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    Teenage motorist who hit and killed cyclist banned from driving for a year, ordered to complete 180 hours unpaid work, and fined £240
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    Teenage motorist who hit and killed cyclist banned from driving for a year, ordered to complete 180 hours unpaid work, and fined £240


    Teenage motorist who hit and killed cyclist banned from driving for a year, ordered to complete 180 hours unpaid work, and fined £240

    https://road.cc/content/news/teenage-motorist-who-killed-cyclist-avoids-jail-309073

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    1. Thebritishdovah on

      And yet, if he was on a bike(Not motorbike), ran someone over, he would get a more harsh sentence.

    2. OpticalData on

      As usual, if you want to kill somebody in the UK do it with a car.

      The rest of the shockingly light sentence aside, I simply cannot comprehend the logic behind giving somebody who hit and killed a cyclist in broad daylight two weeks after their test only a one year driving ban.

      They’ve only just got the license, so the usual excuse of they need it for work can’t be used. So why on earth is the ban not permanent or at least for a significant amount of time?

    3. 5n0wgum on

      He must have hit the guy with some force. This exact thing happened to me when an old lady pulled out on me while I was on my lambretta. This does sound like a tragic accident if the driver is to be believed. I feel sorry for all involved.

    4. Macho-Fantastico on

      That’s an absolute disgrace of a sentence. Makes you sick.

      But when you have Scotland letting out criminals due to overpopulation, nothing should shock you.

    5. No-External-8243 on

      I got fine more for MS90 even though I didn’t receive letters from the police. Ffs

    6. Lost_Article_339 on

      I’m guessing the fact the driver was seemingly not intoxicated and was not performing a dangerous manoeuvre, has led to a lighter punishment in this case.

      Still, it does leave a sour taste in your mouth that someone has needlessly died as a result of someone’s lack of attention and carelessness – while they get off with a year’s driving ban, a small fine, and some unpaid work. If it was one of my loved ones, I’m not sure I could take that on the chin.

      I suppose the youngster will have to live with that for the rest of his life, however. Drivers need to be trained better in seeing potential hazards, especially hazards such as cyclists as they are often harder to see when you’re in a big metal box. I don’t think the current hazard perception test is enough.

    7. nick2k23 on

      That should be a much longer ban and retake before they can drive again, killing someone two weeks after passing is insane.

    9. lemon-fizz on

      What a fucking joke. This lad was obviously not paying attention. The punishment is ridiculous. One year ban? That’s it? If I was the victims wife this would send me to the grave as well because the rage I’d feel would do me in. Not only has this poor man died, but the person who did it has basically got away with it. He’s taken someone’s life yet once he’s done his poxy community service and got the bus for a year, he can trot off as if it never happened.

    10. zer0srx on

      Rock bottom country here you get away with murder if you hit a cyclist, where is the justice here if road rage murder is not punished?

    11. Happytallperson on

      If you want to plead the defence to the more serious Dangerous Driving Charge that you didn’t see the person, it should come with the acceptance that you will never be a safe driver and should never be allowed to drive. 

      A year long ban won’t fix the fact that this man is apparently unable to see cyclists. So he will remain incredibly dangerous. 

    13. lastaccountgotlocked on

      If the cyclist had paid road tax this definitely wouldn’t have happened etc etc

    14. Awkward_Opposite5538 on

      I had a collision with a cyclist end of last year and all i can think is It’s mental how someone who only passed the test 2 weeks prior to the incident and killed the other person involved got 120 hours more in community service than I did. Considering in my case the cyclist got a broken rip which healed in 4 weeks and I hadn’t had a single point on my licence for the 11 years I’d been driving, the fact the only difference between our punishments is more community service for the guy who killed someone actually staggers me. I also had to give up my job because I needed my vehicle for work and wasn’t allowed to plead additional hardships due to the courts giving me an immediate bad whilst they gathered evidence for a court date 3 months later.