Great Journalism, MSN!

It's clearly the roundabout. After all, it can't possibly be the drivers who are misusing it, can it?

H/T: The Jannie via email

Must Have Been The Overcrowding That Upset It...

At around 12.40am on December 25, a car left the road and crashed into a tree in Beeches Avenue in Carshalton.

Two women who were in the car, both aged in their 20s, were taken to hospital for treatment.

Four other people – all occupants of the car – received treatment as well, and none of their injuries are serious.

Must have been a pretty big car. Usually, the police say what make. The fact they haven't makes me suspect it wasn't a six-seater... 

Seems there's a lot of it about:

The 22-year-old, of Helston, had been on her way back from Falmouth when the crash occurred.

She recalled: "I stopped in Tesco car park for a bit before I was heading home and came down the main street past Boo Koos and then waited for the lights to change.

"As the lights changed I headed in the direction of my home but when I came near the second turning my car fishtailed and I lost control.

"I wasn't going too fast as I had just came out of the traffic lights..."

Really? Hmmm.... 

A witness to the crash told Devon Live how he and his girlfriend's brother narrowly missed colliding with Robyn's car which was about two to three metres away when it crashed.

He recalled: "She beeped for us to move out of the way as a warning that she was going too fast and was going to lose control, but it all happened very quickly."

Whoops! 

Yes, It's A Balance...

...but it'd be nice if a vindictive State didn't have its thumb on the scales, wouldn't it?

A woman carer accused of killing a policeman and a grandmother in an horrific crash, walked free from court today after a jury cleared her of all charges.

And what did she do? Lead police on a 100mph chase? Mount the pavement and mow them down?

Neither. She simply turned right against traffic to enter another road, something hundreds of thousands of motorists do every day. As the jury must have been thinking.

Motorist Agne Jasulaitiene had been on trial for a week, accused of killing TV's Road Wars police hero James 'Dixie' Dixon and her friend, 91-year-old Gladys Goodwin, for whom she was caring.

However, a jury took less than an hour to decide that she was not guilty of the two charges of causing death by careless driving.

One has to wonder why on earth she was charged at all. But the key is in the term ''TV's Road Wars police hero'. Surely he couldn't have been at fault?

The jury heard that on December 5 2017, on her day off, Miss Jasulaitiene was driving Gladys home from a lunch in Slough, Berkshire, as part of a companion service and attempting to turn right from the A4 Bath Road into Blake's Lane, in Wargrave, Berkshire at just 13mph.

Father-to-be Pc Dixon, aged 39 years, was killed instantly when his police motorbike - which may have been travelling at twice the 50mph speed limit - hit the Toyota Aygo, overturning it.

Throughout the trial at Reading Crown Court, mother-of-two Agne Jasulaitiene strenuously denied ever seeing the motorcyclist who was on a training exercise with Thames Valley Police and agents from HMRC on the day of the accident.The jury heard the police officers were practising 'offensive surveillance' and were told by expert Anthony Hopkins that the 'covert' motorcycle had purposefully switched off its automatic lights.

Makes the decision to prosecute her even odder, doesn't it?

Prosecutor Ellie Fargin had argued if PC Dixon "had been driving carelessly", it did not "absolve the responsibility of the defendant". But the jury disagreed.

Perhaps they put themselves in her position, innocently driving along when they suddenly become an unwitting part of a lethal 'training exercise'. And they, or their family member, winds up dead.

I wonder if the judge, in his summing up, was wondering the same?

Judge Paul Dugdale thanked the jury for their service, adding: 'You have come into this room without any idea what case you are going to try. Suddenly a very emotional case was place upon your shoulders to try, that is the big burden.

'These cases never bring any closure to the family. The reality is sometimes in life accidents happen. We cannot have a fully trained police force when we you need it, without training. The two cannot sit side-by-side and inevitably there is a degree of risk.

'An officer was tragically killed along with a member of the public when the police were carrying out there (sic) duties. Nobody should lose sight of that. Sometimes we are so keen to find blame, sometimes accidents just happen, it is best to look at it that way.'

The police and CPS are unrepentant. As we have come to expect.

Following the jury's acquittal of the woman accused of killing Pc Dixon, his Assistant Chief Constable, Tim De Meyer said: 'During the trial we heard more detail about the incident in Wargrave in December 2017. The experts in the trial could not be sure of the exact speed at which Pc Dixon was travelling. Furthermore, we cannot speculate on Pc Dixon's reason for travelling at a particular speed.'

We can. We must.

And we should ensure that never again will the vindictive State agents be allowed to pursue an innocent victim through the courts to try to salve their consciences, or the reputation of their 'advanced drivers'. 

Must Have Had A Death Wish...

A young father lies in intensive care fighting for life following a “devastating” car crash in which two of his close friends were killed.

Yousif Al-Mussawi, 26, from Maida Vale, was at the wheel of the BMW...

Hmmm....

...when it veered off a dual-carriageway and hit a tree.

Damn! I knew those self-driving cars would be a menace!