Ouch! 180mph = dangerous driving and 30 months clink

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/speeding-moto...

Speeding motorcyclist who used fake plates to hit speeds of 180mph caught out by his backpack

Paul Whyatt, 57, loved to hit speeds of up to 180mph - but was caught out in a speeding case doing a meagre 60mph



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xxChrisxx said:

It really is a curiosity of the sentencing system that two people can do similar things (with different consequences) and be punished differently.

This case: Biker going quickly but no accident or injury. - 14 months custodial for dangerous driving.
Prostitute road rage whilst on a suspended sentence for blackmail: Rams a biker, deliberately, causing injury. - 12 months suspended.

Biker obviously a silly, silly boy and deserves what he got for perverting the course of justice and the knife, but how can it be justified that riding at speed (admittedly extremely excessive) and not causing an accident, is worse than deliberately ramming someone?

EDIT: I suppose I should clarify. I think the woman should have has a custodial sentence too. Not just for the driving, but breaching a suspended sentence.

Edited by xxChrisxx on Monday 20th March 12:15

They are both examples of dangerous driving. One was considered more worthy of a custodial sentence than the other.

A collision or injury doesn't have to occur to make the driving dangerous. Wen you think about the word danger it means that there is a potential for something bad to happen. When something bad does occur the danger is over, hence dangerous driving can be charged when no damage or injury has occurred.

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xjay1337 said:

4040vision said:

xxChrisxx said:

It really is a curiosity of the sentencing system that two people can do similar things (with different consequences) and be punished differently.

This case: Biker going quickly but no accident or injury. - 14 months custodial for dangerous driving.
Prostitute road rage whilst on a suspended sentence for blackmail: Rams a biker, deliberately, causing injury. - 12 months suspended.

Biker obviously a silly, silly boy and deserves what he got for perverting the course of justice and the knife, but how can it be justified that riding at speed (admittedly extremely excessive) and not causing an accident, is worse than deliberately ramming someone?

EDIT: I suppose I should clarify. I think the woman should have has a custodial sentence too. Not just for the driving, but breaching a suspended sentence.

Edited by xxChrisxx on Monday 20th March 12:15

They are both examples of dangerous driving. One was considered more worthy of a custodial sentence than the other.

A collision or injury doesn't have to occur to make the driving dangerous. Wen you think about the word danger it means that there is a potential for something bad to happen. When something bad does occur the danger is over, hence dangerous driving can be charged when no damage or injury has occurred.

So you think that a biker going fast with no injuries is worse than using a vehicle as a deadly weapon?

Where did you get that, the Ladybird book of logic?
Don't talk bollix.