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« Reply #15 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 23:15:41 » |
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why shouldnt it?
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« Reply #16 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 23:20:11 » |
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Well I suppose partially it has to be, or at least seen to be. I guess I just don't like the idea.
It's a bit of a waste of time if that's all it's doing anyway, it doesn't actually achieve anything.
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« Reply #17 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 23:28:05 » |
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what kind of cock drives along looking at a laptop?!? dangerous driving at its worst imo, especially in a 40 tonne lorry. especially when luke mccormick got 7 years, its fuck all. not that im condoning what mccormick did at all, as that was fucking stupid too. |
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« Reply #18 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 23:34:58 » |
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Was the laptop thing proved then? If he was full on using it I'm surprised he only got the lesser driving offence.
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« Reply #19 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 23:41:23 » |
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Records show he was using it minutes before. Dont know what that proves tbh
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« Reply #20 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 23:43:49 » |
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Using a Lap Top cant be much different to using Sat Nav or something,unless he was playing WOW and attacking an enemey outpost or maybe posting on a highly entertaining LNT on here...
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« Reply #21 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 23:45:21 » |
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ok if it was members of your family would you be happy with it  no but then again it wont bring them back he should have got a min of 6 years and ban from driving for at lease 10 years |
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Simon Pieman
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« Reply #22 on: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 00:36:42 » |
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Well he won't be driving lorries ever again so I suppose the roads are 'safer' from that perspective. Not really sure what I think about the sentence length, other than my initial reaction was that it wasn't long. But then I do not know the facts of the case.
Got me thinking though, plenty of people do silly things to take their eye of the road all the time. To change the CD in the stereo, muck about with sat nav, read a text etc. and all on the motorway. People think nothing of it at the time, but if you piled into someone it could be you ending up in prison.
People don't think about that because they think they're paying enough attention and nothing will happen to them.
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« Reply #23 on: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 00:45:02 » |
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What I think is more interesting is the fact that recently, we've had a 21yr old waitress crash and kill someone and get sent down, this lorry driver crash and get sent down and the sentencing of "Lord" Ahmed coming for committing a similar sort of crime to the aformentioned.
Should he go to prison like the other two?
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« Reply #25 on: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 09:48:56 » |
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Turn the light on?
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« Reply #26 on: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 10:14:03 » |
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Ive been away for two days..i can say this story was on my mind yesterday and probably gave me and other drivers a kick up the ass..a reminder how fine a line mistakes can be,a year ago i made the decision not to take my mobile with me when ime driving,i miss it at times but a driver i knew ploughed into a roadworks lorry killing himself instantly...he was textin,all lorry drivers make mistakes but this guy should have been more aware,the matrixes were on...i turn the awareness up a knotch when roadworks or warning signs are on,i learnt years ago its not speed that kills on motorways(all lorries are limited to 57mph) its distance,not alot of good will come out of this sad story..but i know it made me look at myself and other lorry drivers too.
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« Reply #27 on: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 12:26:06 » |
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i've seen loads of foreign truckers with their feet up on the dash boards, with cruise control on, watching dvds or using laptops whilst tearing up the middle lane of motorways.that cunt that killed the family was probably one of the sort i've mentioned.
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« Reply #28 on: Friday, February 20, 2009, 00:22:38 » |
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Read in the metro today that a woman is getting done for dangerous driving because she was on a legal hands free kit when an accident happened (and people died).
Thing is, accidents do happen - obviously they shouldn't, but how can driving whilst talking on a hands free kit be classed as dangerous driving?
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« Reply #29 on: Friday, February 20, 2009, 08:33:31 » |
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Read in the metro today that a woman is getting done for dangerous driving because she was on a legal hands free kit when an accident happened (and people died).
Thing is, accidents do happen - obviously they shouldn't, but how can driving whilst talking on a hands free kit be classed as dangerous driving?
Because women don't have the ability to do more than 1 thing at once? When she was talking she probably forgot how to drive temporarily. |
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