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SENTENCE IS SO UNFAIR
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I have just read your article in Industry News concerning driver Edward Smyth, who has been jailed for 18 months for dangerous driving (CM17-23 July).
Taking this article on face value only, I find it absolutely outrageous that Mr Smyth should receive any sort ofjail sentence! Are we talking about justice here, or vengeance, or baying to the crowd, or what?
There is no point in putting this man in prison, especially so as it appears he was in shock and therefore remorseful, had taken his regulation breaks, and was not on his mobile, etc.
I'm not saying he should get away with it, for there are obviously responsibilities that go with driving large heavy vehicles, but for goodness sake, he has lost his job and been banned from his trade for three years!
He should perhaps also pay his debt in some more humane manner or sensible community service. Donating part of his salary to the bereaved would be far more useful.
We appear to incarcerate drivers simply for their 'bad luck' through perhaps an unexplained lack of concentration, whilst those really nasty people who intend harm walk free, simply because they do not actually commit serious harm or death that was premeditated—by their 'good luck', if you like.
J H Roberts Kenilworth Warwickshire