{"id":15918,"date":"2014-07-04T22:24:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T21:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=15918"},"modified":"2023-09-10T11:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T10:25:12","slug":"is-jack-powell-the-luckiest-man-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=15918","title":{"rendered":"Is Jack Powell The Luckiest Man On Earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This <a title=\"Driver Jack Powell given community order for causing crash which killed Kiri Jade Hodgkinson and Barbara Ford\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/news\/11321320.Community_order_for_driver_who_killed_teen_girl_and_pensioner_in_horror_crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">story beggars belief<\/a>. Jack Powell was 18, and had passed his test a mere two weeks earlier. He was busy following the script those of his kind live their lives by, and \u201clost control\u201d of his Renault Clio on a bend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as an aside, there is a massive statistical blip in the accident figures which explains why 17-24 year olds pay sky-high insurance premiums. The most common accident this group experiences is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>on a bend<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>at night<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>on a rural road<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>more than one occupant in the car<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>no other car involved<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In Powell\u2019s case, only the \u201cat night\u201d one was missing from his performance. Unfortunately, although no other car actually caused Powell to lose control, another car <strong>did<\/strong> bear the brunt of his pathetic driving skills after he\u2019d lost it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kiri Jade Hodgkinson, 14, was a front seat passenger in Powell\u2019s car. She died at the scene. Powell smashed into a Renault Megane travelling the opposite way and this resulted in the death of the passenger, Barbara Ford, 67. A 13-year old girl in the back seat of Powell\u2019s car broke both legs and an ankle. In any right-minded country, Powell would now be looking for ways to justify that he be allowed a PlayStation to while away the hours of a substantial jail sentence. Instead:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Today magistrates handed him a 12 month Community Order with 250 hours unpaid work. He was also given a nine month curfew and a five year disqualification from driving, with an order to have an extended retest before being allowed a return to driving.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Comments by the Police are notable for the absence of any indication that they are happy with this outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This rubbish driver has effectively got away with killing two people. They should have locked him up and thrown away the key. He&#8217;s effectively a killer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4532794719633406\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story beggars belief. Jack Powell was 18, and had passed his test a mere two weeks earlier. He was busy following the script those of his kind live their lives by, and \u201clost control\u201d of his Renault Clio on a bend. Just as an aside, there is a massive statistical blip in the accident [&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":[86,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/15918","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=15918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}