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Hit-n-Run - You'll want to punch the screen

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  • Wig
    Wig Posts: 14,139 Forumite
    edited 16 July 2011 at 10:53AM
    inkiboo wrote: »
    For those who want to know, her name is <SNIP>

    You had better be 100% sure that is the right name. You could find yourself in a lot of hot water for saying something like that.

    One of the google results was a post from you on Piston heads where someone has also asked you how you know this is the right name.

    It doesn't look like that would be her name from the video.
  • sarahg1969
    sarahg1969 Posts: 6,694 Forumite
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    Wig wrote: »
    You had better be 100% sure that is the right name. You could find yourself in a lot of hot water for saying something like that.

    It doesn't look like that would be her name from the video.

    Well, Rubia Hamid was in court for sentencing on that date. So she's definitely done something. I can only imagine that someone has phoned the court, and obtained details of the convictions of the couple of women who were sentenced that day.
  • mikey72
    mikey72 Posts: 14,680 Forumite
    sarahg1969 wrote: »
    Well, Rubia Hamid was in court for sentencing on that date. So she's definitely done something. I can only imagine that someone has phoned the court, and obtained details of the convictions of the couple of women who were sentenced that day.

    Do you have a link to that, I couldn't find it?
  • sarahg1969
    sarahg1969 Posts: 6,694 Forumite
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    mikey72 wrote: »
    Do you have a link to that, I couldn't find it?

    It's in the court list I posted on the previous page.
  • Wig
    Wig Posts: 14,139 Forumite
    edited 16 July 2011 at 11:17AM
    To be devils advocate, I'm just wondering if considering these factors....
    the sun being low on the horizon,
    the pedestrian emerging from behind a car/bollards and
    coming out of the shaded area,
    her speed
    The point of impact being the nearside headlamp area, not a full frontal.

    She may well have not seen him and did not at any point see him
    and may have heard the noise but assumed the noise was her going over a bump/over the crossing.

    I'd like to know what her testimony was and I think it's possible she genuinely did not know.
  • Wig
    Wig Posts: 14,139 Forumite
    sarahg1969 wrote: »
    Well, Rubia Hamid was in court for sentencing on that date. So she's definitely done something. I can only imagine that someone has phoned the court, and obtained details of the convictions of the couple of women who were sentenced that day.

    That still would not be proof.

    But maybe they have read the Times Online, in which case they really should quote the Times Online. I wouldn't say it unless I had read the Times article with my own eyes.
  • sarahg1969
    sarahg1969 Posts: 6,694 Forumite
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    Wig wrote: »
    That still would not be proof.

    But maybe they have read the Times Online, in which case they really should quote the Times Online. I wouldn't say it unless I had read the Times article with my own eyes.

    Of course. Maybe the person who posted it on here hasn't read the article or the other forums, but has spoken to the court? Who knows?
  • mikey72
    mikey72 Posts: 14,680 Forumite
    sarahg1969 wrote: »
    It's in the court list I posted on the previous page.


    There's no details on that case on the website though.
    Nothing in the search by name or case.
  • sarahg1969
    sarahg1969 Posts: 6,694 Forumite
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    mikey72 wrote: »
    There's no details on that case on the website though.
    Nothing in the search by name or case.


    I have registered with the site, so it let me look at archived listings.

    I don't know if they only update their sentencing reports occasionally, but I've looked for quite a lot of names on there previously and not found them. Maybe they only list reported cases? Or maybe they only list more serious cases? Maybe they don't update the site regularly with completed cases? I honestly don't know. She was in the list for sentencing on that date, though.
  • Wig
    Wig Posts: 14,139 Forumite
    Phoning the court would only flag up a dangerous driving conviction, there may have been more then one on that day, the video could have the court date wrong. Very risky unless you are sure.
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