TO THINK DRINK DRIVING....NOT THAT BAD

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If you go to this court? A mum who drank a huge amount of wine,then got in her car knowing she had no insurance and drove at high speed into two bungalows, knocking out the brick exteriors ruining homes rendering two families homeless and putting people's lives in serious danger, being vocal at the scene and three times refusing a breath test.
Got a two year ban and £100 fine! Sorry can't link please google (Plymouth evening herald latest news)

Yeah, it's grim.

The lenient sentences the courts handout are no detterant. DH loves watching the police programmes. At the end of every episode, all the burgulars, drivers in persuits and drinken louts all get let off!

Legally how many times over the limit was she?

In the eyes of the law 2 yrs is a long ban considering she didn't hurt anyone.

Wow! Awful

She also had 180hr community order.

Still, it is lenient.

that is shocking
can't you appeal a sentence that's too lenient?

Yes, she's lucky she got off without someone's death on her conscience.

Obvs not that I think it's right...

YANBU Just watched Panorama on this the other day (still on IPlayer). Sentencing for causing death by dangerous driving (14 years) often dropped in favour of lesser charge of death by careless driving. They killed someone and they get only a maximum of 5 years!

Brake are campaigning to get sentencing changed.

I think there should be a zero alcohol limit. Alcohol
Affects all people differently, being under the limit does not mean being fit to drive. I grew up near a family who's only son was killed by a drunk driver aged 6. She crashed into a mini bus taking kids to swimming, killed him outright, paralysed the driver and injured other children. I can't remember the sentence as I was 6 too. Beautiful boy he was angelic looking and was really smart and so kind and nice, but never had the chance to grow up. All drink drivers have the potential to maim and kill they should get an immediate lifetime ban and a guaranteed custodial sentence.

Thing is our jails are overcrowded as it is.

If a disqualified driver gets caught driving, they just get a longer disqualification

( that's based purely from watching Police, Camera, Action, so could actually be incorrect)

Apparently she drank about three bottles of wine.

I don't believe in a zero alcohol limit and I think the limit is fine as it is but it is indeed shite from the judicial system as it is with many many different crimes not just drink driving. DH is in the police and its like a slap in the face for them most of the time, They work so hard collecting evidence and helping build a case for them to get a slap on the wrist and back out doing it again in a few months and back to square one again.

Has she been ordered to do something about her alcohol problem?

Depends how over the limit she was not how much the local rag has sensationalised it.

Pathetic. She should have gone to prison.

linky

Why can't you link op?

Guessing OP must have a crap HTC phone line mine Mintyy that refuses point blank to copy a URL or link to anything anywhere.

That's fucking bollocks what she got. It gives me the rage as I remember clear as day, when some drunk arsehole drove into my mum and 6 other mums waiting outside the school gates for us killing my class mates baby sister.

Mintty I don't know how to from a mobile.

I definitely agree with the immediate ban as bail condition before hearing. My close friend has just lost a daughter in a RTA and its insulting that the driver was the only one unscathed and was immediately back behind the wheel and will be until the hearing which could be as long as 18m away

As she refused to give a sample she is likely to have a high risk offender ban meaning it will not be automatic to get her licence back after 2 years. She will have to pass medical examinations including blood tests to prove she is not drinking excessively to get her licence back.

the drunk driver who killed my cousin, permanently disabled his (my cousin's) partner and seriously injured 3 of his (my cousin's) four children got 18 months in prison.

A car is a weapon in the same way as a gun or a knife. To knowingly drive that weapon when drink should carry the same penalty as murder imo.

I have no tolerance for drink drivers. Selfish people with fuck all regard for anyone but themselves.

Very lenient sentence.

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