Nothing changes...........Older drivers

[Bud the Baker]

Road safety campaigners call for anti-speeding system in all new cars

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-42051612

[Guest TPAFKATS]

Road safety campaigners call for anti-speeding system in all new cars
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-42051612

Oh ffs

[Bud the Baker]

Sleeping driver jailed for A9 death crash

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-42166016

The driver deserves his sentence, no argument from me there, but what about his employer - there must be some degree of corporate responsibility.

There are regulations for lorry drivers but if this guy was regularly driving 14 hours a day his employers must've known and been looking the other way.

[Guest TPAFKATS]

Sleeping driver jailed for A9 death crash
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-42166016
The driver deserves his sentence, no argument from me there, but what about his employer - there must be some degree of corporate responsibility.
There are regulations for lorry drivers but if this guy was regularly driving 14 hours a day his employers must've known and been looking the other way.

Prosecution under health and safety legislation would've been an option. Crown office mibees didn't want to do so n case it affected the prosecution of the driver?

[oaksoft]

9 hours ago, Bud the Baker said:

Sleeping driver jailed for A9 death crash

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-42166016

The driver deserves his sentence, no argument from me there, but what about his employer - there must be some degree of corporate responsibility.

There are regulations for lorry drivers but if this guy was regularly driving 14 hours a day his employers must've known and been looking the other way.

He guy was self employed. He had no "employer".

The buck stops with him.

He shouldn't have been driving those sorts of hours.

End of story.

Edited November 29, 2017 by oaksoft

[faraway saint]

This thread is 8 years old and nothing has changed. 

Still  mainly a self policing system and people are dying. 

I've had both eyes operated on within the last 3 months as an eye test detected that a tear had developed that required surgery. 

So no driving for six weeks after each op and improved eyesight for the immediate future. 

The government are complicit by standing idely by while families mourn the needless death of loved ones. 

 

[faraway saint]

At the opposite end of the scale the government, again, are sitting by while teenagers die on the roads. 

Canada, for one has introduced, some time ago, restrictions on 17-19 year olds which has reduced the number of deaths by over an astounding 80%.

What's stopping the government making fairly simple steps to save peoples lives? 

Edited April 20 by faraway saint