Please report dangerous drivers to the police - Roadsafe. Report to plod, not just whinge here.

Indeed. Amazing how the occurrence of 'episodes' can cause delay to a trial hearing, but not stop someone attempting to drive...

Fucking desperate. Must have been agony for the deceased's family.

I know they're lawyers and by default total bastards but I find the use of 'unfair' very distasteful, given what he did to several innocent bystanders and their families!

I don't understand how he can be found guilty for causing the death but not severe injury by the same action?

18 months inside and a life ban:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/retired-stockbroker-85-jailed-for-killing-young-mother-after-losing-control-of-his-mercedes-9941216.html

I think this is a very real tragedy. The right outcome for someone who hasn't accepted responsibility and will now have to.

some of the biggest cunts will be off the road soon:

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/dec/25/city-link-administration-jobs-delivery-company-losses

Nah, the drivers are all self-employed "partners", so they'll likely switch to another delivery company and continue to drive like complete cunts on their way to chucking people's packages in bins and hedges. Feel sorry for the back-office staff who've been given their P45s on Christmas day, tbh.

maybe some will not find a job and drink themself to death.

"better capital" who got citylink little over a year ago seem like utter cunts and have nicely worded shafting people all over as this.

http://www.bettercapital.london/about.cfm

Better Capital provides consultancy services to the general partners of the Better Capital Funds. These services include both the provision of generic information and research and the identification of potential acquisition and disposal opportunities for consideration by the general partners.

I hope the drivers who deliver to my work are ok, they delivered in branded vans and had been proper staff. Worse is one of them was training a new guy just last week and said he is working next week so if he hasn't seen the news it's likely he will go in early monday to really crushing news. Pretty much everyone overspends at Christmas and repays in the new year too so it's just shit on so many levels.

This is one of those crash stories that really stays with you, not least because of the behaviour of the guilty party and how the story demonstrates the sense of entitlement that is often behind not only mistakes but also routine driving behaviour--have a look at the map where his home in Hamilton Terrace is in relation to the crash site. I don't know if he's disabled and unable to walk or to use the bus, but it's known that many people drive distances like this in London. I'd say some slight semblance of justice was served (at least compared to other cases where the perpetrator walks free).

I can't for the life of me really imagine what it must be like to be so unlucky as to be in a crash like this and die or lose an eye. The thought alone turns your stomach. Life isn't perfect and we must accept a certain level of risk, but not random, pointless, and entirely avoidable risk like this.

Out for a nice ride a couple of days ago, rattling down a hill through a local village and Mr Jag XK is way too important to have to wait at a junction for a mere bicycle to ride past and decides to pull out, slowly and blocking the whole road so not even a chance to nip a crafty (but legal) overtake in.

I saw it coming so was already on the brakes, but it was still a fair job to not go straight into the side of him (sexist assumption as I couldn't see the driver).

Reg K1CWT, so distinctive I even remembered it, which in itself is remarkable, however, I was also trying out my new SJ4000 (Go Pro ripoff) camera.

So, reported to the nice people at Avon and Somerset with video clip to back it up.

I'm still not convinced he actually saw me at all, and I followed him for a quarter of a mile after the junction, with my nice Moon front light flashing away like a good'un.

Geoffrey Lederman, 85, hit the accelerator of his vintage Mercedes sportscar instead of the brake and careered onto the pavement on the wrong side of the road at 54mph.

does prompt the question whether we'd all be safer if people over a certain age had to prove they were still competent enough to drive a car,

the answer seems a little obvious really..

ps. reported an incident of last night - a driver refusing to slow down, or give way at a roundabout,

@Grubbythumb how is the sj4000 in the dark? I'm thinking of getting one but worry it will be awful like a past cheapo attempt

I haven't used it in complete darkness, but at dusk, when cars had their headlights on and street lights were on, it recorded well enough for me to get the reg number of a bus that did a couple of close passes.

It does not like headlights lights shining straight at it... but who does?

https://vimeo.com/116431029

does prompt the question whether we'd all be safer if people over a certain age had to prove they were still competent enough to drive a car,

the answer seems a little obvious really..

Minus the ageism, it's an old and oft-repeated demand--mandatory periodic driver re-testing for drivers of any age. FWIW, the main drivers who put people at risk tend to be younger, more reckless people (part of the reason why the very occasional failings by elderly people often make the news is because they are comparatively rare).

That may be the case in cities, but out by the seaside where I live we have a high percentage of retired people and hence drivers, and I have lost count of the number of times I have had cars pull out on me, try to crush me against the curb, preform extremely dodgy overtakes, overtake and then stop / turn that have been driven by older drivers.

I also ride a horse, so have a height advantage and better visibility down into cars, and it is older men who are the most troublesome, time and time and time again.

I don't take any of it personally, they are not trying to specifically kill me, any passing pedestrian / cyclist / horse rider / fellow road user will do.

A check up test every 3-5 years or so would be great.

sohi

some of the biggest cunts will be off the road soon:

theguardian.com/business/2014­/dec/25/city-link-administration-jobs-de­livery-company-losses

From the comments:

maximilienrobespiere Novo
25 December 2014 6:36pm

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not at all if you have had the 'miss'fortune of working in the industry; slaved for ANC (eaten up by Fed-Ex) in the late 80's early 90's. Another fetid yank 'franchise' import where the employees not only paid for their own kit but also financial responsibility for anything that went wrong as well. My original comment stands as NOW we have 'employees'(sic) being obliged to go self-employed, provide own transport and storage for goods, and are paid a pittance per item delivered (this is the Tory filths 'brave new world'). As I said, dog eat dog 21st century capitalism - loathsome.....

Won't somebody think of the profit?

Not mine but it's doing the rounds today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRMf6HftCzM

The cyclist doesn't help himself by undertaking the van in the first place. Still no need for that level of violence mind.

The cyclist doesn't help himself by undertaking the van in the first place.

You're making it sound like the blame also applied to the cyclist.

Partly, but as I said no need for that fella to react the way he did.