Ah nice to see the usual feelings of goodwill and peace are still about on CF. Oh...
Broken legs and nooses all round for some people. I suppose all people convicted of Death by Dangerous Driving automatically get a bullet in the kneecaps or back of the head in Zingle and Moldova land? Or just the ones in white hats?
I suppose that would all depend on if you had a reason to drive at 90MPH which despite what some people want is sometimes necessary to do and is sometimes safe enough to justify doing it.
Have a good look at the
video from inside the car.
I'll even go through the salient points for you.
0 - 49 Seconds - Car is travelling at around 30MPH, the driver isn't hooring it about for a laugh. He gets up to just over 40MPH for a few seconds.
50 seconds - A car goes past him in the opposite direction. It is read by his ANPR camera and alerts him by means of a noise and he (I imagine) looks down at the screen to see the vehicle is wanted in connection with a crime.
51 - 72 seconds - Still going at about 30MPH (probably reading why the vehicle is wanted and deciding if it is acceptable to pursue it he finds a spot to turn his vehicle
73 - 96 seconds - He accelerates hard away up a hill to catch the vehicle. In these 20 seconds or so he has to (he is alone in the car so no neighbour to do it
- Continue driving
- Make ground on the vehicle
- Inform his control room he is pursuing a vehicle
- Decide whether to activate his lights and sirens which may alert the vehicle (still unsighted) he is after it any allow it to dive down a side street
Those 20 seconds has cost a girl her life but he wasn't out with the express intention of killing someone and his driving was in no way dangerous or unprofessional till that point.
As well as him losing his job he'll probably never drive again and he
*will* feel remorse for the death, far more than half the people who kill when driving.
The other thing which I've noticed is the only other people in the entire video are at the very end when they were crossing the road. In the previous footage not one other pedestrian was seen and bearing in mind it was after 11 its possible that might have had an impact onto whether or not he activated his warning equipment.
But hey why let that get in the way of a decent witchunt.
