Went into the back of a BMW, how do I deal with this?

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  • BeenThroughItAll
    BeenThroughItAll Posts: 5,018 Forumite
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    HornetSaver wrote: »
    To follow on from this discussion about careless or reckless driving, people can be (and have been) been jailed for things as innocuous as reaching for a sweet, where the result of doing so was dangerous driving.

    The golden rule is very simple. If you cannot do something without focussing 100% on driving, you cannot legally do it whilst driving.

    Can you actually point to ANY documented case of someone being jailed for reaching for a sweet?
  • HornetSaver
    HornetSaver Posts: 3,732 Forumite
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    BeenThroughItAll wrote: »
    Can you actually point to ANY documented case of someone being jailed for reaching for a sweet?

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1490329.stm

    In the interests of saving several back-and-forths, I'll reiterate the entire phrase I used.
    people can be (and have been) been jailed for things as innocuous as reaching for a sweet, where the result of doing so was dangerous driving.
  • Kim_kim
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    thescouselander wrote: »
    I'm not sure about that idea, the last time the government picked a car for the population we ended up with this:

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    I wouldn't fancy dodging the lorries on the M25 with that.
  • Mercdriver
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    BeenThroughItAll wrote: »
    Can you actually point to ANY documented case of someone being jailed for reaching for a sweet?

    Owned: ;);););):D
    HornetSaver wrote: »
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1490329.stm

    In the interests of saving several back-and-forths, I'll reiterate the entire phrase I used.
  • Fat_Walt
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    HornetSaver wrote: »
    To follow on from this discussion about careless or reckless driving, people can be (and have been) been jailed for things as innocuous as reaching for a sweet, where the result of doing so was dangerous driving.

    The golden rule is very simple. If you cannot do something without focussing 100% on driving, you cannot legally do it whilst driving.
    BeenThroughItAll wrote: »
    Can you actually point to ANY documented case of someone being jailed for reaching for a sweet?

    Fair play he's done you there.

    He was wrong when he said you can be jailed for reckless driving. It's been replaced with dangerous.
  • Richard53
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    applepicker wrote: »
    Also, was checking something on the phone when I hit the guy
    You've just lost any sympathy you had from me.
    If someone is nice to you but rude to the waiter, they are not a nice person.
  • arcon5
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    If he did sign some kind of paperwork you made up, the odds are it wouldn't stand up in court anyway if he's making a PI claim
  • Richard53
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    arcon5 wrote: »
    If he did sign some kind of paperwork you made up, the odds are it wouldn't stand up in court anyway if he's making a PI claim
    Absolutely. Your right to claim for injuries in an accident is a right that, by law, you cannot sign away. That's why so many so-called 'disclaimers' are not worth the paper they are written on.
    If someone is nice to you but rude to the waiter, they are not a nice person.
  • HornetSaver
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    Fat_Walt wrote: »
    Fair play he's done you there.

    He was wrong when he said you can be jailed for reckless driving. It's been replaced with dangerous.

    When actually talking about going to jail I said dangerous.

    Besides, the only ways I can think of in which you can be a dangerous driver without being reckless are if you suddenly develop an uncontrollable car, of if you suddenly develop a medical condition which affects your driving (I leave that open-ended as that could include a severe coughing fit). There are millions of other dangerous things you can do, but every single one of them involves breaking a rule, law or section of the Highway Code that you should know about.
  • Nasqueron
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    HornetSaver wrote: »
    To follow on from this discussion about careless or reckless driving, people can be (and have been) been jailed for things as innocuous as reaching for a sweet, where the result of doing so was dangerous driving.

    The golden rule is very simple. If you cannot do something without focussing 100% on driving, you cannot legally do it whilst driving.

    Certainly an interesting case though "reaching for a sweet" is misleading as it makes it sound like he was just grabbing something from a tin in the car.

    In the wording of that article he was not reaching for a sweet but rather "searching" in the pockets of a jacket draped across the passenger seat which is a lot different
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