25.12.11 Despicable Driving

Two stories last week highlighted how dangerous cars can be in the hands of stupid twats.  The first relates to a woman called Jill Copsey, and her ineptitude resulted (fortunately) in no physical injuries for others - or herself, for that matter.  She hit the accelerator instead of the brake in her Chevrolet automatic.  She drove straight through the wall in her house, and nearly parked in the dining room.  Afterwards, she said: "It's put me off driving."  Well, that's a fucking relief, as I wouldn't want to have her parked opposite me at the supermarket!  With such inability to control a tonne of metal, she could be lethal to others.

Now to a more tragic example, where the driver (Beatrice Mawamba) managed to do terrible damage.  She decided to learn how to drive, and her equally dumb and fucking useless husband acted as instructor.  However, she was let loose with the Vauxhall Astra despite having no idea how to steer, what the gears did or even where the break pedal was.  She lurched forward, went down some steps of a pedestrian walkway, and ploughed across a grassed play area.  She crushed and killed a nine-year-old girl, and left two of her friends with severe leg injuries.  A jail sentence of two years is a pathetic outcome.  There is nothing that can undo the damage done by this halfwit cunt, but to take a life in such a manner and get a sentence that will in effect mean serving 10 months is hardly appropriate.  What I cannot understand is why the police decided not to pursue charges against her husband.  He bought his wife the car, and acted as the instructor.  He was the one who allowed her to proceed without any sensible level of awareness or knowledge of the most basic points of driving.  How the fuck has he escaped punishment?  In summary, there is no deterrent here, so 'the system' is saying that anyone can supervise and act as an instructor, without any fear of punishment if there's not the slightest sense of responsibility adopted.  Husband and wife are equally to blame!

Yes, this was a weird accident, and a freak event - but TOTALLY avoidable.  Disgusting behaviour by the driver, the husband, the police and the courts.

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