{"id":13379,"date":"2013-07-24T13:32:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T12:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=13379"},"modified":"2013-07-24T13:32:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T12:32:31","slug":"drink-driver-jailed-for-killing-passenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=13379","title":{"rendered":"Drink Driver Jailed For Killing Passenger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Pembridge, 22, was close to 3 times the legal limit and had traces of cocaine in his body<\/a> when he tried to drive away from a police car and crashed, killing Joshua Williams, 20, who was in the car with him.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t quite get my head around him being found guilty of \u201cdriving without due care and attention while over the prescribed alcohol limit\u201d. He was guilty of dangerous driving whilst pissed and whacked out of his skull at the very least. He\u2019s been jailed for 5 years.<\/p>\n

Pembridge\u2019s car was a Rover MGF convertible \u2013 just about the most classic pratmobile available (apart from a Corsa or any model of Audi). Even without alcohol he was an accident waiting to happen. Naturally, everyone is crowing about Joshua Williams and how nice he was, great sportsman, and so on. He was still a willing passenger in that car at 4 o\u2019clock in the morning, and was quite possibly as drunk as Pembridge \u2013 that accident could, and does, happen to far too many young drivers who think they\u2019re brilliant when, like Pembridge, they absolutely are not.<\/p>\n

The solution is a curfew and strict controls on carrying passengers. And mandatory black boxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adam Pembridge, 22, was close to 3 times the legal limit and had traces of cocaine in his body when he tried to drive away from a police car and crashed, killing Joshua Williams, 20, who was in the car with him. I can\u2019t quite get my head around him being found guilty of \u201cdriving […]<\/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-13379","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\/13379","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=13379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}