Sometimes, you read a report that you just couldn’t make up. This is so sick that it can’t be an April Fools story.
The Digital Journal reports on the death of a young woman due to the dangerous driving of Luke Burdakay. But get this:
[Burdakay]… has only 15 per cent vision [he is registered blind], has never had any driving lessons or held a driving licence but, in February he took off in his mother’s car after an argument. He was driving on the wrong side of the B1083 when he struck the car being driven by 20-year-old Laureen Hammond, who was on her way to work at a seniors’ home.
It never ceases to amaze me that people like this exist. They shouldn’t, but they do.
The impact tore the side off of the car and the young woman was thrown to the road, even though she had been wearing a seatbelt. The car then burst into flames.
Burdakay, who is 19, has been sentenced to 12 years in a young offenders institution. But when he committed this act, he was:
- in breach of court bail
- in breach of a curfew
- took the vehicle without permission
- was 1½ times the legal drink-drive limit
- didn’t stop
- hit another vehicle
- admitted attempted robbery at a fish shop earlier this year whilst wearing a balaclava and wielding a meat cleaver
Se what I mean about not being able to make it up? And you can bet he’ll be out in a few years, ready to push his pathetic existence to new lows.
In the meantime, Laureen Hammond is gone forever.