Speeding drug driver avoids jail for killing cyclist
Harry Bennett, who was driving at up to 51mph in a 30mph zone when he struck 77-year-old Geoffrey Dean, was given a suspended sentence and banned from driving for three yearsA motorist who killed a cyclist while speeding at up to 51mph in a 30mph zone, and who was found to have traces of ketamine, cocaine, and alcohol in his system at the time of the fatal collision, has been handed a suspended prison sentence and banned from driving for three years, after a prosecutor described his standard of...
After drinking two bottles of beer at the barbecue, he left at 6pm, initially driving in the wrong direction, during which time he passed Mr Dean riding on the other side of the road. After turning his car to head north along Northam Road, CCTV footage captured Bennett accelerating over speed bumps above the road’s 30mph limit, and one witness said she saw the motorist speeding shortly before the collision.
> 88-year-old motorist avoids jail after causing the death of a cyclist who she hit “without noticing” Meanwhile, Judge David Evans said Bennett’s decision to drive at “excess speed” was the result of “arrogant over-confidence”. “As you admitted you were rushing to get home,” he said. “That is the decision that led to Mr Dean’s death. You were driving at greatly excessive speed for that stretch of road and for that bend.”
The family say they are struggling to understand what happened on the day he was killed, noting that he regularly cycled that route and was safety conscious. Regardless of the discussion on prison time and so on it should be a life ban for all at fault killer drivers with no chance whatsoever of appeal. Would still be a billion times lesser punishment than being killed or having a family member / friend killed.A three year driving ban is simply disgusting.
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