PC let off in fatal accident

[Harold_Shand]

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/8418921.stm

Well, a police van doing 77mph in a 40... loses control and causes an accident which later becomes fatal. He blames a tyre with low pressure, not excessive speed and this gets him off. How?

If he knew about the tyre, why was he going so fast in a VAN?

The girls mother shouted "Why is my daughter dead?" at the jury when the verdict was read out. NO JUSTICE.
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Harold_Shand's theory might be the best explanation.

[lostboy]

Legally it was the officers job to check the road worthiness of his assigned vehicle therefore he is guilty END OF
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[D O G]

That is appaling.

Somehow I doubt that your or I would get off for killing someone when doing nearly double the limit in a vehicle with a defective tyre.

Why can't they see that this attitude by the magistrates does nothing to discourage reckless actions of police officers when driving their vehicles?

[Hetzer]

It took the jury five hours to reach their verdict. I suspect the state manages to plant 'friendly' jurors in cases like this, somebody to talk the others around.
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[UnknownStuntm...]

I've never had the pleasure of jury service, I often wonder about 'suitability' of jurors. Hetzer, I reckon you're spot on the money there. Any other Joe would have been hauled across the coal for that, but because the Nazi Filth know the system they get off scott free.

I absolutely do not trust any vehicle with blue lights on it any more. Even if I'm walking along on the pavement, I'll get out of their way, they all seem to be driven by absolute CUNTS of the highest order, with no common or implied sense, other than the sense of their own well being.

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[yuri2085]

Well, in fairness. If it was the tyre- it is still his fault but he would not be guilty of 'death by dangeorus driving' would he?

The hazy bit here is even if I had lawful excuse to be speeding...if I was doing 77 in a 40 and killed someone I would prob be assumed to be driving dangerously as I am a civvy.

I don't think we can assume he knew about the low pressure tyre beforehand (then it would have prob been dangerous driving)

[Rejimbo]

I dont see the issue here, assuming the "tyre pressure" was just an excuse and he didnt really have prior knowledge of it, then its an unfortunate accident after he's responding to a high-priority emergency.

Put the boot on the other foot, if the call was someone being murdered/raped etc etc, and he responded by driving at the precise speed limit you'd be the first to blame him for the crime being able to take place.

[GhostRider]

[Rejimbo]

Sorry, forgot i read another article on the story, https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/8279110.stm

[GhostRider]

[Itchy]

[Redoko]

Just another nail in the coffin for Britain's 'Justice' system. I use the phrase nail in the coffin in the home that one day it will die and be reborn fair.

Ha. I wish.


EDIT* It's a just gets better and better...

[chris-red]

...and when the police are travelling the speed limit and they take 10 minutes to get to your house while your family are being butched and raped I'm sure it would be a different sorry.

Things like this are inevitable, and I don't think we can judge based or bias media coverage. Even the top figthers pilots in the world crash once in a blue moon as will the most advance of drivers. It sounds shit but if he was responding to a highiest priority call it would have been a murder or violent assault in progress. I'm sure his training was up to stratch and he was driving within what he thought where is limits, accidents happen and personally I would rather the odd accident where somebody gets killed than the police (or any emgergency services) taking a considerably longer time to turn up at an incident.
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[GhostRider]

Probably a good job he never made it to the scene of the alleged crime anyway, given that the victim would have probably got banged up judging by todays standards.......

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[Rejimbo]

Whichever foot the shoes on there will be somebody obviously extremely upset looking to place blame.

[chris-red]