Two stories in the newsfeeds worthy of comment.
This one tells of an 18-year old, Jack McKenzie, who couldn’t drive and had bad eyesight. He took the family car after having smoked cannabis and drove without his glasses. He was involved in a collision whilst overtaking at 60mph and died from his injuries.
The story gets close to – but never quite comes out with – “he was a nice boy”, as most of them usually do. That’s probably because everyone can see what he was.
I’m sorry, but I have little sympathy in these cases. Fortunately, he was the one who died and not some innocent third-party.
And then there is this one, about 26-year old Christopher Jones, who drove for 14 miles the wrong way on the M25 whilst trying to escape from police. He even tried to run down a police officer. And he was living in the south having done a runner from his native North Wales, having failed to turn up to his trial for another dangerous driving charge involving a police chase!
Jones was jailed for 25 months (so he’ll probably be out next year), banned for 2 years, and ordered to take an extended re-test. He should have been put away for life so that he was off the roads permanently, too.