Drivers who kill

imp

Imp Monica* Maggie I understand all of this ..

Imp, to lose a child is bad enough, to know that the cause was reckless selfish driving must be so much worse and that the perpetrator got off scot free, is even worse. I think I should return .

But neither of us is in the competitive grief stakes. What is needed is firm measures that ensure that those who flagrantly disobey the rules of the road and cause the death of another, should be made to pay a penalty on a par with those meted out on employers whose deliberate disregard for health and safety causes the death of others.

I would include in this cyclists, as in the recent well publicised case. News reports around his case, enumerated many other cases where pedestrians were killed by reckless cycling, including other cases where cyclists had bikes without street legal braking systems.

'Competitive grief stakes' - absolutely not - shudder at the thought! I was just making an illustrative point. Sometimes we can be so used to our own stories that we forget the impact they may have.

Yes, there are many reasons for the scope of the law to be changed.

That is precisely my point Imp. Sometimes threads like this can appear like that and I just wanted to make it clear that this was something neither of us was dealing in before it was suggested.