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sure many will focus on the driver, his nationality, his skin colour, that he was doing drugs, that he was a banned driver.
but for me those are all side or non issues. the problem is that the road and the car allowed him to drive and speed and thereby inject too much danger into our community.
if he had been a wayward pedestrian on drugs the riders would not have been killed.
it is the fact that he was in the car and speeding that killed the riders.
lets not forget that many road deaths (circa 4,000 every day) do not invlove drugs etc.
in some ways the driver is also a victim (of motoring policies and culture). but i think he is absolutely awful and should be punished.
but i also think the the car makers, the road builders and the road policy makers should be in the dock along with him. imo they also have a case to answer.
the politicans really need to get a grip on road policy and driving culture. it is an anarchic free for all and we, the people, are all suffering.