Mum who killed two young sons in ‘catastrophic’ crash caused by flat tyre spared jail

Spared jail because she’s a woman who obviously was not in a position to be able to deal with such complex problems like tyre pressures.

It’s her children that died, the people in the other car were all seriously hurt.

I get people ‘demand justice’ and that, but she’s never underestimating car safety again, and her story raises the importance of maintaining a vehicle in other drivers minds.

Prison is for reformation, if used as punishment it’s cruel and ineffective, this woman has been delivered a simple lesson in the hardest way possible, she doesn’t need further punishment, what she needed was a little course in car maintenance and its importance.

The driving licence test has questions in it showing that you know how it works, but it’s simplified to a quick question like ‘point out the screen wash fill cap’ if even asked.

I think like the fire service go round schools talking about basic home safety, we should have stuff like that in adult life, people forget and grow complacent, immigrants come with different standards at home, we (our government) spend millions every year on all sorts of projects that I’m sure have their values or don’t, but like could we not have a program for reminding adults of basic things, like fire and cars, that save lives?

Like I’ve seen adverts in service station toilets reminding people to get left on the hard shoulder if they break down and I laugh, like figure me, who are they reaching out to that doesn’t get off the road if they breakdown. But also, how many times have I seen people broken down in the fast lane, or we all avoid crashes right? There’s someone crashed every week on my commute. The forest where I live has multiple fires every summer.

CPR is worth knowing, you don’t have to reach everyone with that, but every large room should have someone who knows how to save lives in it.

Like with the millions we spend on benefits, surely we can hire someone to go workplace to workplace teaching people stuff that avoids random death, or just post leaflets to every home?

It seems the circumstances of the accident were clearly punishment enough for this woman, especially losing her children. Sending her to prison wouldn’t serve any purpose.

That said, there really is no excuse for driving around on a flat tyre, especially with children in the car. She completely ignored the inherent risks and responsibilities that come with running a car and that led to 2 children being killed and 3 people being seriously injured. I completely understand why the father of her children won’t forgive her; it’s difficult to forgive this level of recklessness from anybody. 

People really need to take driving more seriously, and some drivers really need to quash this mindset of “I don’t know anything about cars, I need somebody else to deal with it for me.”
It’s absolutely unacceptable to shirk your responsibilities like that for any reason. If you’re not confident dealing with extremely basic maintenance like checking the oil, washer fluid or tyres of a car, you’re not ready to drive unsupervised.

Utter and complete negligence, both by her and the ‘justice’ system. I’d be pleading to be jailed, be the only place to try and rectify the guilt of being responsible for the death of your own kids.

Something needs done not only when it comes to sentences for women, but driving offences overall.

> ‘Whatever sentence I impose will not alter what has happened,’ the judge said

That’s not what sentences are for. No sentence for any crime can alter the past, it’s there to protect us from people who are dangerous to society. Can’t get more dangerous than this and the consequences prove it.

That’s absolutely horrendous, I can’t even imagine.

This is the right decision. Poor woman. She will never recover from this.

I know she’s only banned for 2 years but that trauma will haunt her a lifetime and she won’t drive for far longer than 2y

She absolutely should’ve got this fixed before. But I think that sentence is appropriate

Not gonna lie i drive a lot for work, around 40,000 miles a year. I had 2 blow outs in the last year. Both times I realised something was up, stopped, looked at the tyre, realised it was close to flat, tried to limp it off the dual carriageway or A road that I was on to the nearest garage, (no more than 10 mph with hazzards on) got about 50 metres before realising the trye was ripping intself apart, stopped and put the space saver on. You know when you’ve got a flat, and if you don’t you shouldn’t be driving. That being said, I suspect finances were a lot to do with this, I know a few people who wouldn’t be able to afford a new tyre out of the blue. Sadly this cost her her sons lives. Space savers or spare wheels should be mandatory and putting one on should be in the driving test. In this case it might have tied her over. Unfortunately these days a lot of cars don’t come with a spare, you just get a 12v compressor and a pack of slime.

The other day a man was put in jail because he had machinery on a trailer and he showed negligence by not checking it after stopping. The strap had sheared and it unfortunately led to the machinery falling off during a turn and killing a woman. He will spend 5 years in prison.

This woman knowingly drove around with a flat tyre leading to the deaths of two children and life threatening injuries for three others. Bizarre judgement showing the structural sexism within the judiciary.

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