A judge has slammed Green Flag for refusing to help a stranded nursing student motorist 'because she wasn't parked on the hard shoulder' before she was killed when a truck hit her car.
The accident happened a few moments after the call. Unless they had a Star Trek style transporter they couldn't have got to her in time anyway...
'In my judgement, Green Flag should take it upon themselves to ring 999 to help the person because it was obvious that Mrs Dumbuya would have been panicking and wondering whether to stay or leave the vehicle. She would have been worried about crossing the motorway.'
Why the scathing remarks about Green Flag? Why should it be their responsibility, rather than the driver? Just because she was a nursing student, or because she was from an ethnic minority, two groups we are supposed to worship?
'It would be easy to wreak revenge on the defendant by jailing him but I rather suspect Mrs Dumbuya's family are not interested in vengeance.'
Bowers, 33, of Bamber Bridge, Preston, Lancashire, admitted causing death by careless driving and was sentenced to six months in jail, suspended for 12 months. He was also banned from driving for three years.
I guess he was of good charact...
Oh.
Dashcam analysis revealed Bowers, who had a previous conviction for drink-driving and driving without due care and attention from 2016, was travelling at 55 mph and had an unobstructed view of the Kia from about 150 to 175 metres away - but an accident report concluded he did not appreciate the Kia was stationary.
He initially denied wrongdoing but eventually pleaded guilty ahead of his trial 18 months later.
Sounds to me as if the judge was misdirecting the rightous anger he should have been feeling. And in a macabre postscript, the 'Mail's' lack of proofreading gives us this gem:
I think she knew...
Some people unfortunately need the bleedin' obvious spelling out to them. So the person on the phone at Green Flag should have at the very least told her to phone 999 immediately so that traffic could be managed.
ReplyDeleteI work in sales/support and when talking to customers obvious I have to cross the t's and dot the i's and explain every little detail to a customer in case it comes back to bite me.
Yes, it will take this long, any extra work means it will take longer, we can only do this specific thing and any extra work we will charge extra for... Obvious, but needs spelling out because... customers.