Police are appealing for witnesses after a cyclist threatened a driver and their passengers with a knife. The car then mounted the pavement and crashed into the cyclist.
Police are appealing for witnesses after a cyclist threatened a driver
and their passengers with a knife.
https://www.sussexlive.co.uk/news/sussex-news/cyclist-threatened-driver-blade-before-8307900
QUOTE: But the Honda was then seen mounting the pavement at speed and crashing into the cyclist.ENDS
What on Earth was this car doing driving along a pedestrian footway?
Think of the toddlers there.
QUOTE: A 32-year-old man as been arrested on suspicion of attempted GBH, dangerous driving, driving without insurance and failing to stop at the
scene of a collision and released on police bail until June 26. ENDS
Not long for him to wait for a full ban then.
Soon comes around, doesn't it?
QUOTE: It is unknown whether the man on the bike sustained any injuries. However, he was seen picking up the blade before running away. ENDS
I would suggest that he was not injured on that basis.
QUOTE: It is unknown whether the man on the bike sustained any injuries. However, he was seen picking up the blade before running away. ENDS
I would suggest that he was not injured on that basis.
QUOTE: But the Honda was then seen mounting the pavement at speed and crashing into the cyclist.ENDS
QUOTE: But the Honda was then seen mounting the pavement at speed and crashing into the cyclist. ENDS
We are always assured that motor vehicles never drive on footways.
QUOTE: But the Honda was then seen mounting the pavement at speed and crashing into the cyclist. ENDS
We are always assured that motor vehicles never drive on footways.
QUOTE: But the Honda was then seen mounting the pavement at speed and crashing into the cyclist. ENDS
We are always assured that motor vehicles never drive on footways.
On Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 5:46:04 PM UTC+1, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:
QUOTE: But the Honda was then seen mounting the pavement at speed and
crashing into the cyclist. ENDS
We are always assured that motor vehicles never drive on footways.
Despite the thousands killed by footway driving.
On Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 5:46:04 PM UTC+1, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:
QUOTE: But the Honda was then seen mounting the pavement at speed and crashing into the cyclist. ENDS
We are always assured that motor vehicles never drive on footways.Despite the thousands killed by footway driving.
On Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 9:26:07 PM UTC+1, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 5:46:04 PM UTC+1, swldx...@gmail.com wrote: >>> QUOTE: But the Honda was then seen mounting the pavement at speed and
crashing into the cyclist. ENDS
We are always assured that motor vehicles never drive on footways.
Despite the thousands killed by footway driving.
A 43-year-old van driver who was over the cocaine limit mounted a
pavement and smashed into a pedestrian - breaking his back and breastbone
and leaving him almost two centimetres shorter because of his injuries, a court has been told.
CCTV footage of Wayne Anderson's van rounding a bend and then going up
onto the footway and flooring the oncoming pedestrian was shown at
Gloucester Crown Court before he was sentenced to a 16-month suspended jail term.
The court was told he had been looking down into the footwell of his van
and not paying attention to his driving when the crash happened at Shurdington, near Cheltenham, on December 12, 2021.
Wayne Anderson.
Anderson of Ladysmith Road, was driving in his white sign-written van
along Yarnolds in Shurdington at 10.20am that day when he failed to take
the right hand bend and careered straight into the 60-year-old
pedestrian, who was walking on the footpath towards a local convenience store.
The CCTV footage showed the van can approaching the bend before going too wide and mounting the pavement. Moments later the van hit the pedestrian,
who had just walked into view from a side street.
Anderson carried on driving before returning to the scene where he found
that the pedestrian lying motionless, having sustained a broken back and a broken sternum.
The court was told that the victim had to undergo surgery, which meant
that he lost about one to two centimetres in height.
Anderson was subsequently arrested for the offence and was found to be intoxicated through the use of cocaine.
He disputed, however, that he was impaired due to the use of drugs and maintained he did not know how the cocaine had got in to his system.
He stated that he had been looking at something in the footwell of the passenger side of the car when the collision occurred.
Gloucester Crown Court.
The Crown Prosecution Service chose not to argue the drugs issue in a fact-finding hearing and accepted that Anderson was not impaired by the cocaine, despite being more than twice over the legal limit for driving,
Anderson was found guilty of driving whilst under the influence of drugs
and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Judge Jason Taylor KC told Anderson: "What's become apparent throughout
this hearing is that you were effectively looking in the footwell of the passenger side of the car when the collision occurred.
"The injuries that you caused were significant and this has resulted in
the victim losing about one to two centimetres in height. Fortunately, additional surgery is not necessary.
"The victim's victim personal statement explains how he had to take off
over two months off work and has had to give up his martial arts interest.
"The analysis of your blood reveals that you had cocaine in your system.
The tolerance level for drugs is effectively zero. Your basis of plea suggests that you've no idea how that was ingested.
"But be that as it may, the fact that it was present must be reflected in your sentence, even though there was no visible sign of impairment.
"It's important to stress that there is no suggestion whatsoever that
your actions that day were caused, or contributed to, by the use of drugs
in your system. The inattention was caused by you looking in the footwell.
"You are a man who is effectively of good character. There are no legal guidelines for causing serious injury by dangerous driving, but I take
the view that looking in the footwell goes beyond that required of paying attention to where you are driving.
"It's not the same as glancing around seeing what is on the passenger
seat. You vision was obviously right down in that footwell while paying
no attention to the road in front of you.
"In this instance you turned your car into a weapon. This offence passes
the custody threshold."
The judge sentenced Anderson to a prison term of 16 months and suspended
it for 18 months. He ordered him to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work
and pay court costs of £425 and a mandatory surcharge.
Anderson was disqualified from driving for two years for both causing
serious injury by dangerous driving and driving while under the influence
of drugs and he was ordered to take an extended retest.
