{"id":5090,"date":"2011-02-21T15:55:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T15:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2011-02-21T15:55:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T15:55:12","slug":"car-seller-jailed-for-test-drive-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5090","title":{"rendered":"Car Seller Jailed For Test Drive Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a nasty story from the BBC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"The23-year old Nathan Morris of Tenby was selling a car – a Peugeot hatchback – and Gavin Collier (20)\u00a0went to look at it. Morris took the car out with Collier as the passenger to test drive it and crashed into a parked car whilst travelling at “up to 75mph in a 50mph zone”.<\/p>\n

Gavin Collier died as a result.<\/p>\n

The car had a faulty shock absorber, which Morris had been warned about on his MOT test. Morris told police he was only doing 50mph.<\/p>\n

The judge pointed out that the defect would have made controlling the car on the bend more difficult at the “grossly excessive”\u00a0speeds Morris was travelling at.<\/p>\n

He was jailed for 4 years at Swansea Crown Court (earlier BBC report here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Gavin Collier’s father said:<\/p>\n

While nothing will ever bring Gavin back, his family hopes his death has not been entirely in vain.<\/p>\n

We hope it will act as a warning to others of the tragic consequences that can result from dangerous and irresponsible driving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I just have one worry. As long as teenagers and young adults\u00a0share the attitude demonstrated by Morris and are not pulled up for it by\u00a0their parents\u00a0– and let’s not kid ourselves: a great many youngsters are like this – then it is just another episode in a never-ending story.<\/p>\n

EDIT 26\/2\/2011:<\/strong> The Western Telegraph has a comment<\/a> on this story (you can ignore the idiotic comment someone has left).<\/p>\n

I’d just like to point out something. In the past, I have had model pupils. They’ve learned quickly, been high achievers at school, come from stable and loving families… as many sickly-sweet cliches as you can imagine.<\/p>\n

One of them – probably the most likeable, and least likely to transgress – regularly drove at speeds up to 70mph in 30mph zones (according to his girlfriend, whom I subsequently taught). He was 17.<\/p>\n

Another waved at me as she drove past me a couple of weeks ago. She wasn’t driving at the 20mph speed limit, of that I’m certain. She probably wasn’t consciously aware she was doing it. She was early 20s.<\/p>\n

Another I know has had a crash at traffic lights. Apparently it wasn’t his fault – but several weeks before I saw him doing well over 30mph near to his house. He was 17.<\/p>\n

Another passed his test one morning. He was insured and driving within an hour. Within 2 hours he had driven to McDonalds with a car full of mates (I was giving one of them a lesson that afternoon, and they rolled up while I was waiting). He was 17.<\/p>\n

Another overtook me at traffic lights and honked me and waved. She was accelerating hard. She was early 20s.<\/p>\n

I’m fairly sure all their parents were absolutely certain they would never do anything like that…\u00a0And\u00a0if they’re looking at buying pratmobiles – no matter how much they “like” cars – alarm bells should be ringing very loudly indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a nasty story from the BBC website. 23-year old Nathan Morris of Tenby was selling a car – a Peugeot hatchback – and Gavin Collier (20)\u00a0went to look at it. Morris took the car out with Collier as the passenger to test drive it and crashed into a parked car whilst travelling at […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related"],"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\/5090","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=5090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}