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Thread: Bentley driver gets 56 day ban. Biker gets 12 months jail

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    Bentley driver gets 56 day ban. Biker gets 12 months jail


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    sentencing is in line with the risk he posed to other road users, surely you would rather a 2 ton bently crash into you than a 200kg motorbike
    wouldn't you?

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    In the UK it would probably cost more to insure the Hyabusa than the Bentley. The Bentley driver is obviously some sort of cheapskate so they let him off for being underprivileged.
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    if you read the comments there were some significant differences between the cases

    mainly the biker was charged with dangerous driving, whereas the driver was only in trouble for the speeding (apparently the biker was speeding on a single carriageway - which i presume means one lane each way - and overtaking on blind corners etc)

    seems its not just mainstream media that likes to slant things to their liking
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    He might have avoided jail if he had dropped his attitude.

    http://www.bikeweardirect.co.uk/inde...:blog&Itemid=5
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    Quote Originally Posted by Forest View Post
    He might have avoided jail if he had dropped his attitude.

    http://www.bikeweardirect.co.uk/inde...:blog&Itemid=5
    No charge for the policeman chasing at that speed, despite his holier than thou attitude. So, can't have been attitude..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Forest View Post
    He might have avoided jail if he had dropped his attitude.

    http://www.bikeweardirect.co.uk/inde...:blog&Itemid=5
    Gosh, who wrote that article, it's quite poorly written. Some sentences I had to re-read a couple of times to get what it was trying to say!
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    Think I'll buy a Bentley then.


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    guess hes better off than the guy in america who was the car driver and was put to death recently while the person who committed the crime got life in prison

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    Yikes, biker boy sounded like a bit of a handful then didn't he? If you get caught then its your own stupid fault.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Forest View Post
    He might have avoided jail if he had dropped his attitude.

    http://www.bikeweardirect.co.uk/inde...:blog&Itemid=5
    Now he can't get out of Jail and has to drop his pants.

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