Just under two years...................

[JohnP]

............................. in the nick for this... I would have given him 10 years and banned him from driving for life. He had his two kids in the car and when he eventually crashed into another car he tried to do a runner and left them.

 

[Terry]

I've have given the idiot a suspended sentence, from a rope

[GrahamNfk]

It upsets me that they breathe our air.

[JohnP]

What makes it even worse he was on drugs... the law is an a** and it's about time that punishments were handed out that fitted the crime.

[Leon]

should use him to clear land mines with his hands!!

[Korky]

A very, very stupid man who deserves to be punished - but I'm afraid some of the comments in this thread are a little too Daily Mail for my liking.

 

Korky

[David]

That is a disgrace. he is lucky not to have killed his kids and other innocent road users. Daily Mail like or not, I think that should be viewed as attempted manslaughter...OK maybe no such thing exists but he clearly knows how bad his actions were by running off to try and escape, and he had no regard for human life whatsoever!!!!

 

Now, deep breaths David...OK calmed down now

[JohnP]

There were two people in the car he collided with when driving through a red light, a 80 plus year old lady and her son who was driving. I'm not sure what their injuries were but they were both taken to hospital. I don't read the Daily Mail or any other rag for that matter, but if they agree with me then bully for them.

[colinb]

I assume he has a 2 year sentence? then I think that fair, don't see why I should pay for him to be behind bars longer than that. But I would give him a 3 year ban and make him retake his test, retaking your test doesn't come cheap especially if you're driving isn't' up to standard. As for any drug related crime that should be a separate judgement. 

[ChrisLumix]

I agree with the "lifetime driving ban" remarks. That would hurt him more than anything else.

[Guest]

he clearly cares nothing for the laws of the road so banning him from driving is pointless, just lock him up

[Jon]

I thought I read he was already banned from driving - so no insurance etc

 

Gawd knows what the answer to this type of thing is, and its a difficult thing to find any balance where the kids in the car are concerned, I would suspect, once again, that the drug habit is the root cause :-(

 

A shining example to his kids

[NannyFerret]

he clearly cares nothing for the laws of the road so banning him from driving is pointless, just lock him up

He clearly thinks nothing of his children, so I agree, lock him up and keep his children and other road users safe.

[ChrisLumix]

He clearly thinks nothing of his children, so I agree, lock him up and keep his children and other road users safe.

 

Rather than put us to the expense of keeping him under lock and key, I propose this radical solution instead:

 

1. Assuming the mother is still around, ban him from the family home for a period of time.

2. A lifetime ban from driving.

3. Commit him to a curfew bail hostel each night, for which he has to pay until he's worked off his sentence.