it drives me :mad: the way foriegn drivers get away with being morons in this country! :rant::rant:

 

that potuguese driver just got 3 years for killing 6 members of 1 family!

quote "i may have taken my eyes off the road to look at my 19inch screen to check where is was going"

BULLSH*T!!!

 

we have sat-nav so do they but they're so busy watching films that they dont bother to watch the roads!

 

so now its as good as legal for them to come over here and take our lives as well as our jobs!!

 

:rant: him living it up in our prison for a year and a half wont bring back that poor family and wont repair the damage it has caused to their relatives!

 

I am so sick of the way this country has just bowed down to europe and allowed them to walk all over us!

 

the government is useless the court system is useless and as long as you are not a british citizen you CAN get away with murder!

 

:hurl::hurl::hurl:

To be fair I don't think the fact he's foreign should come into it.

To be fair I don't think the fact he's foreign should come into it.

 

exactly, everyone should be treated equally.

yes it not his fault hes foreign

 

but the courts wouldnt let someone from here get away with just three years for killing 6 people!

 

the court system is wrong because they dont treat others the same as us!

hi yassa

i used to live in sittingbourne

just down the road from you lol

lol, nice random comment :rofl:

oh yes i very random:rofl:

you kill 6 people and get 3 years, with time served will be out next year! something is wrong:mad:

 

dan.

While I'd be the first to criticise the government I think our justice system's pretty good. I think you'd struggle to find a better one anywhere in the world.

 

The punishment fits the crime, not the consequences. I imagine the sentence is for dangerous driving or similar not multiple murder / manslaughter.

 

I'd be amazed if the defendent's nationality was an issue at all.

 

But I don't know all the facts so I could be wrong.

yes they said released in 1 year 4 months i think it was

so if your planing to murder anyone then kill them in a lorry/car and at the most you will get 5 years not life! :confused:

 

dan.

yup

so if your planing to murder anyone then kill them in a lorry/car and at the most you will get 5 years not life! :confused:

 

dan.

 

Errrr no! Cos that is PLANNING to kill someone - that guy did not PLAN on going out and killing 6 people, it was an accident ;)

Errrr no! Cos that is PLANNING to kill someone - that guy did not PLAN on going out and killing 6 people, it was an accident ;)

 

Exactly, accidents do happen and it could happen to anyone.

Errrr no! Cos that is PLANNING to kill someone - that guy did not PLAN on going out and killing 6 people, it was an accident ;)

 

ok so your out one night and some drunk starts up, you get into a fight you push him out the way he falls smashes his head open and dies "it was a accident" bet you will get more than 3 years!

 

dan.:)

ok so your out one night and some drunk starts up, you get into a fight you push him out the way he falls smashes his head open and dies "it was a accident" bet you will get more than 3 years!

 

dan.:)

 

LOL i aint a solicitor or judge and i have'nt ever been on jury duty so i'll pass on your pop quiz ;) I was merely responding to your post which was incorrect :)

 

Isaac :duffer:

Exactly, accidents do happen and it could happen to anyone.

 

but if your driving a 40 ton lorry down a busy road while looking at your laptop!

 

dan.:(

but if your driving a 40 ton lorry down a busy road while looking at your laptop!

 

dan.:(

 

To be fair you are just thinking up different scenarios now :mac1:

MINIMUM MURDER SENTENCES

 

*Confessing at earliest opportunity - 10 years

*Pleading guilty at trial - 11 years and three months

*Changing plea to guilty - 13 years and six months

*Maintaining innocence - 15 years

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3671752.stm

To be fair you are just thinking up different scenarios now :mac1:

 

i just dont agree with it being a accident, sorry.

 

dan.

i drive a lorry for a living and when these lorries go passed they are not looking at directions on the laptops they are watching films!

 

the point is that 3 years is not enough for someone who has wiped out an entire family!

if i did it i would expect to be sent down for no less than 10 years and thats probably what i'd get!!

 

mind you i could do with the rest lol

less accident more stupidity me thinks

less accident more stupidity me thinks

 

agreed

If it was an British driver though, non of you would be so wound up - lets be honest here...

 

From the BBC site

 

Andrew Thomas QC, prosecuting, had told the jury there was a possibility that at the time of the crash Da Silva was using a global positioning system on his laptop computer to work out an alternative route

 

Its not fact - there is a possibility....

 

However, the family died when their silver people carrier burst into flames after it was involved in a five-vehicle pile-up between junctions 16 and 17 on the M6.

 

What happened to the other car drivers and passangers?? Maybe if the family's driver was also paying attention, it could of been less of a disaster than what it turned out to be......

 

 

 

Im not sticking up for him, Im just saying that WE do not know the facts, so we are in NO position to judge.

i drive a lorry for a living and when these lorries go passed they are not looking at directions on the laptops they are watching films!

 

the point is that 3 years is not enough for someone who has wiped out an entire family!

if i did it i would expect to be sent down for no less than 10 years and thats probably what i'd get!!

 

mind you i could do with the rest lol

 

you should be watchin where your goin instead of peering into the other cab:nono:

sorry but i would expect the same response from people if it had been me that did it!

and i would be willing to take the punishment i deserved!