all the rajpots that commit suicide dont really care about anyone else other than themselves…the dude would just be in a bad place mentally,best he stays where he is and gets out sooner.hes going to be the scapegoat by the looks of the media attention.time served ect.if he broke down and his beancounter co told him to not wander about in a live lane leading to him sitting there anyway…whs fault would it have been then…the bus should have stopped,or avoided him in plenty of time,but watch how quietly the race card will come into play if it starts going in that direction.
/quote]DD why are you defending the AIM drivers actions?
There is absolutely no defence for him being in lane 1 stopped with no warning lights on or calling police for assistance or even attempting to alert the traffic to the danger for 12 mins.
It does not matter how he came to be stopped in lane 1 in this case because we know he was, we know he was over the limit, we know he had only his tail lights on. We also now know he had his licence revoked. And we know the rest of the details about his circumstances up to this event.
I can feel some empathy for the fact he was clearly going through a bad time. But lots of people go through bad times and lose everything and yet still manage to get on a cope with life.
The facts are he was stopped, he was over the limit, he should not have been driving that vehicle, his actions along with the fed ex drivers actions by all accounts caused the deaths of 8 people.
As for the minibus driver again it depends on why and how long he was stopped behind the truck, as had he been alive one would assume he would also likely be facing charges.
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im not defending him,just observing the usual flow of blame whereas i prefer the." never judge someone till you have walked a mile in their shoes"
the dudes head was apparantly well messed up.despair,depression,most likely on some form of medication with possibly the doc dobbing him in to vosa,and most likely just getting through his miserable existance day by day.
he might have been doing a michael douglas from falling down and whilst deciding when to step out and kill himself, nodded off,but irrespective of why he was stopped and whether he was legal or otherwise,then its still the job of drivers coming from behind to not run into stationary traffic.
im quite sure if some rich git was facing the same scenario with a proper well paid for lawyer would be able to wriggle off with a much less penalty than this dude with a court appointed defence.drivings a terrible job for not being able to forget your worries as your only sitting steering the thing nowadays.like prisoners,theres not much to istract you and problems tend to multiply when your sitting moping about it with nothing to distract you.
he was over the limit,but not by as much to be bladdered.so theres drunk in charge.no biggy.he stopped in a live lane,theres another charge.if nobody smacked him,it also wouldnt be a biggy.licence revoked,he would have next to no penalty for being able to prove he was never informed due to dossing in his car last 6 month…no biggy.the biggy is the fact 2 vehicles collided into him with the ensuing carnage and media circus,so they need to show that someones getting reamed.
me and my mate got blocked a few years ago in trafford parktotally blind staggering manky drunk.we found the 2 trucks,i fell asleep,he decided it would be a good idea to head up the road though he has no recollection of doing so,all he remembers is a cop leaning over him in his bunk,asking if he was ok,and asking him if it wasnt too noisey for him if he was trying to get a nights kip…at that point,then got him out the truck and informed him he was parked up in the middle lane of the M 61just next to rivington services.he got £450 fine and banned for 1 year.no doubt it would have been worse if someone had ran into the back of him,but they didnt.
