Safety Engineer wrote:
I am somewhat worried at the way this looks on face value, I lost my fiance several years ago to a drunk driver, he had a history of drunk driving, but had been given the minimum penalties for his offences as he was a HGV driver an relied on his licence for his livelyhood.
This particular incident he had been drinking, climbed into his lorry and plowed into the side of a car, my fiance was a passenger and died 20 minutes later, her friend driving was killed outright.
He was fined and given a three month ban, judge told him that he escaped a stronger sentance as he wasn't speeding !
Very sorry to hear that, but surely if convicted of drink-driving there is a minimum one year ban.
It's always difficult to comment on individual cases without being in full possession of the facts, but on the face of it that sounds like an example of "causing death by careless driving while under the influence of drink" which potentially carries a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
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