About chuffin time too

I've been driving for thirty years and have driven a lot of miles with my jobs. Fortunately, touch wood, I've never been in an accident where I've been to blame and I think you're absolutely spot on about the correlation between experience and anticipation.

Furthermore I just can't even consider for one second being distracted by texting or tweeting, etc while driving. I'm not sure how different things would be for me had I been born later and been seventeen / eighteen now. I really can't honestly say if the temptation of social media would be too much for me if I was a young driver now. I hope I wouldn't and if I knew that I might be facing a life sentence then I may resolutely resist it. Some seem incapable of staying off their phones but to be fair to the younger generation, I also see older drivers surgically attached to their mobile phones behind the wheel.[/QUOTE]
Mobile phone whilst driving is endemic here in Italy. I have even seen a member of the Carabinieri driving and texting. It beggars belief. Van drivers drive within a few feet of the rear of your car whilst on the phone. Crazy.

 

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I agree with everything you have said there 100%.

Of course, like most people with a sense of justice I am happy to see the most serious cases of death by dangerous driving punished with a life sentence. But the offence of death by careless driving needs to be treated with caution.

I can see why it has been introduced because people have died and because the CPS didn't think dangerous driving could stick in court and because there was previously no charge of death by careless driving the driver was charged only with careless driving and got a small fine and 4 points. It would seem if you were the victims rels that justice has not been served.

But in reality everyone of us has probably been guilty of careless driving at some point. Its quite a low threshold. But most of us get away with it with no harm done. When someone dies it doesn't mean that the driver automatically deserves a prison sentence and I think we would all need to be scared if it did.