Not a lot, fellow motorists will be pleased to hear.
Kill a cyclist as a professional driver (despite previous convictions for speeding and driving whilst using a mobile phone) and just 200 hours of community service is required thanks to Bristol's finest Judge Neil Ford (I am sure the motoring surname is a coincidence!)
That is just double the sentence for beating a cyclist unconcious if they should clip your wing mirror.
If you kill a colleague by running over him in a lorry that you should not be driving because you are blind in one eye and cheated on your eyesight test to get your licence then that is 150 hours of community service. At least you do not lose your driving licence though! Just 9 points and a restriction to cars rather than HGVs - Thanks again by the way Judge Ford for that one too.
Mind you a word of warning. Make sure you stop if you kill someone because you are too blind to drive. A poor motorist who has glaucoma and cateracts will have to serve 4 months in jail of an 8 month sentence for killing a cyclist, obviously not for taking a life but presumably for failing to stop and only being caught as he returned home having attended the meeting he was driving to in the first place.
But despite the minor risk of a slap on the wrists you still need to be careful. Remember there is a fellow motorist with one eye about in Bristol.
Showing posts with label justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label justice. Show all posts
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Sting
(Image internet scavenged)
Although Bristol Traffic likes to break the news, especially in Bristol, there are occasions when the conventional Medja beat us to it.
Take a look at this round-up of recent stories.
Tax payers funding The Police to waste their own time. Luckily it appears only to be a London phenomenon.
I really have to object, though. After all, The Police on bicycles - that's just unnatural isn't it? Especially when they need a manual to tell them how to balance.
Apparently, though, The Police can pass a test to ride bicycles without being able to ride bicycles. Details here:
I reckon the The Police should stay in their cars. Or on their horses.
Or take notice of this brave soul, unfortunately now in the clink, who managed to put a tax-dodger in his place:
We think 33 months (make that 16.5 with good behaviour) is excessive for trying kill a cyclist, but that is British Justice for you.
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