Bashed up Bentley

[STe_rsv4]

Kin ell!
Reckon he might be slightly over the speed limit coming into that village...

http://dailym.ai/2nXjLuO

[Topbuzz]

Plumb, enough said.

[MikeyC]

Already noted in this long thread (Scuba_steve post)

[so called]

Some of the comments in the article are simply and

[MrAverage]

Complete and utter .

But he'll get a slap on the wrist, he can afford a Bentley don't you know. Can act as you wish when your in a high end German motor...

[donkmeister]

Victim says "these modern cars ring emergency services"
Car says "emergency dial set to off, carputer says no"

Not sure what the Ford driver could have done to avoid that, I read the "came out of nowhere" quote and thought "usual statement from someone not looking far enough ahead" but that Bentley really did seem to just skid into view!

[Doofus]

MrAverage said:

But he'll get a slap on the wrist, he can afford a Bentley don't you know. Can act as you wish when your in a high end German motor...

Did you read the article at all?

[TooMany2cvs]

Why does the dashcam footage say May 2014...?

I know the spot well. That Bentley was in the throes of having his own crash, without any help at all. The camcar did him a fairly big favour. He must have utterly thraped it through the High St, and even if he'd got through that pinch, I doubt he'd have made it as far as the Little Miss bypass roundabout.
https://goo.gl/maps/MJAJC1HmpE92

Any bets on his brief disappearance giving him time to sober up?

[Countdown]

Topbuzz said:

Plumb, enough said.

First name "Richard".....

[ZOLLAR]

TooMany2cvs said:

Why does the dashcam footage say May 2014...?

Date on the camera must have been out by a few years.

[TooMany2cvs]

ZOLLAR said:

TooMany2cvs said:

Why does the dashcam footage say May 2014...?

Date on the camera must have been out by a few years.

Don't they all set the date from GPS?

[captain_cynic]

Topbuzz said:

Plumb, enough said.

Plumb... Dick Plumb.

Could only sound like more of a toss if he added Jr, Esq or 2nd after it.

[ZOLLAR]

TooMany2cvs said:

ZOLLAR said:

TooMany2cvs said:

Why does the dashcam footage say May 2014...?

Date on the camera must have been out by a few years.

Don't they all set the date from GPS?

No idea sorry, just know it happened in May last year so must have been out of sync in someway.

[MrAverage]

Doofus said:

Did you read the article at all?

Didn't read it, I have now.

I think 14 months and 4 year driving ban is a slap on the wrist. If that was a youth from Bradford they would have been sentenced to hanging.

[Doofus]

MrAverage said:

I think 14 months and 4 year driving ban is a slap on the wrist.

It isn't really though, is it.

MrAverage said:

If that was a youth from Bradford they would have been sentenced to hanging.

No they wouldn't.

[fido]

And we don't even know how much their respective houses are worth. Seriously lunatic driving, I don't think 14 months is much of a punishment - though in total it keeps him off the road until he is ready for something slower like a Jazz.

Edited by fido on Wednesday 14th February 16:19

[kambites]

The ratio of custodial sentence to ban seems odd to me. Wouldn't be shorter prison sentence and longer driving ban make more sense - it'd be far cheaper and arguably keep the roads safer for longer... or maybe he has history which means they don't trust him to honour a ban.

[TooMany2cvs]

kambites said:

The ratio of custodial sentence to ban seems odd to me. Wouldn't be shorter prison sentence and longer driving ban make more sense - it'd be far cheaper and arguably keep the roads safer for longer... or maybe he has history which means they don't trust him to honour a ban.

Don't forget the compulsory extended retest after the ban's up.

<thinks>
Don't bans start on release now?
Ah, not quite.
https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/explanatory-m...
So it's a 4yr ban, plus 7mo for the minimum time he'll be inside.

The prison sentence is just about at the maximum possible - 2yrs, less the discount for his guilty plea.
https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/item...

[Dark85]

TooMany2cvs said:

Why does the dashcam footage say May 2014...?

I know the spot well. That Bentley was in the throes of having his own crash, without any help at all. The camcar did him a fairly big favour. He must have utterly thraped it through the High St, and even if he'd got through that pinch, I doubt he'd have made it as far as the Little Miss bypass roundabout.
https://goo.gl/maps/MJAJC1HmpE92

Any bets on his brief disappearance giving him time to sober up?

Jesus, I sort of assumed the Bentley was coming into a built up area and had failed to adjust to the change in road conditions; a somewhat understandable mistake although retarded to make it on such an epic scale. I was being too kind the cammer is going into town, this spanner was carrying that speed down a busy high street in the middle of the day, total lunacy.

[TooMany2cvs]

Dark85 said:

Jesus, I sort of assumed the Bentley was coming into a built up area and had failed to adjust to the change in road conditions; a somewhat understandable mistake although retarded to make it on such an epic scale. I was being too kind the cammer is going into town, this spanner was carrying that speed down a busy high street in the middle of the day, total lunacy.

It gets better. It's only about 500m from a just-about-two-cars-wide pinch immediately after a pair of mini roundabouts.

https://goo.gl/maps/cDyane6qSmu