Category - Bad Drivers

Another chiller tells how John Jones, 29, led police on an 80mph chase along Blackpool’s Golden Mile in the early hours at a time when there were still a lot of people around. The court was told that he was “away with the fairies” on drink. He had no driving licence or insurance.

Yet another pathetic mitigating plea was lodged:

Preston Crown Court heard the defendant could not recall much of what happened and was someone who had suffered agoraphobia, anxiety, depression and panic attacks. He was also said to have lost friends through drink driving incidents.

All the more reason to lock him up and throw away the key. Instead, he was given a paltry 12-month suspended sentence, banned for three years, community service, and a three-month curfew.

This is a chilling story. Peter Conroy, 73, knocked down two pedestrians, one of whom died six weeks later. He claimed he was wearing the wrong glasses, but police found his eyesight made him unfit to drive whether he was wearing the correct ones or not, and that he had lied to the DVLA in order to keep his licence.

Conroy said in court that the women “ran across the crossing”, but CCTV footage revealed he was lying about that, too. Audrey Noden, the woman who died, was 93. John Siddle from Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership said:

Ninety-three-year-old women don’t run anywhere.

In spite of the CCTV evidence, Conroy still denied he was at fault. He eventually admitted to causing death by dangerous driving. The court heard that Conroy had glaucoma, was blind in one eye, and short-sighted in the other. Yet he told the DVLA he was fit to drive when he had to renew his licence at 70.

Conroy was jailed for 2 years and banned from driving for 10 years. I can’t work out why he was banned for a finite period – it should have been permanent.

Part of me almost feels sorry for him. But most of me doesn’t. Lying to the DVLA is a common practice among elderly drivers.

Here’s yet another example of a pathetic defence plea by some cretin who should really be behind bars for good for all of our sakes.

Sharmiz Roshan, 24, was already banned and had numerous driving offences against his name. At least one of them had involved a custodial sentence, and he was even subject to a suspended sentence at the time he was caught driving again. Police spotted him driving a white Porsche while they were in attendance at a crash scene where 11 people had been injured, including a 12-year old boy. Roshan had been caught on CCTV behind the wheel, but denied he was driving.

His defence lawyer, Nick Ross, said:

…the Porsche was rented by Roshan’s friend and he “succumbed to temptation”.

He understands the stupidity. He is ashamed and embarrassed. He wishes to give the guarantee to the court that this will not happen again. This is the wake up call.

Roshan works as a mechanic and has found his religion again.

What pathetic bollocks. Roshan has proved what kind of scum he is by virtue of his record. His brain is so warped that absolutely nothing could “wake” him up, least of all religion. It was just an attempt to weasel his way out of trouble.

Fortunately, he was as good at weaselling himself out of trouble as he was at driving without getting caught. He was jailed for 34 weeks.

Zain Iqbal is a pathetic little weasel who undertook another car and – as a result of his non-existent road skills (which he probably thought were brilliant) – smashed into a taxi. This is what Iqbal’s actions resulted in…

A pedestrian, Gary Booth, was pinned against railings by the cab that Iqbal sent spinning off the road. He suffered leg fractures and needed a skin graft. His previous job as a ski instructor is probably over.

Pregnant Wei Liu was a passenger in the taxi. She had to have an emergency caesarean a month before the baby was due. She suffered a torn aorta, and fractures to her pelvis, ribs, and face. She also suffered a punctured lung and has scarring, as well as bleeding on the brain. A blood clot near her kidney may need surgery, and she has trouble with her balance now. There are also issues with the “bonding” between her and her son.

Wei’s boyfriend, Geng Liu, was also in the taxi. He sustained a punctured lung and rib fractures. The taxi driver and another passenger sustained minor injuries.

You don’t need to be a genius to work out what sort of speed Iqbal was doing to cause such damage – and this occurred on Great Ancoats Street in Manchester, which is a built-up town centre area not far from the MEN Arena. The vile scumbag’s lawyer claimed:

…his client felt “overwhelming guilt” that he had “ruined lives”.

What a load of crap. He was just sorry he got caught. If it wasn’t for luck – if you can call it that, as far as the Lius and Gary Booth are concerned – he could easily have killed five people. He nearly did.

The sentence is quite laughable. Iqbal has been put away for a mere two years and four months, so he’ll be out before next summer, most likely. He’s also been banned from driving for a paltry four months (it should be a lifetime ban). British Law strikes again.

Olivia Flanagan was 18 and on her way home from her new job as a beautician. She was killed when she was involved in a collision with a prime example of human scum, Luke Sykes (31). Sykes was over the drink-drive limit. Sykes had only just got his licence back following a previous ban, clearly illustrating the kind of vermin he is.

It isn’t clear why Sykes got away with a mere 8 years in prison, when the maximum sentence is 14 years. Maybe it had something to do with playing his ace and pleading guilty.

British Law is a complete ass.

I thought I was missing something when I saw this. Until the last few seconds of the clip, that is – when reality struck back. In summary, Jack Sanderson was nearly killed when his bike almost collided with a car on the notorious Cat & Fiddle Road in Cheshire. Instead, Sanderson rolled down a hill and escaped injury.

The A537 is one of the most dangerous roads in Europe. It also attracts some of the stupidest specimens on the planet – and it is because of those that the road has had reduced speed limits imposed, has double white lines indicating that no overtaking is allowed, and has speed cameras fitted. So, when you look at the video recorded by Sanderson you immediately notice how many rules he was breaking.

To start with, it doesn’t look like he was driving at 50mph (the speed limit which is imposed on that road, I believe). Secondly, he clearly crosses a solid white line – on a bend, with a sign warning of a series of bends, and SLOW marked on the road – to overtake another biker. It is after that when he apparently loses control, veers across the solid white line again on another bend, and almost smashes into a car coming the other way (and note that the two are approaching each other at an combined speed of over 100mph).

He avoids certain death for himself by flinging his bike off the road and down a hill. The text snippet for the report simply says:

A motorcyclist has had a lucky escape on one of Europe’s most notoriously dangerous roads and published the video as a warning to others.

Jack Sanderson from Cheshire crashed on the A537 Cat and Fiddle road, in Cheshire, after his motorbike crossed the white line and he swerved to avoid an oncoming car.

What it should say is that Sanderson was a dickhead who was speeding, overtaking illegally, and behaving in a dangerously immature way because of his almost non-existent riding skills, and who very nearly caused the death of an innocent motorist because of this illegal and incompetent behaviour.

The last words are that Cheshire Police are investigating. Let’s hope they don’t bottle it and let the moron off. He should be banned from riding or driving for a very long time.

Edit: the Police didn’t bottle it, but the courts did. Sanderson escaped jail.