STEPHEN McHugh [a totally-unqualified chav-cyclist (that's all he was licenced for)], has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 18 years for the murder of Rebecca Steer in Oswestry.
The 28-year-old chav-cyclist, of Park Hall, near Oswestry, was handed the sentence this lunchtime at Stafford Crown Court.
It comes after he was found guilty of Ms Steer's murder in Oswestry last October by a majority jury yesterday (Thursday, May 4).
Mr Justice Andrew Baker sentenced McHugh to life with a minimum term of 18 years in prison for the murder of Miss Steer, plus a further four and a half years in prison to be served concurrently for the GBH of Kyle Roberts.
McHugh mowed down the 22-year-old, from Llanymynech, in Oswestry last October.
The court was told how he had been drinking alcohol and had taken cocaine and cannabis during the day.
He told the court he had only wanted to "scare" the group of people outside the Grill Out takeaway that night.University.
Passing sentence, Mr Justice Andrew Baker said McHugh, originally from Fazakerley in Liverpool, had reacted to verbal abuse directed at his erratic driving by treating pedestrians “like they were human skittles”.
Describing the murder of Ms Steer, 22 and from Llanymynech, as an outrage, the judge told McHugh: “It could so easily have been much worse for the general group on the pavement.
“For Becky Steer, as everyone in court knows, it could not have been worse.”
The judge, who ordered the destruction of Stephen McHugh’s Volvo, heard family victim impact statements telling how Rebecca Steer wanted to become a police detective and was in the final year of a criminal justice course at Liverpool John Moores
In one of the statements, Ms Steer’s mother described Rebecca as the “most loving, talented and kind-hearted person who you could have wished to know”.
The judge said of Ms Steer: “In her mother’s words she was ‘flying’ through her course and had great ambitions and a future full of potential.”
The judge told McHugh, who made a thumbs-up gesture towards the jury as he was led away: “The fact that it was illegal for you to be driving at all even if stone-cold sober (because he had no licence) makes it even more of an outrage.
“You arrived behind the wheel driving too fast and too close to the pavement – unfit to be driving anywhere.
“You drove the Volvo into the crowd like they were human skittles.
On Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 9:26:07 PM UTC+1, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:towards a local convenience store.
On Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 5:46:04 PM UTC+1, swldx...@gmail.com wrote: >>> QUOTE: But the Honda was then seen mounting the pavement at speed and crashing into the cyclist. ENDS
Despite the thousands killed by footway driving.
We are always assured that motor vehicles never drive on footways.
A 43-year-old van driver who was over the cocaine limit mounted a pavement and smashed into a pedestrian - breaking his back and breastbone and leaving him almost two centimetres shorter because of his injuries, a court has been told.
CCTV footage of Wayne Anderson's van rounding a bend and then going up onto the footway and flooring the oncoming pedestrian was shown at Gloucester Crown Court before he was sentenced to a 16-month suspended jail term.
The court was told he had been looking down into the footwell of his van and not paying attention to his driving when the crash happened at Shurdington, near Cheltenham, on December 12, 2021.
Wayne Anderson.
Anderson of Ladysmith Road, was driving in his white sign-written van along Yarnolds in Shurdington at 10.20am that day when he failed to take the right hand bend and careered straight into the 60-year-old pedestrian, who was walking on the footpath
The CCTV footage showed the van can approaching the bend before going too wide and mounting the pavement. Moments later the van hit the pedestrian, who had just walked into view from a side street.
Anderson carried on driving before returning to the scene where he found that the pedestrian lying motionless, having sustained a broken back and a broken sternum.
The court was told that the victim had to undergo surgery, which meant that he lost about one to two centimetres in height.
Anderson was subsequently arrested for the offence and was found to be intoxicated through the use of cocaine.
He disputed, however, that he was impaired due to the use of drugs and maintained he did not know how the cocaine had got in to his system.
He stated that he had been looking at something in the footwell of the passenger side of the car when the collision occurred.
Gloucester Crown Court.
The Crown Prosecution Service chose not to argue the drugs issue in a fact-finding hearing and accepted that Anderson was not impaired by the cocaine, despite being more than twice over the legal limit for driving,
Anderson was found guilty of driving whilst under the influence of drugs and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Judge Jason Taylor KC told Anderson: "What's become apparent throughout this hearing is that you were effectively looking in the footwell of the passenger side of the car when the collision occurred.
"The injuries that you caused were significant and this has resulted in the victim losing about one to two centimetres in height. Fortunately, additional surgery is not necessary.
"The victim's victim personal statement explains how he had to take off over two months off work and has had to give up his martial arts interest.
"The analysis of your blood reveals that you had cocaine in your system. The tolerance level for drugs is effectively zero. Your basis of plea suggests that you've no idea how that was ingested.
"But be that as it may, the fact that it was present must be reflected in your sentence, even though there was no visible sign of impairment.
"It's important to stress that there is no suggestion whatsoever that your actions that day were caused, or contributed to, by the use of drugs in your system. The inattention was caused by you looking in the footwell.
"You are a man who is effectively of good character. There are no legal guidelines for causing serious injury by dangerous driving, but I take the view that looking in the footwell goes beyond that required of paying attention to where you are driving.
"It's not the same as glancing around seeing what is on the passenger seat. You vision was obviously right down in that footwell while paying no attention to the road in front of you.
"In this instance you turned your car into a weapon. This offence passes the custody threshold."
The judge sentenced Anderson to a prison term of 16 months and suspended it for 18 months. He ordered him to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work and pay court costs of £425 and a mandatory surcharge.
Anderson was disqualified from driving for two years for both causing serious injury by dangerous driving and driving while under the influence of drugs and he was ordered to take an extended retest...
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