The sentence for hit and run drivers MUST be increased. 61 days in prison for killing someone isn't justice!

[Steaksauce]

The link to the petition is at the bottom of this article
eveshamobserver.co.uk/news/hit-and-run-family-in-sentence-review-call/

The victim of this crime was a friend of mine. He was killed aged 36 and left to die in the street by the person who hit him. That person ditched his vehicle and by the time he was caught (over 2 weeks later), it was too late to get any evidence of drink driving, speeding etc. They do know that he never even tried to brake before or after hitting my friend.
Beause of this, he was only charged with leaving the scene of an accident and therefore only served 61 days in prison. For taking a life.

The victims family are trying to get this loophole in the law changed as they feel there is almost an incentive to leave an accident as you're almost certain to get a lesser sentence than the maximum of 14 years for death by dangerous driving (which he would have been charged with had he stayed)

Please sign so this gets considered by parliament. This is the sort of crime that could happen to anyone and, sadly, is likely to happen again, devastating another family.

Thanks for reading.

[MollyHuaCha]

Great result,10101 and still a day to go!

[Waddlelikeapenguin]

Excellent! Coming to find you

Hope the name swap isnt going to cause you problems

[Steaksauce]

New thread is here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/petitions_noticeboard/3282334-The-sentence-for-hit-and-run-drivers-MUST-be-increased-continued?watched=1

Accidentally posted in my new name (I had to change it as I've been identified on here by some friends)

[PaddingtonBearHardStare]

Steak I am just hoping if it's a new thread linked to this it wouldn't get zapped and be another thread we could keep active

[Waddlelikeapenguin]

9,404

Please sign & share
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/208008

This is the Brake charity tweet about the petition to retweet
mobile.twitter.com/Brakecharity/status/1008711254435823621

[Waddlelikeapenguin]

9,393

[Waddlelikeapenguin]

A beautiful number! 9,333

Of course we can never change the past but you have (hopefully! I cant bear to jinx it!) made the future better

[Steaksauce]

I know it's fantastic!

It can't change the past but if the government considers changing the law or this campaign makes one more person slow down or stay at the scene then it saves another family the heartache of injustice on top of loss.

I feel very humbled at how so many people on this site have taken this to heart.

[Waddlelikeapenguin]

Only 719 more to get the 10000 steak

[Steaksauce]

Hopefully we'll get to 10k and the other threads will be enough once this one is full

[Waddlelikeapenguin]

Yes! This thread will fill before the petition does (but not by far )

[PaddingtonBearHardStare]

@Steaksauce you need to start a new thread to follow on from this one

[Whatsmymethod]

9091

[Waddlelikeapenguin]

This is the link to brake on twitter to retweet please

mobile.twitter.com/Brakecharity/status/1008711254435823621?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

[Whatsmymethod]

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/208008

Please keep signing and sharing

[Waddlelikeapenguin]

976 more signatures please

Paddington this is happening & the government will be forced to make a real response due to the brake publicity

[MollyHuaCha]

9026

[PaddingtonBearHardStare]

It's gone up 700 since midnight and didn't really gain momentum till this evening. This feels like this might actually happen!!!!

[Waddlelikeapenguin]

995 to go

[PaddingtonBearHardStare]

9,000, yessssssss!!!!!!!!

[Steaksauce]

8964

[Waddlelikeapenguin]

It's really moving

8,848

[Steaksauce]

Bumping

[1234hello]

And Facebook Paddington. I had an email from them - it’s on one of the threads but can’t remember which one!

[PaddingtonBearHardStare]

Brake have picked this up Twitter!! I don't know how to link but they have 19.5k followers!!