The Director of Public Prosecutions appealed the leniency of the sentence to the Court of Appeal. The Court has upheld the original sentence.
The sentence includes a five year driving ban, only one year longer than the minimum ban for this type of offence, which means McMenamin will be back on the road in four years (or possibly sooner if his past actions are anything to go by).
Our courts system is repeatedly failing the victims of road violence.
#CarSpreading is something that has alarmed me for a few years now.
I live on a congested terraced inner city street. My kids are coming of age where they want to walk to school alone…but daily I see incidents of cars the size of small tanks that terrify me. They mount pavements, park on double yellows and block the sight lines of crossings.
How can cars continue to get wider by an average of 1cm every 2 years?
https://bettertransport.org.uk/blog/why-suvs-are-a-big-problem/
World Road and Courtesy Day: kudos to the children who donned the uniform to raise awareness about safety and courteous driving. A great initiative reminding us that respect on the road starts from a young age! #Courtesy #RoadSafety #Photography #May5
D'oh! Just shows that there are multiple generations in #England who seem to think they can pick and choose what #traffic laws they obey (especially white English folk in semi rural areas, those who are PoC and/or live in towns/suburbs are more wary of ANPR and monthly checks)
More worrying initial vehicle pulled was a flatbed van, is the whole #familybusiness ignoring rules and regulations?
“For children, the risk was even greater: a child hit by an SUV or LTV was 82 per cent more likely to die than one struck by a passenger car, with the risk increasing to 130 per cent among children under the age of 10.”
#cycling #biketooter #activetravel #waroncars #RoadSafety
https://road.cc/content/news/cyclists-44-cent-more-likely-be-killed-suvs-313839
Daft lad at the start, why the fuck keep a live #dashcam running when you are openly committing #driving offences? Interesting insight into the #ANPR and #surveillance capabilities of the #Police (looks like #Cleartone kit with the old skool DOS font overlay)
New #Research on #congestion and #roadsafety:
Recurrent patterns in the application of traffic impact analyses: Safety first or last?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Strap in, folks, we bout to challenge some norms.
Recurrent patterns in the appl...
#activetravel #RoadSafety #UK #London #BBC
“Most rational people support #cycling. It’s just the vocal minority and the media who are inexplicably anti-#cycling”
"Getting people to hate each other is a core of #British news media on TV, on the radio, and in print”
"I drive all the time, I cycle all the time, I want a space where my kids can feel safe out on the road, and the core question of this call-in should be about how we create that space and that culture” https://road.cc/content/news/bbc-asks-sympathy-cyclists-wearing-thin-313795
“We need [road] design for our most vulnerable – children and older people – and then it will be safer for everyone.”
-Niamh O’Reilly, lecturer in geospatial surveying at TU Dublin, researching cycling safety in Dublin.
@TheJournal here, burying the lede..
https://www.thejournal.ie/truck-safety-vision-6677949-Apr2025/
Tesla stock jumped Friday because Trump's Department of Transportation scrapped some safety regulations that were preventing approval of Tesla's Full Self Driving.
I hope prospective buyers learn this fact and extract its key implication: "Elon admits that Tesla's Full Self Driving is unsafe and unfixable".
Unless #dogs in #Sussex are now #joyriding the family vehicles, it really does look like someone has beef or a bone to pick with this #dogfood #business - the crashed vehicle clearly has a dog guard in the back of it , and the road layout doesn't look /that/ bad that this sort of #collision would happen "by accident" #crime #RoadSafety #UK
D'oh! Not a good idea to do that in the middle of #Southend anyway, even less so when there's a fat copper in hi vis *immediately behind you* (even in a plain car the #Roads #Policing Unit #officers have to wear uniform to prove they are actual old bill and not some random walt who bought blue lights off Ebay). I guess he doesn't look in the rear mirror much..
The lad also failed a #drugs test so is likely to get a 1 year #driving ban
https://www.europesays.com/uk/52331/ Speed limits to be cut in 'many' more London streets in £87m road safety push – London Evening Standard #Business #CycleLanes #RoadSafety #SadiqKhan #TransportForLondon #UK #UnitedKingdom
“Cyclists who kill pedestrians could be jailed for life under new law in England and Wales.” Let’s hope this also applies to e scooters. Silent and deadly. #RoadSafety #Walking
I commented somewhere recently that it's unfair to run a town without useful public transport because it encourages people to drive when they shouldn't and harm themselves and others.
Now we see that NHS staff fatigue combines with a lack of public transport to kill them, and others, on the roads.
Not running useful transport at all hospital shift changes is very cruel.
the taxpayers will have to pick up the cost of all of this - several high end #police vehicles needing to be replaced, officers off sick for months whilst they recover (they may even decide to quit RPU so the investment in their training is lost) #NHS costs to treat them, #NationalHighways clearing up the road and the disruption of one of the main routes up North being locked up for a few hours #RoadSafety #England
No one comes out smelling of roses here - some of the supposedly highly trained Roads Policing #officers clearly got "red mist" and caused the collision *after* other units had already safely stopped the offender, but the gym-bro lad shouldn't have been #driving at all (no insurance) and its surprising he didn't get remanded in custody for flouting an interim ban just days after the incident. >>
"irregular cargo" - how even did anyone think that was a good idea, and acceptable on the public roads? If the driver has the correct licence to drive the #lorry, then they could just as easily have hired a more suitable vehicle to transport the broken down #van
While working on the fatbike I finally got around to adding reflective tape to my 'new' POC helmet. It was a black and white pattern which made me think it was designed for invisibility. Not my fave way to be on roads! Now it glows like a beacon :-)
#BikeTooter #RoadSafety #Bike #eBike #POC
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