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@Dangeruss
Seriously seems you can do pretty much anything in a car and get away with it: Drink Driving + Crashing + Causing a death = 4 Month suspended sentence....
*A police officer who was found guilty of drink-driving after a crash which left his friend dead has been spared a jail sentence.
Brendan Buggie, 39, was handed a four-month suspended jail sentence at Bradford Crown Court today after being convicted of drink-driving.
He was cleared by a jury last month of causing Justyna Stanczak's death by careless driving.
Buggie, who was suspended from Greater Manchester Police following the collision in December 2011, resigned from the force today.
The former officer had drunk around six pints and was between one-and-a-half to two times over the legal limit when he ploughed his sports car into a parked van on the A56 in Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester, in appalling weather conditions.
Miss Stanczak, 26, who was in the front seat of Buggie's Toyota Celica, died later.
*http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1596209_greater-manchester-police-officer-given-suspended-sentence-for-drink-driving-after-crash-which-killed-justyna-stanczak-in-ramsbottom