• The inquest for the crash I posted about here is sitting.

    Police helicopter footage captured the moment a stolen Land Rover ploughed through a 6ft high maize field to try to evade officers, before returning to the road and causing a fatal crash.

    [...]

    Jablonski, of Mutfordwood Lane, Carlton Colville, Suffolk, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing at Norwich Crown Court to causing death by dangerous driving, Norfolk Police said.

    He also admitted causing death while driving without insurance and while disqualified, aggravated vehicle-taking and criminal damage.

    He was jailed for 11 years over the incident, plus a further one year for an unrelated previous offence for which he originally received a suspended sentence, the force said.

    He was banned from driving for 13 years.

    Urbaniak, of All Saints Road, Newmarket, Suffolk, pleaded guilty at a previous hearing at Norwich Crown Court to aggravated vehicle-taking and burglary.

    He was jailed for two years and banned from driving for two years, Norfolk Police said.

    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/land-rover-norfolk-police-norwich-crown-court-nissan-norfolk-constabulary-b1147808.html

    The police here pursue burglars driving a stolen car that they'd taken that day, returning to the scene of the crime. The driver is drunk and ends up killing another driver, trying to get away from the police despite the presence of a helicopter (which he may not have noticed).

    What always gets me is when people equipped with such powerful machines as motor vehicles veer out of control for whatever reason, drunkenness or prior guilt or whatever, and end up causing tragedies like this.

  • The theory, and I don't know how much of this is based on evidence, is that a lot of people with lifetime bans will ignore it and drive regardless because there isn't that carrot of being able to drive in the future that comes with a limited ban (and to get a lifetime ban there's a pretty good chance you're not a law-abiding driver).

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