have an argument with her husband, and go storming out in a drunken rage and drove in a similar manner.
The suicide thing seems to be a convenient excuse that has been added to mitigate her obvious wrongdoing.
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It's interesting that some posters mention that she didn't intend to hurt anyone else. This reminds me a bit of those cases where someone hits someone very hard, they fall to the pavement and are killed. It wasn't their intention to kill the person but they didn't take any steps not to kill or seriously hurt them, either. When you do something that serious - a heavy blow to the head, or drive at speed the wrong way down a road, then you have made a choice to do something that has the possiblity of having a very unfortunate outcome. Lots of people get depressed/suicidal, but it was her choice to act in this particular way. A fair sentence in my view.
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