{"id":11586,"date":"2013-01-31T20:19:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T20:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=11586"},"modified":"2013-01-31T20:19:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T20:19:06","slug":"result-cassies-law-is-going-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=11586","title":{"rendered":"Result! Cassie\u2019s Law Is Going To Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/368;float: left; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline;\" title=\"Cassie McCord\" alt=\"Cassie McCord\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cassie_mccord.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"368\" align=\"left\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>A reader <a title=\"Cassie's Law: Unfit drivers to be banned from the road within hours of failing sight tests in memory of girl, 16, who was killed on pavement by 87-year-old\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2271164\/Cassies-Law-Unfit-drivers-banned-road-hours-failing-sight-tests-memory-girl-16-killed-pavement-87-year-old.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">provided me with this link<\/a>, which I hadn\u2019t seen &#8211; it\u2019s in today\u2019s Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>Readers will be aware that I ran a few articles on the <a title=\"Cassie\u2019s Law \u2013 ePetition\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cassie\u2019s Law E-Petition<\/a>. The petition closed last November, and I honestly thought that it had failed to gain enough support to be debated in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The reader who sent the link referred to MY campaign. I wish I could claim that honour, but all I did was report on it and push it as hard as I could. I was not involved with it beyond that, and did not liaise with Jackie McCord (Cassie\u2019s mother) in any way at all. The story just touched me &#8211; as well as hitting a nerve! The only thing I do know is that the stories I posted got quite a few hits and I\u2019d like to think that this led to the petition gaining some extra signatures.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as the story reveals, <strong>Cassie\u2019s Law is to become LAW.<\/strong>*<\/p>\n<p>For those not aware of the story, Cassie McCord was 16 when she was hit by an 87-year old driver who mixed up his accelerator and brakes, flew on to a pavement, and crushed her against a wall. He had already been involved in an accident days earlier and had refused to surrender his licence. Police were powerless to do anything.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full story for yourselves, but this was great news to see. And we mustn\u2019t forget <a title=\"Elderly Maniacs \u2013 Something HAS To Be Done About Them\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=11022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the others who lost their lives due to elderly drivers<\/a> who shouldn\u2019t have been on the road.<\/p>\n<p>* the changes are not actually a change in the Law, but procedures have been put in place to get elderly and medically unfit drivers off the road quicker &#8211; something that would have saved Cassie\u2019s life if it had been in place sooner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader provided me with this link, which I hadn\u2019t seen &#8211; it\u2019s in today\u2019s Daily Mail. Readers will be aware that I ran a few articles on the Cassie\u2019s Law E-Petition. The petition closed last November, and I honestly thought that it had failed to gain enough support to be debated in Parliament. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,86,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}