Woman, 60, jailed after causing ‘wonderful’ dad-of-three’s death with braking error on busy road

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/woman-60-jailed-after-causing-34194334

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10 comments

  1. Time to unsub from r/uknews

    Hadn’t been any real news here for a while anyways.

  2. By the sounds of it this wasn’t an “error, ” rather she deliberately hit the brakes for whatever obnoxious reason that went through her head.

    Maybe he was too close, annoying yes, but absolutely no excuse to cause a major accident with an idiotic retaliation.

    She deserves her sentance.

  3. So, to everyone who thinks brake checking a car is a consequence free way of acting out your aggression fantasies on the road, look where it could get you.

  4. I can never understand why this isn’t treated as Murder.

  5. You’d think at 60 she’d be too old and chill to be this vindictive, but nah…

  6. I was always under the impression that it’s the driver behind responsibility to leave enough room to break?

  8. Brake checks. Kills a guy. 40 months in prison (likely serves 2 years). Driving is a privilege not a right, if we’re handing out pathetic sentences for causing the death of someone whilst driving, especially when the act was intentional or likely to cause harm- for the love of god ban them from driving for good.

  10. When someone is tailgating you, there are two options.

    1) if there is a car in front of you: slow down (not sharply or aggressively) sufficiently so as to increase the distance between yourself and the car ahead. This way, if the car ahead needs to stop suddenly, and legitimately, you have more space to brake gradually so as not to be rear ended, saving yourself whiplash.

    2) if the road is clear ahead, drive as normal like nothing is happening, but go easier round corners. Playing games with a tailgater isn’t going to suddenly enlighten them, so just act as normal and with your safety in mind. Maybe they’ll just overtake, maybe they’ll get bored and back off, but maybe they’ll keep at it. Either way, they won’t be there forever.

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