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Re: Crunch
by johnthedog
I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for the driver to be procecuted. We had a driver run into one of our ambulances on a straight, main road. The driver claimed he thought the road was a dual carridgeway. The paramedic driving the ambulance was convinced the driver was playing chicken. There were 4 young men in the car and a police car just behind the ambulance. The ambulance was written off, the paramedic injured and her crewmate has only just returned to work after 6 months. The driver was ordered to take a 2 day driving course. In a more serious case locally, a woman who had been driving for two hours and had made phone calls and sent numerous text messages smashed into a car broken down by the side of the road killing the young woman sat inside. The driver was found guilty of death by dangerous driving and sentenced to 3 years in prison (So she'll serve 18 months) and a 3 year ban. I'm not a member of the hang em and flog em brigade but it doesn't seem much for taking someones life for the sake of sending texts and making a call which almost certainly could have waited.
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