2013-07-02 - Two Riders Down/Double Fatality, A30 (Newquay, Cornwall)

He also pleaded guilty to another charge of dangerous driving just a few weeks later?!?!

Driver gets 8 1/2 years in jail

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-28983049

More damming detail here http://www.forfardispatch.co.uk/news/scottish-news/sleeping-driver-jailed-over-deaths-1-3527168
A 10 year driving ban is not enough.

http://www.ctc.org.uk/blog/rhiaweston/lorry-driver-sentenced-spotlight-needed-operators

The company Palmer worked for – Frys Logistics – had its operating licence revoked in December 2013, six months after the fatal collision on the A30. CTC suspects the decision to withdraw the licence was in large part based on the involvement of the company in the incident in which Andrew McMenigall and Toby Wallace were killed.

In order to continue after the operating licence had been rescinded, the company’s owners set up a new company with a tenuously different name – Frys Transport. It seems all a company has to do to carry on business as usual when it loses its operating licence is to set itself up again under a different name.

fuck this is horrendous, the A30 is such a fast windy road riders should always avoid if possible... RIP riders

It is a bad road but what are you supposed to do when so called 'professional' drivers fall asleep and mow you down?

Life bans should be handed out.

oh yeah don't get me wrong I'm not calling out the cyclists.

life time bans just don't feel like enough...