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Have we had this one from yesterday?
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http://www.itv.com/hub/tt-blues/2a4115a0001
TT Documentary following the Police over the fortnight.
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Another absolutely awful crash following a police chase:
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If you hear this being reported as an 'accident', please report the broadcaster to IPSO. Driving at up to 70mph in residential areas is not accidental.. Deaths resulting are not accidental. None of the utter recklessness going on is accidental.. It is all deliberate.
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That statement seems to have gone. There's this now: http://www.baldwinscranehire.co.uk/news/2016/08/19/baldwins-company-statement.html
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More on the Penge crash:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/01/met-confirms-it-has-reviewed-vehicle-pursuit-policy
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Another pedestrian and cement truck - in Camden this time :(
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I don't think there have been many fatalities in that area, at least not in recent years.
One moment you're walking along, full of plans, hopefully reasonably happy, the next moment you're dead.
It's so awful to contemplate that it's really hard not to try to inure yourself to it somehow.
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I went past the aftermath of an incident involving a motorbike and a tipper truck at the junction of Westminster Bridge Rd eastbound and St George's Circus this morning. Bike was under the front of the lorry, police at the scene and an ambulance leaving with the sirens on. Don't know any details, HealTFU rider.
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When I heard that I thought there had been quite a few accidents in that area over the past few years. Possibly they stick out more as I pass through there most days. It's a poor junction for cycling with a cycle lane up on the left-hand side of the left-turn lane.
It's also going to be one of the HS2 routes so I imagine there'll be a huge increase in construction vehicles going down there.
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The only paper to report that it was a Cemex truck was the Camden New Journal:
Since a small newspaper like CNJ had the resources to verify that it was Cemex "whose vehicle was involved in the collision", why did the Evening Standard feel obligated to censor the photo it posted on its website?
http://saferoxfordstreet.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/nameandshame-part-2-whos-scrubbing.html?m=1
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I didn't mean to imply that there were few crashes. As in all one-way systems, there are a lot of them. There just don't seem to have been many fatalities.
If HS2 comes, the likelihood of there being deaths will certainly increase. Obviously, we hope there won't be any, but we saw what happened while the Shard was being constructed, mainly on Tower Bridge Road. I haven't heard of fatalities or serious incidents there since, even though there is still a lot of construction work going on at London Bridge Station. Perhaps the fact that HS2 will likewise be a railway project will mean that it will be managed better than the Shard works appear to have been.
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Here's a really awful crash on the M1.
I wonder if they'll succeed in making mobile phone use while driving as unacceptable as drink-driving, but we're obviously still very far from that.
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An appeal for information about this dreadful fatal crash, in which the driver of the lorry left the scene. It looks to me like one of those rigs they have for location shoots.
RIP unknown victim.
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The prosecution has changed the charge in the Penge case from dangerous driving to manslaughter:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/30/man-admits-dangerous-driving-in-deaths-of-child-actor-and-aunt-in-pengeA man has admitted causing the deaths of a child actor and his aunt
following a police chase and acknowledged the “utterly
incomprehensible pain and suffering” he caused to their family.
Joshua Dobby, 23, of no fixed abode, drove a black Ford Focus into
Makayah McDermott, 10, and Rosie Cooper, 34, as they walked along
Lennard Road in Penge, south London, on 31 August.
He was initially charged with causing their deaths by dangerous
driving but during a hearing at the Old Bailey it emerged he was now
charged with manslaughter.
Dobby appeared in court via video link from High Down prison in Surrey
and spoke to confirm his name and enter pleas to a new indictment. He
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A crash that happened to a driver just about to get into his car when he was strafed by a passing lorry, with long-lasting consequences:
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Forgot to reply to this. They haven't changed the original charge (to which he has pleaded guilty), but added the manslaughter charges (two in number), to which he has pleaded not guilty. I don't understand this bit:
Prosecutor Jonathan Polnay indicated that the guilty pleas were not acceptable to the crown and he will face trial on 27 February.
Presumably, what is meant is that the combination of the guilty and not guilty pleas is not acceptable to the Crown?
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Convicted of manslaughter but not murder--lack of evidence, I assume?
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Was initially reported as a female cyclist but has since been amended to 'woman' so not sure if cyclist or pedestrian. In any case, another fatality :(
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I was just about to post the same thing. Its sad that I read the details and was surprised the driver even got 6 years, that's a result compared to some cases.