{"id":7469,"date":"2011-12-22T18:24:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T18:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7469"},"modified":"2011-12-22T18:24:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T18:24:26","slug":"learner-driver-kills-girl-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7469","title":{"rendered":"Learner Driver Kills Girl, 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw this in today\u2019s newspapers \u2013 this version is from The Telegraph<\/a>. A learner driver has been convicted and jailed for 2 years for killing a 9-year-old girl after losing control during her first time driving a car.<\/p>\n

Beatrice Mawamba, 34, was described as \u201cprofoundly ignorant\u201d about motoring and didn\u2019t even know what the brake pedal did, according to the judge. As well as killing Shamirah Grant, she injured two other children \u2013 one of them seriously.<\/p>\n

Mawamba was being \u201ctaught\u201d by her husband. Initially, according to the version of the story in printed edition of The Sun, he was also charged with the same offence as his wife, but the case was dropped. Apparently, the husband was telling Mawamba to brake as they raced towards the children\u2026 but she didn\u2019t know how to do that!<\/p>\n

The dead girl\u2019s parents have \u201cforgiven those present in the car\u2026 We appreciate that such a terrible event was not intentional.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to remember that last part, because neither of the Mawambas did this on purpose, nor was it anything specifically to do with their ethnicity (something certain \u201cexpert commentators\u201d on some web forums have been quick to latch on to). The route they had chosen<\/a> for the wife to learn to drive is one that probably millions of others have selected over the years, and one that is likely to become ever more popular given the current economic climate.<\/p>\n

However, the tragic events involved clearly show what a huge responsibility it is both learning to drive\u2026 and teaching someone to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw this in today\u2019s newspapers \u2013 this version is from The Telegraph. A learner driver has been convicted and jailed for 2 years for killing a 9-year-old girl after losing control during her first time driving a car. Beatrice Mawamba, 34, was described as \u201cprofoundly ignorant\u201d about motoring and didn\u2019t even know what the […]<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80,86,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t