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Even if the metro had hit her, would it have like, done a lot?
 
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Bayum said:
Even if the metro had hit her, would it have like, done a lot?
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That's a bit of a silly comment. Newcastle Metro trains are built to heavy rail standards, as they share the same lines as normal (heavy) rail trains- so it's quite possibly the same effect as if a 150 hit a car - a mess (for the car).
 
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from the video, am I right in observing that on NEITHER side of the crossing is there an adjacent road leading in that direction? THis does appear to be pure, unfiltered idiocy.
 
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'WIMMIN DRIVERS EH!!!!!".....:oops:

There, someone had to say it...;)

Even worse looks she went "Bang Road"...:lol::lol:
 
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WOMEN DRIVERS ARE BAD ENOUGH BUT SHE WANTED TO DIE!!!!!
BEING SO STUPID SHE DESERVED WHAT SHE SHOULD HAVE GOT
Had the car been Mini Metro verses Newcastle light rapid transport thingy, she would have survived as a 150 has a 2 diesel engines and would weigh more than that tinny yellow :lol:thing
 
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700 metres. That's just short of half a mile. She should have her license revoked and NOT be retested. At 40yrs old she can't even go down the doddery fool path of defence. If a train driver did an equivalent (hard to imagine what) he would have his cards taken off him and be banned from driving trains ever again.

There can be no defence for this kind of frontier idiocy. But as always, our roads are open to anybody who thinks they fancy a go. If we're lucky, the wreckless person coming our way has bothered to take a test, have an MOT, have insurance and pay road tax. When this government stops treating roads as a tarmac conveyor belt of cash, maybe things can be done.

No doubt her license was reward for completing a set of easy tasks undertaken at impossibly slow speeds, whilst feeding the wheel and remebering a few road signs and some completely out of date stopping distances. The theory test doesn't make it much more rigourous but should we be surprised?
 
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Unbelieveable story - simply cannot understand the reasoning behind that. In my opinion the driver should be banned with immediate affect, due to the risk not only for herself but the passengers on any oncoming train - the consequences could have been - to be frank - dire.
 
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at 01:04 it appears that guys shoe gets taken off. Amazingly lucky it was only his shoe...! I hope he was caught <(
 
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lol stupid woman. How on Earth do you mistake the railway line for a road? She must have been drunk.
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There's a good chance as she failed to give a breath test at ve scene. Why do people think they can get away with this stuff? Obviously she won't be banged up for long because she was driving a Merc and not a Ford Escort. Just like the McCanns. Go out every night of your holiday to get pi$$ed, leave your kids in an UNLOCKED room you check on occasionally. If they weren't both Doctors, those twins would be in care now. Welcome to the classless society, just look at the MPs for proof of our class divide.
 
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Quoting the BBC story, this is key:
Alcoholic Karen Angus had downed wine and taken anti-depressants before she somehow turned on to the tracks at a Metro crossing in Fawdon, Newcastle.
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Now, whilst I don't wish to downplay the incident, full-blown alcoholism is a mental illness. This will be why she's got a "light" sentence- it will have been assessed that sending her straight to jail would not help anyone here- I bet that part of her licence (to remain free, and not go to jail) will be to receive help to quit the drinking.

However, I reckon there's a hint of truth in what mumrar says- what money does buy you is a good lawyer, who'll negotiate that sort of settlement. Whilst they do good work, lawyers available on Legal Aid are generally not likely to be as good.
 
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jopsuk said:
Quoting the BBC story, this is key:


Now, whilst I don't wish to downplay the incident, full-blown alcoholism is a mental illness. This will be why she's got a "light" sentence- it will have been assessed that sending her straight to jail would not help anyone here- I bet that part of her licence (to remain free, and not go to jail) will be to receive help to quit the drinking.

However, I reckon there's a hint of truth in what mumrar says- what money does buy you is a good lawyer, who'll negotiate that sort of settlement. Whilst they do good work, lawyers available on Legal Aid are generally not likely to be as good.
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I'm not even a lawyer but if I knew someone up for drink driving I'd turn their one off transgression into full blown alcoholism, it's the logical choice in our crooked society. Lawyers used to be provided to ensure a fair trial against the prosecution. Now it's to get everyone off everything possible regardless of guilt. Shockingly, guilt doesn't come in to it any longer.
 
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metrocammel said:
That's a bit of a silly comment. Newcastle Metro trains are built to heavy rail standards, as they share the same lines as normal (heavy) rail trains- so it's quite possibly the same effect as if a 150 hit a car - a mess (for the car).
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Hmmm, I don't think Tyne/Wear Metro vehicles are built to heavy rail standards. I believe by all accounts its all 1950's/60's German designed Tram stuff under a lightweight body with vintage 1500V DC power equipment.
Those Metro-Trams were originally never destined to share rails with proper trains, but now they do years later.
 
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This sort of thing happens all the time! I live by the bridge where the Croydon Tram flies over the West Croydon - Sutton NR line, which is just plain, unpaved track, and I have seen at least 4 cars stuck on the track there, including one which continued right up the incline almost to the top before stopping. I think once these dumb drivers make a mistake, they always think if they just go forward a bit further maybe they will miraculously get themselves out of trouble, but they just make it worse. The noise their cars make when they are being dragged backwards down the track by the recovery vehicles is something no motorist would ever like to hear!

p.s one of them was a London Taxi (so much for the knowledge)
 
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