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Went into the back of a BMW, how do I deal with this?
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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?0 -
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.0 -
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:
I wouldn't fancy dodging the lorries on the M25 with that.0 -
BeenThroughItAll wrote: »Can you actually point to ANY documented case of someone being jailed for reaching for a sweet?
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;););):DHornetSaver 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.0 -
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.0 -
You've just lost any sympathy you had from me.applepicker wrote: »Also, was checking something on the phone when I hit the guyIf someone is nice to you but rude to the waiter, they are not a nice person.0 -
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 claim0
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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 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 claimIf someone is nice to you but rude to the waiter, they are not a nice person.0 -
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.0 -
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 differentSam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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