‘Accidents don’t happen, they are caused’: Driver who knocked down and killed motorcyclist avoids jail
by Willing-Departure115
‘Accidents don’t happen, they are caused’: Driver who knocked down and killed motorcyclist avoids jail
by Willing-Departure115
27 comments
Shall we play “guess the judge” – if I added a hint, he didn’t even take the guys driving license off him.
What a joke, a paltry fine and he didn’t even lose his licence. He killed a man due to carelessness and a oh well these things happen from the judge. You must be laughing if you commit a crime and end up in front of Nolan in court.
No incentive to drive safely because there’s no enforcement. If you’re “unlucky” enough to do something like kill another person, you won’t need to worry too much about the consequences either, there will be none.
Gangland world have been missing a trick using guns to kill each other when all they had to do was drive around their rivals locality and run over them.
“veered onto the wrong side of the road while coming around a bend on a regional road”
The amount of people doing this shit is unreal. Even in towns where they can see the traffic coming they refuse to just stay on their side of the road. This is just one example of the terrible driving habits, and lack of skill on Irish roads. Irish drivers are becoming incompetent and the government is doing nothing about it. Telling people to just slow down only makes them slightly less dangerous.
I think it’s crazy you can literally kill someone with a car and not get jail, and I don’t even like how prison horny this sub is. Not sure why this sort of sentencing gets so much less focus than sentencing that gets actual time without someone dying.
Judge Martin Nolan strikes again
I said it before, and I’ll say it again.
The car is the best murder weapon
Normally there’s a degree of ignorance from cyclists/motorcyclists about how their behaviour contributes to these incidents but there’s just no excusing the driver here.
A fine of €1000 and nothing else?! Not even losing his licence.
I don’t know how he can live with himself. The judge too.
Terrible outcome. He deserves jail and disqualification, people shouldn’t be allowed drive on the wrong side of the road and kill someone with almost impunity.
We need the details of collisions to be made public ASAP after they occur. Some people hearing of the outcome of taking a bend badly might be more cautious themselves on bends. We’re all too quick to declare road fatalities and injuries as the result of speed, we need to be more aware they’re often the result of stupidity and lack of due care.
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There’s probably been another fatal collision between a truck and a child on a bike a couple of hours ago in Glenageary. Noting this to see if *that* driver gets any repercussions ~~next year~~3 years from now.
If you want to kill someone in the country just run them over sober and you’ll be unlucky If you serve time at all
Unfortunately, until the state gets tough with the people causing these deaths by dangerous driving, they will keep happening.
Absolute insult to the family.
The judiciary needs to take a long, hard look at itself.
If I ever become a hitman, I’d definitely take a car as weapon…
Whoopsie, accident…
To kill someone in this country and avoid jail all you have to do is get behind the wheel of a car
We need to get past this idea that driving is a right and realise it’s a privilege and get dangerous drivers off the road, we need to have the law remind us that cars are potentially lethal weapons and are not toys. This is a societal problem where the blame is always being shifted towards the victims, but the issue is I think that we see too much of ourselves in the perpetrators and far too many people know they occasionally take unnecessary risks when driving which could result in a death.
Today I’m seeing a lot of corroborating rumours that a child was killed on their bike in south Dublin because a skip lorry jumped a red, and the way things are, I can only assume that the driver will see a minimal sentence for this.
This is really sad for that family.
I read the article and to me the details dont really add up, I had to re read it again and I see no mention of phones being checked maybe I missed it? I find it hard to beleive you just cut a corner for no reason. even if you are going under the speed limit there are plent of corners in a 80kph zone you need to take very slowly on small roads as they are blind and tight. Kind of sounds the corner was taken at inaproproate speeds and it was cut or to busy looking at the phone/ info tainment system.
There’s a petition for Judge Nolan’s resignation online that has 50k signatures.
I think I found the drivers twitter account: https://twitter.com/BackHive/with_replies
Come to your own conclusions about it.
I cannot think of any other circumstance where you can end the life of another person and it has the same consequences as not paying your tv licence.
Can we demand the government remove a particular judge? How do we deal with this kind of situation?
What a fucking joke, the RSA are trying to setup some bullshit scheme to have 0 road deaths by 2030 yet this fucker walks free with his license? If this fella was 20 he’d have been off the road and in prison. Yet this old cunts insurance probably won’t even go up
Judge Nolan is not fit to be involved in any area of the law. He disgusts me. I dunno how that muppet sleeps at night.
Is it just me, or does almost every heinous criminal get off light these days!!? Some serious offenses and reduced sentence or virtually no penalty! Help me understand better friends.
Judge Martin Fucking Nolan.
EVERY single time you see a court ruling that causes your soul to shudder in your body, it turns out it’s that prick.
Kill someone – Fine
Caught with a plant – Jail
Justice 👄