Wimbledon school case re-opened

[bookworm8500]

Just that really. Those poor families and children 😪 I wonder what on earth is happening and why it has been reopened. It says there were flaws in the initial investigation

I agree it is good news it has been re-opened…they tried to wipe all their internet profiles …pics are there though the plus of social media!

from reading other sites people aren’t buying it ….the case needs looking into again.

The Daily Mail published her photo but that was swiftly taken down.

https://www.ucodigital.com.ar/noticias/en-la-foto-madre-de-tres-hijos-de-47-anos-que-mato-a-dos-ninas-de-ocho-anos-despues-de-estrellar-su-land-rover-contra-su-escuela-preparatoria-de-wimbledon-durante-un-ataque-epileptico/12013/

Does no-one question why on a road like the one the school is on the school has only a wooden fence for protection? How did that look on their risk assessments for school grounds?

@oatmilk4breakfast ,

It is a very quiet road with a 20mph speed limit. I doubt a car crashing at high speed is even on the risk assessment.

The whole thing is extraordinary really. The road angles the other way, so if a driver passed out, they would crash into the other side.

Ah thanks @Newbutoldfather i wasn’t aware - it’s so tragic. Surely a seizure is the only answer then - she must have been flooring the accelerator and unable to stop but I hope the new investigation gets to the bottom of it.

I’m just bumping this as she’s been charged again.
Hopefully the truth will now be discovered, expensive law firms or not.

It's been so long though so can't see thing changing.

Do you have a link please? I couldn't see anything online.

It's on the Daily Mail and Sky News

Ignore me - just found it on BBC website.

They are obviously thinking it’s not as simple as her having her first ever seizure or whatever it was she told them.

Unsure why people are struggling to understand this.

Yes, clearly. The cost of reopening the case has to be offset against some strong evidence.
I hope new witnesses (perhaps with dashcam) can come forward. As they say, a gold Land Rover is a very identifiable vehicle.

"Were you attending the local golf course or driving in or around the area of the Study Prep School in Wimbledon at the time of the collision? Did you see the vehicle – a distinctive gold Land Rover Defender – in the lead up to the collision?

@oatmilk4breakfast There was a metal pavement barrier there at the edge of the road. It just fell over. If you go to the Spanish link above you can see it in the daily mail photo, moved to the left. Now there is a solid “bell” on the edge of the road which even that car could not get over.

I heard it on the lunch time news and it’s on most news sites Sky, newspapers.

If you are going to do 24 hour monitoring to pick up seizures as they happen, that would only happen privately unless there were very serious health concerns. So assuming tests for legal purposes, it would be private. You won't normally get a record of a seizure without intrusive live monitoring, unless you trigger them which doesn't always work.

So private / public really can't tell you much here.

Presumably this is something the families have been pushing for - due to evidence they have.

Epileptic seizures don’t show evidence in the brain after they have finished (or this is what I understand), so it’s going to be the evidence of people at the scene that is the deciding factor surely? Otherwise anyone would claim that for car accidents .

@EineReiseDurchDieZeit @Kimmeridge

I think the point is that there were questions about the quality of investigation regarding whether there was a medical event or whether the driver had reason to know they were driving with rush or some such thing.

Hopefully the new investigation will be thorough and everyone will be satisfied with it

Exactly

Exactly

Case has been reopened. That means an investigation...or are you accusing the police of something?

It might not change anything. We already know that the head teacher who was there when it happened, was not interviewed at all by police. So it could just be a reopening as the investigation wasn’t thorough enough. Which it clearly wasn’t . Doesn’t mean it wasn’t epilepsy though.

Agree, I think the key part is the original investigation wasn't thorough hence why it's been reopened.

Well I think its pretty obvious for whatever reason - and who knows if its true - that they dont believe it was an unforseen medical emergency. And that the driver knew of her condition before - I think that’s the question they want answers to. It seems obvious to me. Tragic all round.