Police charge woman stranded for two days after crash

[Bandit Rider]

No commonsense anymore - might have to stand up and take responsibility for a good judgment call, much easier to quote the rule book.

[Mom]

My point was that it was unlikely she was careless with her old dear in car....could have been another reason she lost control..........we are all human so I am sure the accident itself was enough of a lesson to learn by eh?

The saddest thing about this is........it does not matter what the extenuating circumstances were.......the cops dont seem to use any discretion at all.......apparently they cant in this PC world.......well only when it suits them eh? What a double shame for this woman and her Mom.......like I say to my kids....Sometimes life is not fair!

[98tls]

bet theres a few cops say the same thing eh..................

[Swoop]

There is no quota.

There is no quota.

There is no quota.

[rok-the-boat]

Shit - the system must be bloody stupid. Accidents happen - get real. Shit (again), all a smart copper has to do now to get his brownie points for promotion is to hang around a hospital and book people when they show up. I could do that - gis a job!

[spudchucka]

..the police would have to have evidence before a charge was laid.

The fact that the car left the road and slid down a huge cliff could be a clue.

[spudchucka]

Do they..........I know this is NZ but in the UK they use commonsense.........I mean in UK if you hit someone up the rear you don't get charged like you do here.....

They should, following too close is a real problem.

[spudchucka]

My point was that it was unlikely she was careless with her old dear in car....could have been another reason she lost control..........we are all human so I am sure the accident itself was enough of a lesson to learn by eh?

And if she was driving along yapping to the old dear instead of concentrating on her driving and subsequently drove off a cliff I guess that would have been considered careless?

None of you know what has or hasn't been disclosed in statements, neither do you know what evidence exists at the scene, (neither do I for that matter).

[spudchucka]

They also showed the young C@n$ who was biking to community service and beat an old lady up (82 years old) when he ran into her car and fell off his bike.Broken eye socket etc etc.
She is !@#@$ed and won't drive anymore.
He got two years,no doubt minus what he has done in remand minus parole,which means he will probably be out last week.

Go judicial system.

What a piece of shit he was.

[Squeak the Rat]

They should, following too close is a real problem.

Not many people get charged for following too closely UNLESS they have an nose to tail. If it's a serious problem then the focus should be on prevention.

[spudchucka]

Glad they have solved the important one and now can move on and deal with the seemingly trivial matters like the death of twin babies with no charges laid months later................

Detectives don't investigate traffic crashes, traffic cops don't investigate murder.

[spudchucka]

so if the driver and passenger had been killed, would the police be charging them with reckless drivering posthumously?

There would still be a full investigation but obviously nobody would be charged, the blame as to who caused the deaths would be determined in the coroners court.

[spudchucka]

Wonder what they charge the cop that crashed his car and then told everyone that it had been stolen with..........?

He was an ex cop and he's already been charged and convicted.

[The_Dover]

hey spud, ever thought about learning to use the "multi quote" facility of the forum?

or are you trying to inflate your post count?

on another note, if she has been stupid enough to incriminate herself in a statement saying that she was stuffing her face with roadkill whilst yapping to uncle mom then

[Swoop]

...or are you trying to inflate your post count?

Posts close together do not add to the total post count, so the multi-quote is a better option for keeping the place tidy and not using up spank's server space.