Too many threads appear highlighting how lightly motorists are dealt with by the courts in respect to cycling incidents.
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The 4 million is from the drivers insurance, I am not sure that is any way a strict enforcement against the driver above the 8 months imprisonment.
He'll find it very hard to get insurance at anything close to an affordable price in future I would have thought ?
He is medically unfit to drive, I don't expect he will need insurance.
They should have thrown away the key. He got off scot free IMHO.
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He is medically unfit to drive, I don't expect he will need insurance.
Well, he is at the moment yes
but both cataracts and glaucoma are treatable.
Cataracts and glaucoma? And the cretin still knowingly got behind the wheel of his car knowing his eyesight was way below the standard required?
It's bloody hard to tell the older generation that its time to pack the driving in though, I have tried with my dad, but he won't have it. He had a heart problem the other year, and had his license taken off him, but after treatment the doctor passed him fit to drive again. Its not just medical condition, he has become to slow and dithery, and his reaction times are shot.
The thing is it creeps up slowly on them, its not like one day they suddenly realise things have changed, its an imperceptible gradual shift to the person involved.
I hope that when it happens to me, I will have a better understanding of the dangers having seen the deterioration in my father, his generation was the first to embrace mass car ownership, so they didn't see the same in their own parents.
IMO the system has to change, self assessment is no way to asses someone's fitness to drive.