{"id":3512,"date":"2010-09-27T08:49:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T07:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2010-09-27T08:49:59","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T07:49:59","slug":"road-accidents-dangerous-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/09\/27\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Accidents & Dangerous Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The news headlines consistently cover stories of tragic road accidents. This next one from the Daily Mail is a particularly horrifying one, which many of you may have seen in the press recently.<\/p>\n

According to reports from the Daily Mail, amongst many other press offices, (http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1314227\/Drink-driving-nurse-sentenced-8-years-killing-grandmother.html<\/a>), a drunk driver has been sentenced to 8 years after killing a grandmother and injuring two young children<\/em><\/strong> when she drove on to a pavement whilst on her way to an alcoholism counselling session. It\u2019s an absolute tragedy of a story \u2013 the report advises that 59 year old Judy De Gelas was killed<\/em><\/strong> from the impact, and her five year old granddaughter Libby was dragged across the road under the car bumper<\/em><\/strong>, suffering a fractured skull and a chest wound. Her 9 year old grandson Joshua also suffered a fractured skull.
\n<\/p>\n

The driver responsible, 47 year old nurse Jacquie Loosley, was found three and a half times over the legal limit<\/em><\/strong> when the incident occurred in June. The sentencing Judge, Seddon Cripps, reportedly \u201cchoked back tears\u201d when he served the 8 year sentence and 15 year driving ban<\/em><\/strong> on Loosley after she admitted to careless driving under the influence of alcohol; I can completely understand why. He said \u201cnothing I can do or say will bring Judy De Gelas back to life or heal the devastating injuries suffered by these little children.\u201d From the dock, Loosely reportedly said \u201cyou cannot punish me more than I punish myself every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an absolutely terrible story to hear about \u2013 there really isn\u2019t much more that can be said or discussed about the incident. The law against drink-driving is there for this exact reason \u2013 whilst under the influence of alcohol, a driver\u2019s judgement and ability to drive is impaired<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 this is a fact! Why people continue to flout the law is beyond me. The result of this incident is a fatality and two seriously injured young children. I\u2019d like to say let this be a lesson to others who consider drinking and getting behind the wheel of a car, but there are always stories in the press about drink-drive related incidents; people just don\u2019t seem to care.<\/p>\n

In a separate report from the Daily Mail (http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1314722\/Speed-cameras-dont-stop-REAL-danger-motorists-despite-300-increase-Labour-government.html<\/a>), research has indicated that speed cameras do little to stop \u201creal danger motorists\u201d<\/em><\/strong>, despite 300% increases during the Labour Government years. The report states that the increase in the use of the cameras has not done a great deal to stop the motorists on the road that are really a danger to other road users and the general public.<\/p>\n

Ministers have reportedly expressed their concerns over the issue: the cameras do well to catch a motorist driving a few miles over the limit on a road with a camera present, but there is still a lack of police patrols on the roads<\/em><\/strong> that are better equipped to spot reckless drivers. In the first Daily Mail report above, a witness allegedly sported Loosley\u2019s car weaving across the road. A speed camera doesn\u2019t spot a drunk driver \u2013 but the police certainly can. This is not to say that the tragic incident above could have been averted with more police presence on our roads \u2013 but you see my point. Speed cameras deter speeding motorists on a single stretch of road \u2013 a police officer can spot a driver flouting the rules on any road, or spot a drunk driver weaving across a road with relative ease.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It seems to me that more needs to be done. Let\u2019s see what the Con-Dems can do to improve road safety during their term of power. And I hope this story above is a lesson to anyone even considering drink driving \u2013 the consequences can be tragic. Our thoughts and sympathies are of course with the families involved at this tough time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The news headlines consistently cover stories of tragic road accidents. This next one from the Daily Mail is a particularly horrifying one, which many of you may have seen in the press recently. According to reports from the Daily Mail, amongst many other press offices, (http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1314227\/Drink-driving-nurse-sentenced-8-years-killing-grandmother.html), a drunk driver has been sentenced to 8 years … Continue reading Road Accidents & Dangerous Driving<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-opinion"],"yoast_head":"\nRoad Accidents & Dangerous Driving<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/09\/27\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Road Accidents & Dangerous Driving\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The news headlines consistently cover stories of tragic road accidents. This next one from the Daily Mail is a particularly horrifying one, which many of you may have seen in the press recently. According to reports from the Daily Mail, amongst many other press offices, (http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1314227\/Drink-driving-nurse-sentenced-8-years-killing-grandmother.html), a drunk driver has been sentenced to 8 years … Continue reading Road Accidents & Dangerous Driving\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/09\/27\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The UK's No 1 Injury Lawyers Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ukinjurylawyers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-09-27T07:49:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/police-accident3.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Author\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@InjuryLawBlog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@InjuryLawBlog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Author\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/27\\\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/27\\\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Author\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f05e9e053baf562351f1260d760015f6\"},\"headline\":\"Road Accidents & Dangerous Driving\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-09-27T07:49:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/27\\\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":656,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/27\\\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/police-accident3.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Articles\",\"Opinion\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/27\\\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/27\\\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\\\/\",\"name\":\"Road Accidents & Dangerous Driving\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/27\\\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/27\\\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/police-accident3.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-09-27T07:49:59+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f05e9e053baf562351f1260d760015f6\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/27\\\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/27\\\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/27\\\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/police-accident3.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/police-accident3.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/27\\\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Road Accidents & Dangerous Driving\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"The UK's No 1 Injury Lawyers Blog\",\"description\":\"We publish everything related to peronal injury claims.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f05e9e053baf562351f1260d760015f6\",\"name\":\"Author\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\\\/injury-lawyers-blog\\\/author\\\/matt\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Road Accidents & Dangerous Driving","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/09\/27\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Road Accidents & Dangerous Driving","og_description":"The news headlines consistently cover stories of tragic road accidents. This next one from the Daily Mail is a particularly horrifying one, which many of you may have seen in the press recently. According to reports from the Daily Mail, amongst many other press offices, (http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1314227\/Drink-driving-nurse-sentenced-8-years-killing-grandmother.html), a drunk driver has been sentenced to 8 years … Continue reading Road Accidents & Dangerous Driving","og_url":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/09\/27\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\/","og_site_name":"The UK's No 1 Injury Lawyers Blog","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ukinjurylawyers","article_published_time":"2010-09-27T07:49:59+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/police-accident3.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Author","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@InjuryLawBlog","twitter_site":"@InjuryLawBlog","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Author","Estimated reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/09\/27\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/09\/27\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\/"},"author":{"name":"Author","@id":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f05e9e053baf562351f1260d760015f6"},"headline":"Road Accidents & Dangerous Driving","datePublished":"2010-09-27T07:49:59+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/09\/27\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\/"},"wordCount":656,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/09\/27\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/police-accident3.jpg","articleSection":["Articles","Opinion"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/09\/27\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/09\/27\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\/","name":"Road Accidents & Dangerous Driving","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/09\/27\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/09\/27\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/police-accident3.jpg","datePublished":"2010-09-27T07:49:59+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f05e9e053baf562351f1260d760015f6"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/09\/27\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/09\/27\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/09\/27\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/police-accident3.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/police-accident3.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/09\/27\/road-accidents-dangerous-driving\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Road Accidents & Dangerous Driving"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/","name":"The UK's No 1 Injury Lawyers Blog","description":"We publish everything related to peronal injury claims.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f05e9e053baf562351f1260d760015f6","name":"Author","url":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/author\/matt\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3532,"href":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions\/3532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}