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I was trying to work out how it was private land and seems to be she was on the driveway in front of her gran's house and the driver was trying to turn around or something, accelerated instead of braked and hit her. Mad that being on the driveway is enough to count as it happening on private land when the driver was coming off a public road.
When a driver comes off the road and hits someone's house they seem to be done for dangerous or careless driving at the least. How is that different.
E.g.m https://www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/news/19988662.pedestrian-killed-car-crashes-house/ -
This happen just up the road from me this week. Sounds like the same circumstances, private car park older driver, as I understand it, the dead and injury people are friends with the driver had just been for a meal together.
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/20519408.woman-68-dies-crash-chinese-restaurant-park-gate/
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Why no manslaughter charge?
Oddly, this is just the circumstances where they could be charged with 'Causing bodily harm by wanton or furious driving' it's part of offences against the person act, rather than the road traffic act.
it seems to have a 100% conviction rate ....... if your a cyclist etc.....
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IANAL either but as I understand it there is a difference between private land like a private drive on your country estate and private land like a pub car park. The general public ordinarily have access to the later and the RTA does apply there.
Edit: https://thedrivingsolicitor.co.uk/2019/03/11/road-or-other-public-place-where-do-driving-laws-apply/
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Good story, as is this from the same site
https://gizmodo.com/crypto-texas-ercot-bitcoin-heatwave-1849170538
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Enough of this depressing shit, we need more stories like this
"Man fleeing scene of crash attacked by emus"
A driver who fled the scene of a crash was attacked by a group of emus after climbing into their field.
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This is no laughing matter. It's not the robots we should be worried about. It's the Emus who think they're Judge Dredd.
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Back to the depressing shit - Guy's and St Thomas': Hospital in meltdown over IT issues
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At one point there was an interim CTO at GSTT who was charging £1000 per day and working from Bangkok.
The true scandal there is how much IT money has been spent and how much of that money has been skimmed into private sector profits.
** I worked there in 2016 and quit in protest due to what was happening. All the big consultancy firms had their noses in the trough.
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Common wealth games - 3/4 of a billion pounds. What a waste of money
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Interesting, not clear yet what the other policies are. But good to see new green parties pop up.
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How's that, then?
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interim CTO
The proportion of senior public sector roles which are filled on an "interim" basis, often for years by contractors on sky high day rates far in excess of what they are allowed to pay a permanent hire is a complete scandal in general.
Partly the far below market rates offered for such roles but also the tolerance for mediocre contractors just occupying a seat (or not even that in your example)
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Yeah but it was Oracle and Google's cloud services so nobody noticed