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Driver evading roadblock derails train

23 December 2011 By admin

I think that the time has come to start getting properly tough with reckless drivers. Anyone who wilfully evades a roadblock should automatically be assumed guilty of drunk driving and sent to jail for a minimum of 2 years. The problem is they get caught, the police can’t prove that they were inebriated so what can they be charged with. A similar issue happened in the small town where I live. An acquaintance that I know had a couple of drinks and was driving home (Just to put the record straight I do not agree with this behaviour). She edged out of a stop street to see what traffic was coming and was hit at high speed by a car with three students in it. The damage was quite considerable (This is in the middle of town). The three students fled the scene, she was breathalysed and did the blood test thing and she now has a drunk driving charge against here. The student driver who fled, of course cannot be charged with drunken driving because she wasn’t there. In this kind of case, you get some lame excuse, I ran to a telephone to call my father to let him know that I had just had an accident, sorry?! The law should be changed to indicate that anyone who flees any kind of motoring eventroadblockaccident should be automatically incarcerated for a minimum period of two years and be assumed to be drunk and have their licence revoked. In this particular incident, the lady who’se car was crashed into now has a drunk driving charge on her record, and technically it wasn’t her fault. More proper traffic police and law which hold people accountable.





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