In 2015, nearly 5000 people were killed of seriously injured in hit and runs in London alone.
This number is on the rise. Leaving a fatal accident scene benefits the perpetrator as if they are caught they face a much lesser sentence of Leaving the Scene rather than Death by Dangerous Driving.
My friend was one of those killed and his family are trying to change the law so that leaving the scene of fatal hit and runs is a comparable offence and remove the once incentive to drive away. He was left to die in the road aged 36 and the man who killed him served just 61 days in prison.
This crime can happen to anyone of us. Children have been killed in hit and runs. Elderly people have too.
Children have been left without a mother or a father because of this crime.
For those who callously drive away and leaving someone dying in the road to get a sentence of days or weeks it's vile.
Imagine how you'd feel if this happened to a loved one? I really hope it never happens to anyone reading but it could.
Please help change this law so that justice can be done for victims and their families.* *
We're trying to get to 10000 signatures by 20th June on this petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/208008
Please help Mumsnet, for all the victims, past and future of this cowardly and devastating crime.