by Freeman & Co. | Aug 11, 2019 | Cycling, Dangerous Driving, Motoring Law Expert
The Department for Transport is considering new charges for “death by dangerous cycling” or “death by careless cycling” under government proposals to be examined in a new 12-week consultation launched this week. The proposals are already...
by Freeman & Co. | Aug 10, 2018 | Dangerous Driving, Drink Driving, Motoring Law Expert, Motoring Offences
A Judge in Maidstone has jailed a man for two years after he seriously injured two other motorists in a drink driving accident. The 22-year-old warehouse worker had downed half a bottle of vodka, plus another four shots of it, and two pints of beer before starting his...
by Freeman & Co. | Aug 8, 2018 | Dangerous Driving, Drink Driving, Motoring Law Expert, Motoring Offences, Speeding
A woman who killed her six-year-old daughter and fiance in a drink driving crash has been jailed for two years. Nottingham Crown Court heard that the 24-year-old Derbyshire woman was almost twice the legal drink driving limit when she ploughed into a stone wall in...
by Freeman & Co. | Aug 5, 2018 | Dangerous Driving, Driving Offences, Drug Driving, Motoring Law Expert, Motoring Offences
A woman who killed two men in a horrific crash in Cambridgeshire was drug driving at the time of the incident, had no driving license, and had never had a driving lesson, Ipswich Crown Court has heard. The 33-year-old was driving on the wrong side of the road, at a...
by Freeman & Co. | Aug 3, 2018 | Dangerous Driving, Drink Driving, Driving Offences, Motoring Law Expert, Motoring Offences
A 27-year-old man has been jailed for more than five years after he mowed down a cyclist while drink driving, and then fled the scene. The prosecution told Southampton Crown Court that the man drove off after knocking his 32-year-old victim off his bike, knowing that...
by Freeman & Co. | Jul 29, 2018 | Dangerous Driving, Drink Driving, Driving Offences, Motoring Law Expert, Motoring Offences
A 49-year-old drink driving trucker has been jailed for 12 weeks after he was spotted by a fellow lorry driver going the wrong way down a Peterborough parkway. The man was three times the legal limit and driving at 5mph when the other lorry driver saw the lorry...
